looool
― game of crones (La Lechera), Friday, 18 May 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
You know I realize we keep quoting from the Wikipedia page but the slow burn tautology here:
The story behind "Into the Night" charting twice is this: In 1989, KZZP, a radio station in Arizona, ran a segment titled "Where Are They Now?" The most popular question was "Whatever happened to the guy who sang 'Into the Night'?" Scott Shannon, then program director for Pirate Radio in Los Angeles, added "Into the Night" to its playlist. Radio stations across the country followed suit and "Into the Night" was once again a hit.Mardones was 33 years old when the song became a hit for the first time and he still lives quite well on the royalties received from this song that was also a hit in 1989.
Mardones was 33 years old when the song became a hit for the first time and he still lives quite well on the royalties received from this song that was also a hit in 1989.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
BTW, the opening fifteen seconds of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM6Gox5Ynu8
I mean, the rest of it as well, of course. Especially when you hear the first use of the title.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
modern english had the same thing happen down to the rerecording for new label like a year later w/ 'i melt w/ you', though there it didn't chart either time nearly as high as benny did both times w/ 'if i could fly'. i'm trying to think of other similar instances this has happened w/ us charts/radio, i'm sure in the uk where old songs rechart all the time it's not so rare.
― balls, Friday, 18 May 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
The cowriter of "Into the Night" has his own rep:
Robert Tepper is an American singer, best known for his hit song "No Easy Way Out" from the Rocky IV motion picture soundtrack.Born in Bayonne, New Jersey, Tepper moved to New York where he became a staff writer. He paired up with fellow singer Benny Mardones, and together they wrote Mardones' hit ballad "Into the Night," which earned them a Grammy Awards nomination.In 1985, Tepper signed with Scotti Brothers and moved to Los Angeles. Actor/director Sylvester Stallone was taken with Tepper's song "No Easy Way Out," which subsequently led to its inclusion in the movie Rocky IV. "No Easy Way Out" climbed into the Top 40, reaching #22 on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1986, and momentarily putting Tepper in the public eye. Several European labels, including Ministry of Sound, released "No Easy Way Out" with their own dance versions, and the hard rock group Bullet For My Valentine also recorded the song in 2008. In 1986, one year after "Rocky IV" another song from the album "no easy way out" called "angel of the city" became the main song of Stallone´s film "Cobra". With "Angel of the city" Tepper was not as successful as with "no easy way out"; the movie "Cobra" was not a hit. Tepper released two solo albums for Scotti Bros. Records but both albums received little promotion from the label. Also in 1986 he co-wrote the single "Le Bel Age" for Pat Benatar with peaked at #54 on the Billboard charts. He went on to join the classic hard rock group "Iron Butterfly" for a few years. His third solo album No Rest For The Wounded Heart was released exclusively in Europe in 1996 on the MTM Music label.In 2009, Sony/BMG released his first two albums digitally.In recent years he ventured into writing music for television and film, and collaborated on a musical. There are plans for his fourth solo album to be released in 2011.[dated info] The music will be a departure from the big rock sound of the 1980s and has been described as "acoustic, singer/songwriter with an electric tinge."In 2012 he released his fourth solo album New Life Story.
Born in Bayonne, New Jersey, Tepper moved to New York where he became a staff writer. He paired up with fellow singer Benny Mardones, and together they wrote Mardones' hit ballad "Into the Night," which earned them a Grammy Awards nomination.
In 1985, Tepper signed with Scotti Brothers and moved to Los Angeles. Actor/director Sylvester Stallone was taken with Tepper's song "No Easy Way Out," which subsequently led to its inclusion in the movie Rocky IV. "No Easy Way Out" climbed into the Top 40, reaching #22 on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1986, and momentarily putting Tepper in the public eye. Several European labels, including Ministry of Sound, released "No Easy Way Out" with their own dance versions, and the hard rock group Bullet For My Valentine also recorded the song in 2008. In 1986, one year after "Rocky IV" another song from the album "no easy way out" called "angel of the city" became the main song of Stallone´s film "Cobra". With "Angel of the city" Tepper was not as successful as with "no easy way out"; the movie "Cobra" was not a hit. Tepper released two solo albums for Scotti Bros. Records but both albums received little promotion from the label. Also in 1986 he co-wrote the single "Le Bel Age" for Pat Benatar with peaked at #54 on the Billboard charts. He went on to join the classic hard rock group "Iron Butterfly" for a few years. His third solo album No Rest For The Wounded Heart was released exclusively in Europe in 1996 on the MTM Music label.
In 2009, Sony/BMG released his first two albums digitally.
In recent years he ventured into writing music for television and film, and collaborated on a musical. There are plans for his fourth solo album to be released in 2011.[dated info] The music will be a departure from the big rock sound of the 1980s and has been described as "acoustic, singer/songwriter with an electric tinge."
