# The Hooters. Great band from the eighties. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 15, 2014, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532 "2014-09-15T03:55:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532/21 "2014-09-15T15:40:27Z")
I loved _ **Nervous Night** _, their breakthrough album, and thought thir followup, _ **One Way Home** _, was even better. But not too many people agreed with me about _ **One Way Home** _, and they fell off the face of the Earth shortly after that one. They toured as the opening act for Bryan Adams one year, and they blew Bryan off the stage. Tha twas a band I always thought would be (and should have been) a lot bigger. I never liked Arthur Lee or Love, but I really liked the Hooters’ cover of “She Comes in Colors.” ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532/22 "2014-09-15T15:45:31Z")
> [@Gordon\_Urquhart](#): > > “One-hit wonders” isn’t quite accurate: “Day By Day” hit #18 on Billboard’s Hot 100, “And We Danced” hit #21, and “All You Zombies” hit #58 (all were from the 1985 album “Nervous Night,” which was definitely their biggest). > > “Johnny B” (which I heard on the radio quite a lot, but it might have been the local college station) and “Satellite,” which were both from the 1987 album “One Way Home,” each hit #61. That same college station definitely played a lot from “Nervous Night” as well (I know, because I played a lot of Hooters music during my shows). > > So Casey Kasem would’ve played “Day By Day” and “And We Danced” on _American Top 40_, at least. Oh, I agree; I don’t use the term literally. I have several bands with two songs on my “One Hit Wonders” playlist. The point is, it is bands that had brief heydays in the eighties and then were never heard from again. Bands like Re-Flex, Wang Chung, Plimsouls, etc. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532/23 "2014-09-15T15:51:53Z")
Of course, Eric Bazlilian wrote Joan Osborne’s hit “One of Us” and Rob Hyman wrote Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors,” so they’re not waiting tables or driving cabs today. They’re doing all right! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532/24 "2014-09-15T15:59:26Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > Bob Geldorf didn’t want them at Live Aid. True. Larry Magid, the promoter on the Philly concert, insisted they be on the bill. I liked this nugget from the [Live Aid write-up on Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Aid#Criticisms_and_controversies): > [@](#): > > Geldof let his feelings be known during an interview for Rolling Stone saying: “Who the fuck are The Hooters?” The Hooters did get their revenge in December 2004, when Geldof appeared on the bill with the Hooters in Germany as their opening act. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532/25 "2014-09-15T16:38:53Z")
Sadly, putting the band’s name in YouTube yields far more results related to the, er, restaurant. But it did bring back [this memory](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVXjBMK3EkI). ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532/26 "2014-09-15T16:49:15Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > I loved _ **Nervous Night** _, their breakthrough album, and thought thir followup, _ **One Way Home** _, was even better. > > But not too many people agreed with me about _ **One Way Home** _, and they fell off the face of the Earth shortly after that one. I agree; One Way Home is a great album (that holds up pretty well, IMHO). I listen to it fairly regularly. It’s a very cool mix of Americana and 80s rock production values. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532/27 "2014-09-15T16:55:52Z")
Their first album was an independent release called Amore, I think it was just released in the Philadelphia area. I like it much more than Nervous Night. A few of the Amore tracks made it to Nervous Night, including All You Zombies, but I like the Amore version better. Something about the electronic-y reggae beat in the later version turned me off. They used to play everywhere they could in those days, including my high school gymnasium. That’s where I first heard and fell in love with And We Danced. And we did. ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532/28 "2014-09-15T17:53:29Z")
They really were a solid band. I still remember hearing “All You Zombies” for the first time and loving it. And I’d completely forgotten about “Johnny B” until this thread… I like that song a lot. I’ve always wondered if they would’ve had more success if they hadn’t had such a terrible band name. And yes, I know the origin of the name - it’s still a lousy name. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532/29 "2014-09-15T18:46:56Z")
> [@Anamorphic](#): > > And yes, I know the origin of the name I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532/30 "2014-09-15T19:28:13Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > I don’t. From Wikipedia: _They took their name from a nickname for the melodica,[1] a type of keyboard harmonica which is German in origin and created by Hohner after a friend of Eric Bazilian lent Rob Hyman a Hohner model Piano-36 which was used on their recordings and never returned to the friend._ I saw them at Live Aid and would definitely put them in the top ten performers that day. Many of the groups just couldn’t find a groove but The Hooters rocked (it probably helped having the home field advantage at JFK). ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532/31 "2014-09-15T20:00:06Z")
Oh man, I really loved _[Johnny B](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKy4riaOBMk)_ when it came out. Haven’t heard it in 25 years, so thanks for the reminder. Doesn’t quite hold up to my memory of it, but it’s solid. _And We Danced_, of course, is still killer. ---
**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532/32 "2014-09-15T20:38:23Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > They were pretty successful in the mid late 80’s with lots of radio and MTV airplay. I grew up in rural Alabama and I had their first album (cassette) and listened to it a lot when I was in high school. That album sold over 2 million copies and had 3 Top 40 hits. I first heard about them from an Australian exchange student who stayed with my family in 1986. ---
**Author:** ![Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eugene_of_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532/33 "2014-09-15T22:12:54Z")
Loved The Hooters. I recall they were under-appreciated and I could never figure it. Even lots of rocker friends were in the dark. “Who?” Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532/34 "2014-09-16T19:05:20Z")
I don’t know if they intended the double-entendre in the name, but the band came to the scene right about the time in my life (and my classmates’) that “hooters” = “boobs” (giggle). One girl in our class, well-endowed for a 16 year old (actually, well-endowed for a 30 year old) proudly wore her Levis jean jacket every day with a “Hooters” bumper sticker on the back of it. Which naturally prompted regular greetings of “Nice hooters, Kris!” as we walked down the hall in school. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532/35 "2014-09-16T20:48:30Z")
Wow I just flashed back to college with that one. Pretty boys with lots of hair, sigh. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532/36 "2014-09-17T00:05:04Z")
Glad to see so many others remember and appreciate the band! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532/37 "2014-09-17T03:45:25Z")
Hooters are one of the few Philadelphia Rock Bands that actually got somewhere, although to hear most Philadelphians (including me) you would think they were never anything but local. Philly produced a lot of underground, oddball stuff in the 80s (think Dead Milkmen) and probably did better on the Hip-Hop & Rap scenes but the Hooters were pretty much the only real success that weren’t one hit wonders. I recall that the city had high hopes for Robert Hazard and the Heroes, but they imploded early on, allegedly because Hazard got drunk and signed a record deal without consulting the rest of the band. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532/38 "2014-09-17T03:56:59Z")
California girl here. Had at least 2 albums on vinyl :eek: and wore them out. Now I must go replace! Awesome group. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532/39 "2014-09-17T07:16:07Z")
…skimming down the thread all the youtube links are marked as “read” which felt kinda strange until I clicked the link and started bopping my head up and down: these are some of my favourite songs. And I didn’t even really know the name of the band who sung them. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532/40 "2014-09-19T19:55:32Z")
I still have One Way Home squirrelled away in my tape collection. One of my favourite albums along with REM’s Life’s Rich Pageant. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hooters-great-band-from-the-eighties/698532.md?page=3)