In 1989, Dolly Parton released her version of the Easter classic ‘He’s Alive’. It was the third single released from her album ‘White Limozeen’. Here’s Dolly performing the song live at the 1990 CMA Awards.
Toto – ‘Rosanna’ Music Video
Rosanna was a huge hit for Toto in 1982 when it peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, and was a top ten hit on the Billboard Mainstream Rock charts as well. They would score their first and only number one hit on the Hot 100 charts with ‘Africa’ the same year.
Dokken – ‘Into The Fire’ Official Music Video
Into the Fire was the first single released from Dokken’s 1984 album Tooth and Nail. The follow up singles were just as awesome: Alone Again and Just Got Lucky!
Rock Star ‘Blood Polution’ Fall Scene With Mark Wahlberg
Last night, we featured the audition scene from the movie ‘Rock Star’. Tonight, here’s our second favorite scene from the movie. It’s Wahlberg performing for the first time with the band for the song ‘Blood Polution’, and he turns a nasty fall into the songs calling card!
‘Rock Star’ Audition Scene With Mark Wahlberg – ‘We All Die Young’
Foreigner – ‘Urgent’ Official Music Video
Warrant – ‘Big Talk’ Music Video
Dokken – ‘Alone Again’ Music Video
‘Alone Again’ was Dokken’s first top 20 rock single when it peaked at #20 on the Billboard rock charts in 1984. It was also their first single on the Hot 100 charts peaking at #64. For some unknown reason, Dokken were overlooked on the charts throughout their career even though they were arguably one of the best hard rock bands of the 80s era!
The Power Station – ‘Get It On (Bang A Gong)’ Music Video
The Power Station was an ’80s supergroup featuring Robert Palmer, Tony Thompson from Chic, and John and Andy Taylor from Duran Duran. ‘Get It On (Bang A Gong) was the second single released from their 1985 self-titled album, and it was their second top ten single in the U.S. after the first single ‘Some Like It Hot’!
Eddie Money – ‘Walk On Water’ Music Video
Great White – ‘Rock Me’ Official Music Video
Winger – ‘Seventeen’ Official Music Video
Every Poison Music Video From The Beginning In 1986
We love 80’s rock music, and one of our favorite bands is Poison. Bret, C.C., Bobby and Rikki are still going strong today, so we thought it would be fun to look back at every music video they’ve produced starting in 1986 with ‘Cry Tough’:
1986
Cry Tough
1987
Talk Dirty To Me
I Want Action
I Won’t Forget You
1988
Nothin’ But A Good Time
Fallen Angel
Every Rose Has Its Thorn
1989
Your Mama Don’t Dance
Good Love (Not official video – MTV Unplugged)
1990
Unskinny Bop
Something To Believe In
Ride The Wind
1991
Life Goes On
(Flesh & Blood) Sacrifice
1992
So Tell Me Why
1993
Stand
Until You Suffer Some (Fire & Ice)
2000
Power To The People
2002
Squeeze Box (Not official video but live performance on TV)
2006
We’re An American Band
2007
What I Like About You
Ratt – ‘I Want A Woman’ Music Video
Kylie Minogue – ‘Locomotion’ Music Video
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Joan Jett
Katrina & The Waves – ‘Walking On Sunshine’ Music Video
‘Walking on Sunshine’ was a top ten hit for Katrina and the Waves back in 1985. The song has been kept alive for years by advertisers who have used the song in their ads. Brilliantly, Katrina and the Waves kept the publishing rights and the royalties that usually go to the songwriter, and reportedly, the song has earned over $1 million per year for the ten years ending in 2010.
And, it continues to earn royalties as it can still be heard on the radio and in commercials today. Advertisers typically pay between $150,000 – $200,000 per year to use the song. Now that is the way to capitalize on your one big hit!
Eurythmics – ‘Here Comes The Rain Again’ Music Video
Journey – ‘I’ll Be Alright Without You’ Music Video
The Cult – ‘Love Removal Machine’ Music Video
Cinderella – ‘The Last Mile’ Music Video
Cinderella’s 1988 ‘Long Cold Winter’ album is one of the best hard rock albums of the entire decade of the 80s (in our honest opinion)! The album spawned four awesome singles including ‘Gypsy Road’, ‘Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)’, ‘Coming Home’ and this one, ‘The Last Mile’.
For some unknown reason, they never achieved the chart success they should have with ‘The Last Mile’ peaking at number 18 on the rock charts. Even more baffling is their rock ballad, ‘Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)’, which is one of the greatest songs from the 80s didn’t even make it into the top 10 on the Hot 100 charts, peaking at #12.
We’re here to give them the recognition they deserve because in our opinion, they’re one of the best rock bands of the 80s and 90s!
Def Leppard – ‘Hello America’ Videos from 1980
If you’re a fan of good ole rock n’ roll, then Def Leppard’s 1980 On Through the Night album has to be one of your favorites. Hello America was the third single released from the album, and it was their first top 50 hit in the UK! They would score their first number one rock hits in America just three short years later with Photograph and Rock of Ages!
Bret Michaels Discusses What Really Happened Behind the Scenes of ‘Rock of Love’
Rod Stewart’s Music Video for ‘Forever Young’
Forever Young was a top 20 hit for Rod Stewart in 1988. It was the second single released from his Out of Order CD.
Ever wonder what the little curtly red-headed kid looks like now? Here you go. His name is Alex Zuckerman, and in addition to this video, he appeared in a few movies in the early ’90s: Hook, Blank Check, and The Adventures of Huck Finn.
