the catchiest song of the 80s...Some songs are earworms that crawl into your brain and are so annoying you beg for mercy. Some are great, but they get so overplayed you tire of them and hope you never hear them again. But every once in a while, a song is so catchy and satisfying you're on cloud 9 when they get stuck in your head because even if you hear them 100 times, you never get sick of them… Today we celebrate those treasures as we travel back to the 80s to capture those perfect songs and the stories behind them, including the Cheers theme song that puts a lump in our throats every time because it sounds like home or a bygone era. Plus the Frankie Goes to Hollywood song Relax, that was so catchy and dangerous a DJ banned it in the middle of the first time it was played on the radio. Plus the cover song Cum On Feel the Noize that took Quiet Riot and metal to the top of the charts... but the singer behind it ruined his career in one dumb interview.…. And an otherworldly scream that saved a rock band’s career.
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Hey Music junkies professor of rock always here to celebrate the greatest songs and the greatest artists of all time . If you can still remember the smell of the Blockbuster video store when you went a scoped out movies. you’ll dig this channel of deep musical nostalgia. Make sure to like share and comment to keep this channel alive This episode of Professor of Rock is a Part 2 of a feature we did on Catchy Songs from the 80s it’s called ear worm. but i got so many comments on our last list of all the other songs that should’ve made it in so here are 8 more from the 80s. . We’re gonna focus on how these infectious hooks are more than just a snappy tune. They have a substance lyrically, sonically, and even historically. and we are elated when they get stuck in our head because one listen take us back to those glorious moments of a simpler time.
Let’s start off with a spotlight on a piece of music that is like your favorite home cooked meal. It’s one of those songs that can take your from soberness to tears in a few seconds.it Puts a lump in our throats and a tear in our eye. at #8 It’s “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” the theme from Cheers:Long before anyone raised a pint at the fictional Boston pub Cheers, songwriter Gary Portnoy and lyricist Judy Hart-Angelo were working on a Broadway-bound musical called Preppies, where their big opening number was titled “People Like Us.” The song had a heartwarming pulse, and that familiar, late-night ache, until someone noticed it had already been picked up by the wrong people:An NBC sitcom, Cheers, was in the works, and a demo of the theme from Preppies began making its way toward the creators of the sitcom.
The producer of Preppies was not smitten by the idea of the Preppies theme being used by a TV show, So.. he blocked Paramount from using it, at least not without starting over. And so Portnoy and Hart-Angelo were forced into the kind of creative scramble, torn between the Broadway musical and a new TV show: Portnoy & Hart-Angelo tried and tried to rewrite their song to please both masters. Four or five theme ideas were pitched, rewritten, rejected. Draft after draft came back with the same verdict: close, but not quite there. What they needed wasn’t just a good melody, they needed to take the viewer inside a friendly barroom atmosphere, and capture a melancholy glow, a feeling that made you think: this is a place where the world goes away when you step inside: The early versions of “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” were almost comically specific—personal details that felt like they belonged to a single neighborhood, not an entire audience.
Producers asked them to widen the lens—to make it universal enough for anyone, anywhere, to feel seen. So the song was reshaped into the warm, bittersweet classic we now know: not about one city, but about the joyful comfort of belonging. Gary Portnoy recorded the original demo himself. When the show moved forward, producers made a bold choice: they kept Portnoy’s vocals, opting not to hire a famous singer. Cheers
