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Okay, music fans, welcome back.
It's Dave.
It's the Real Music Observer, observing real
music in real time for real people [N] just like you right there, [F#] just like me right here.
38 Special.
Yep, the music industry's war on 38 Special.
Now, when I do this provocative
[E] title, it is to call attention to the fact that radio, through focus testing and corporate
know-it-all type folks at these big mega radio stations, these iHeartRadio conglomerates,
Cumulus Media, whatever it is out there, [E] Clear Channel.
I know one [N] buys out another and one
doesn't exist anymore.
I haven't kept up with all the buyouts, but to me, it's all the same.
This is what we want you to hear, so tune in for the songs that what we're telling [F#] you
to listen to.
38 Special has been boiled down to probably two or three songs.
Obviously,
Hold On Loosely, a lot of people think, I'm serious, a lot of people, especially younger
people today, think Hold On Loosely is 38 Special's only hit song.
Like they're a one-hit
wonder band from the South.
And boy, they scored big [N] with that one.
What a great, they're
like the Tommy Teutone of the South, right?
Wrong.
It's just, okay, but I'll give radio
two more songs.
So Caught Up In You is maybe the second tune, or Caught Up In You is the
correct title.
And Second Chance, which gets on the adult contemporary stations, featuring
the vocal stylings of the great Max Carl, who took over for Don Barnes, who at that
point had gotten really sick of touring and [A] needed a break, and they recruited a guy who
had his own mojo, a different style, but still, they were able to keep going.
Let me give
you a list of songs, and this is an abbreviated list.
These are the ones [N] that I used to hear
on the radio that I don't hear anymore.
If I'd Been The One, Back Where You Belong, Rockin'
Into The Night, which was the big one.
Now, on occasion, I might hear Rockin' Into The
Night on the radio, but it's got to be a really good classic rock station with a little deeper,
as far as album cuts go.
Like they need to go a little deeper, and apparently, Rockin'
Into The Night nowadays is [Em] a deep cut.
Fantasy Girl.
Look, the Wild Eyed Southern Boys album,
right up there with my High Infidelity and my Journey's Escape and 4 and [C#] a 4 and Sticks
Paradise Theater.
I had that album cover.
I had to hide from my mom because of the girl with the
shorts, even though it was [E] like a painting or a drawing or a cartoon kind of thing.
I had,
you know, like, woo, this is way out [G] there.
This is risque.
I'm going to get in trouble.
Had the
album.
Love that album cover.
[N] Love the music.
It was just terrific.
And while we're on the topic,
the title track, Wild Eyed Southern Boys, featuring a vocal performance by both Donny
Van Zant and Don Barnes.
So that's pretty cool.
Chain Lightning.
Oh, man.
When's the last time
you've heard Chain Lightning on the radio, or Chain Lightning as it's spelled?
The thunderstorm
intro, that killer guitar riff.
It's just the drama, the power in the song.
That was your late
night 38 special.
You know, that was it.
That was the tune driving down the road.
You Keep Running
Away.
Another terrific album track that was on at least one or two KTEL albums back in the early
80s.
I haven't heard it on the radio since, I don't know, a long time.
Teacher, Teacher from
the movie Teachers, right?
Soundtracks.
38 special was all over the soundtrack stuff in the 80s.
Like
No Other Night, [C#] more of a top 40 track, but [E] still rock and top 40.
Great song.
Nobody plays it.
Back
to Paradise, another movie.
Revenge of the Nerds.
Was it one or two?
I can't remember, but it was in
it.
Hittin' and Runnin'.
Okay, now Hittin' and Runnin' is my all-time favorite 38 special track.
If
you haven't heard Hittin' and Runnin', you need to go listen to it.
It's just, I mean, flat out just
kills it.
Go look at it.
Look the track up if you haven't heard it.
They used to play it on a good
rock station.
They used to play it all the time.
I haven't heard it in 30 years or so.
Rock and Roll
Strategy from the Max Carl era.
The title track from that great album, which [D#] to me could have
spelled disaster, but thanks to Second [E] Chance and rock stations, yours truly was employed by one,
we played Rock and Roll Strategy.
We played Little Sheba, and we also played Coming Down Tonight,
and we also played Hotlanta.
So we were playing a lot of tracks from that [G] album, and all of those
feature the guitar greatness of Jeff Carlisi, and again, the knockdown, drag-you-out new vocals of
Max Carl.
Then there's Somebody Like You.
There's another tune from the previous 38 special [E] album.
Used to be on the radio.
Has a killer hook.
Nowhere to be found.
The Sound of Your Voice,
which topped the rock charts.
Jim Peterick song, Max Carl singing, 1991.
Oh no, here comes the
grunge-a-lanch.
It's [N] coming.
You can feel it because the label is about to just say no more.