Belinda Carlisle – ‘Mad About You’ Music Video
Chicago – ‘Look Away’ – Official Music Video – 1989’s Number One Song
Chicago released their first single all the way back in July 1969, and 20 years later, they scored their largest selling single of all time with 1989’s ‘Look Away’. ‘Look Away’ was the number one song on the 1989 year-end Billboard Hot 100 chart even though it never held the #1 spot on the charts in 1989. It had hit number one for two weeks from December 4-17, 1988.
This was also Chicago’s only number one single following Peter Cetera’s departure from the band in 1985.
Salt-N-Pepa – ‘Push It’ Official Music Video
In 1986, Salt-N-Pepa released their debut album Hot, Cool & Vicious, and the 4th single, Push It became their first top 20 hit, and over 30 years later, it is still one of the most popular hip hop songs ever recorded!
“Push It” Lyrics:
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Oooh, baby, baby
Baby, baby
Oooh, baby, baby
Baby, baby
Get up on this!
Ow! Baby!
Salt and Pepa’s here!
(Now wait a minute, y’all
This dance ain’t for everybody
Only the sexy people
So all you fly mothers, get on out there and dance
Dance, I said!)
Salt and Pepa’s here, and we’re in effect
Want you to push it, babe
Coolin’ by day then at night working up a sweat
C’mon girls, let’s go show the guys that we know
How to become number one in a hot party show
Now push it
Ah, push it – push it good
Ah, push it – push it real good
Ah, push it – push it good
Ah, push it – p-push it real good
Hey! Ow!
Push it good!
Oooh, baby, baby
Baby, baby
Oooh, baby, baby
Baby, baby
Push it good
Push it real good
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Yo, yo, yo, yo, baby-pop
Yeah, you come here, gimme a kiss
Better make it fast or else I’m gonna get pissed
Can’t you hear the music’s pumpin’ hard like I wish you would?
Now push it
Push it good
Push it real good
Push it good
P-push it real good
Ah, push it
Get up on this!
Boy, you really got me going
You got me so I don’t know what I’m doing
Ah, push it
Phil Collins Greatest Hits
As a solo artist, Phil Collins has released eight studio albums, 38 music videos, and 45 singles. He’s a Grammy-winning solo artist and has sold over 150 million records worldwide. In the 80’s, he scored seven solo number one songs as well! Enjoy some of Phil Collins’ greatest hits!
1. Another Day in Paradise 0:00
2. True Colors 5:22
3. Easy Lover 9:30
4. You Can’t Hurry Love 14.33
5. Two Hearts 17:28
6. I Wish It Would Rain Down 20:53
7. Against All Odds 26:22
8. Something Happened on the Way to Heaven 29:45
9. Separate Lives 34:37
10. Both Sides of the Story 38:43
11. One More Night 45:21
12. Sussudio 50:13
13. Dance into the Light 54:38
14. A Groovy Kind of Love 59:01
15. In the Air Tonight 1:03:08
16. Take Me Home 1:07:57
17. You Will Be In My Heart 1:13:11
18. Strangers Like Me 1:17:25
19. Look Through My Eyes 1:20:26
20. No Way Out 1:24:25
21. Son Of Man 1:27:03
22. Wilderness Of Danger And Beauty 1:29:49
23. All Of My Life 1:32:03
24. Transformation 1:35:17
Huey Lewis and the News – ‘The Power Of Love’ – Number One Song From 1985
‘The Power of Love’ was Huey Lewis and the News‘ first number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. It was number one on the charts for two weeks from August 18-31, 1985. It also hit number one on the Billboard Rock charts and remains one of their most remembered songs from the 80s!
Tommy Tutone – ‘867-5309/Jenny’ – Official Music Video
Tommy Tutone is and will forever be remembered for his number one rock hit ‘867-5309/Jenny’ from 1981. It was the first single from his 1981 album ‘Tommy Tutone 2’.
For years, Tutone maintained that the number was real and it was a girl he knew named Jenny. He used to say he wrote the number on a bathroom wall and he and Jenny laughed about it for years. However, this was actually not true.
In June 2004, co-writer Alex call talked about the true origins of the song during an interview with Songfacts:
Despite all the mythology to the contrary, I actually just came up with the ‘Jenny,’ and the telephone number and the music and all that just sitting in my backyard. There was no Jenny. I don’t know where the number came from, I was just trying to write a 4-chord Rock song and it just kind of came out. This was back in 1981 when I wrote it, and I had at the time a little squirrel-powered 4-track in this industrial yard in California, and I went up there and made a tape of it. I had the guitar lick, I had the name and number, but I didn’t know what the song was about. This buddy of mine, Jim Keller, who’s the co-writer, was the lead guitar player in Tommy Tutone. He stopped by that afternoon and he said, ‘Al, it’s a girl’s number on a bathroom wall,’ and we had a good laugh. I said, ‘That’s exactly right, that’s exactly what it is.’
Tommy Tutone’s been using the story for years that there was a Jenny and she ran a recording studio and so forth. It makes a better story but it’s not true. That sounds a lot better than I made it up under a plum tree in my backyard.
I had the thing recorded. I had the name and number, and they were in the same spots, ‘Jenny… 867-5309.’ I had all that going, but I had a blind spot in the creative process, I didn’t realize it would be a girl’s number on a bathroom wall. When Jim showed up, we wrote the verses in 15 or 20 minutes, they were just obvious. It was just a fun thing, we never thought it would get cut. In fact, even after Tommy Tutone made the record and ‘867-5309’ got on the air, it really didn’t have a lot of promotion to begin with, but it was one of those songs that got a lot of requests and stayed on the charts. It was on the charts for 40 weeks.
I’ve met a few Jennys who’ve said, “Oh, you’re the guy who ruined my high school years.” But for the most part, Jennys are happy to have the song.