In 2012 he released his fourth solo album New Life Story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgohFX9VlJ8
Oh did I mention the Solid Gold appearance?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTRBueh2j6w
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
I was too young to open my legs the first time but this got, like, blanket airplay in the late spring and early summer of '89 on Miami's Y-100. The Gruesome Twosome used to be this and NKOTB's "I'll Be Loving You Forever," with which it and "Into The Night" share a, shall we say, constituency.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 May 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
Well now I'm imagining Benny singing that to Donnie Wahlberg and thanks for nothing, Alfred.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
He's just sixteen years oldWhatever the hellDude said.
boy my dog does NOT like 'she's so french'
― balls, Friday, 18 May 2012 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
le woof!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 May 2012 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
Your dog has the right damn idea.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
My kid begged me to turn it off. She had a point. xp
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, 18 May 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
she's just three years oldtwenty one indog years
― balls, Friday, 18 May 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
Another Tepper cowrite from Never Run Never Hide. Comparatively saner/duller, just.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9wFHO-1_G0
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
have you been listening to this album all afternoon? Brave man.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 May 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
Hey, it beats Medicine.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, 18 May 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
It's that boring at work.
"Crazy Boy"! Cowritten by the "She's So French" cowriter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oriuPKe-6T8
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
wow B+ from xgau
― balls, Friday, 18 May 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
xpost -- That cowriter, BTW, ALSO has his own rep -- I give you D. L. Byron, aka David Leigh Byron, from his 1980 album This Day and Age:
http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-2936524-1323812317.jpeg
"Listen to the Heartbeat"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjzE0AANHJY
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
Okay you have to c/p the full review there.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
Back to Benny -- "Hold Me Down" -- and quite the opening scream there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q98JJsnafYQ
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
man who originated this lou gramm/steve perry rock vocal style? paul rodgers?
― balls, Friday, 18 May 2012 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
Was wondering that. I've heard Rodgers be credited/blamed for it before so I think you're right. Before that...who was Free's lead vocalist?
And the next song on Benny's album was "American Bandstand" -- so no points in guessing where he ended up playing it once:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWtR1DaOedA
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
lol jk about xgau
― balls, Friday, 18 May 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
paul rodgers was free's vocalist! i think
Ah well, that makes sense then, doesn't it! :-D
"Hey Baby"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWS9is-v8a0
"Hometown Girls"! Almost properly new wave there at the start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN4kql72WHg
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
And finally, yes, "Too Young"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDCuHYO1r8w
re "Hey Baby" -- that's not the Bruce Channel classic is it
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 May 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
Oh Jesus Christ, there's a FOURTH version of "Into the Night"...
ACOUSTIC!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZBbcrcRgMA
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
xpost - O FUCK YOU
― balls, Friday, 18 May 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
I'm waiting for the dubstep version.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, 18 May 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
That "She's So French" intro is just BEGGING to be sampled.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 18 May 2012 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
btw spotify does have several benny albums, none of which are never run never hide.
― balls, Friday, 18 May 2012 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
"listen to the hearbeat" is one of the worst things i've ever heard
― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Friday, 18 May 2012 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
haha i am so glad i started this
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 18 May 2012 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
i had visions of it being one of those sad little polls with six posts and two votes, but you came through, ilm. you came through.
pederasts and 80s mullets, bringing us together as always.
I have this habit of really babbling when I watch the lil one by myself...she was yelling because she wanted more bananas and I wasn't cutting them fast enough...I caught myself saying - outloud - ” Hold your horses there Benny Mardones”
― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 May 2012 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
you were a fool separating her from her banana
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 18 May 2012 23:23 (eleven years ago) link
lmao i can't believe robert tepper starred in and directed the room under a pseudonym!
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 May 2012 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
If this thread has achieved nothing else, I doubt that I'll ever again lump Benny Mardones in with the yacht rock crowd.
― Ninja Rap (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 May 2012 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
as Ned and strongo pointed otu, Mardones is closer to the Bad Company-Michael Bolton crowd anyway.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 May 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, this was never really apparent to me on the basis of the one creepy Mardones song I'd ever heard before this thread.
― Ninja Rap (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 May 2012 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
Richard Marx owes a lot to these dudes.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Saturday, 19 May 2012 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
Richard Marx's mullet owes a lot to these dudes' mullets.
― Ninja Rap (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 19 May 2012 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
They paved the way for parties in the back.
― Ninja Rap (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 19 May 2012 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
Richard Marx was a pop guy; he worked for Lionel Richie and Madonna.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 May 2012 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
to think i genuinely used to like music
― dell (del), Saturday, 19 May 2012 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
never thought i would be able to say "i hate ned raggett" but everything is different now
― dell (del), Saturday, 19 May 2012 00:52 (eleven years ago) link