Now these guys had gone from A&M Records over to this other label, [G] and the other label sort of bailed
on promoting this album because [B] there was another tune on this album called The Signs of Love, and
The Signs of Love would have been Second Chance Part II if it had been promoted, but by then [G] the
label had bailed.
The industry was changing [D#] rapidly, and 38 special [G] eventually kind of broke up.
Back Alley Sally [A] gets an honorable mention.
It [D] did get some airplay, and that's a Donny tune
straight up.
Look, this is just one of [F#] these things where [G] if you love music, it's just tragic
that so little variety and so little creative thought goes into programming radio stations
these days.
I got a friend of [G] mine who I plugged his radio station a while back because it's a
really good 80s mix of tunes.
I don't like all the music on his radio station, but I love the fact
that he's completely comprehensive, very thorough, and plays pretty much everything that came out in
the 80s, all different genres mixed together.
Folks, we're in an age now where you can forget about
these great [N] songs.
Again, Hittin' and Runnin'.
You've got to listen to that track by 38 Special.
The guitar solo, I mean, this is a rock station type of tune, album-oriented rock killer.
Everybody at
their best, Don Barnes included.
Anyway, so that's it.
The music industry's war on 38 Special.
There's like three songs they play, and they seem pretty content with those three, and I'm not.
So I'll be back
It's Dave.
It's the Real Music Observer, observing real
music in real time for real people [N] just like you right there, [F#] just like me right here.
38 Special.
Yep, the music industry's war on 38 Special.
Now, when I do this provocative
[E] title, it is to call attention to the fact that radio, through focus testing and corporate
know-it-all type folks at these big mega radio stations, these iHeartRadio conglomerates,
Cumulus Media, whatever it is out there, [E] Clear Channel.
I know one [N] buys out another and one
doesn't exist anymore.
I haven't kept up with all the buyouts, but to me, it's all the same.
This is what we want you to hear, so tune in for the songs that what we're telling [F#] you
to listen to.
38 Special has been boiled down to probably two or three songs.
Obviously,
Hold On Loosely, a lot of people think, I'm serious, a lot of people, especially younger
people today, think Hold On Loosely is 38 Special's only hit song.
Like they're a one-hit
wonder band from the South.
And boy, they scored big [N] with that one.
What a great, they're
like the Tommy Teutone of the South, right?
Wrong.
It's just, okay, but I'll give radio
two more songs.
So Caught Up In You is maybe the second tune, or Caught Up In You is the
correct title.
And Second Chance, which gets on the adult contemporary stations, featuring
the vocal stylings of the great Max Carl, who took over for Don Barnes, who at that
point had gotten really sick of touring and [A] needed a break, and they recruited a guy who
had his own mojo, a different style, but still, they were able to keep going.
Let me give
you a list of songs, and this is an abbreviated list.
These are the ones [N] that I used to hear
on the radio that I don't hear anymore.
If I'd Been The One, Back Where You Belong, Rockin'
Into The Night, which was the big one.
Now, on occasion, I might hear Rockin' Into The
Night on the radio, but it's got to be a really good classic rock station with a little deeper,
as far as album cuts go.
Like they need to go a little deeper, and apparently, Rockin'
Into The Night nowadays is [Em] a deep cut.
Fantasy Girl.
Look, the Wild Eyed Southern Boys album,
right up there with my High Infidelity and my Journey's Escape and 4 and [C#] a 4 and Sticks
Paradise Theater.
I had that album cover.
I had to hide from my mom because of the girl with the
shorts, even though it was [E] like a painting or a drawing or a cartoon kind of thing.
I had,
you know, like, woo, this is way out [G] there.
This is risque.
I'm going to get in trouble.
Had the
album.
Love that album cover.
[N] Love the music.
It was just terrific.
And while we're on the topic,
the title track, Wild Eyed Southern Boys, featuring a vocal performance by both Donny
Van Zant and Don Barnes.
So that's pretty cool.
Chain Lightning.
Oh, man.
When's the last time
you've heard Chain Lightning on the radio, or Chain Lightning as it's spelled?
The thunderstorm
intro, that killer guitar riff.
It's just the drama, the power in the song.
That was your late
night 38 special.
You know, that was it.
That was the tune driving down the road.
You Keep Running
Away.
Another terrific album track that was on at least one or two KTEL albums back in the early
80s.
I haven't heard it on the radio since, I don't know, a long time.
Teacher, Teacher from
the movie Teachers, right?
Soundtracks.
38 special was all over the soundtrack stuff in the 80s.
Like
No Other Night, [C#] more of a top 40 track, but [E] still rock and top 40.
Great song.
Nobody plays it.
Back
to Paradise, another movie.
Revenge of the Nerds.
Was it one or two?
I can't remember, but it was in
it.
Hittin' and Runnin'.
Okay, now Hittin' and Runnin' is my all-time favorite 38 special track.
If
you haven't heard Hittin' and Runnin', you need to go listen to it.
It's just, I mean, flat out just
kills it.
Go look at it.
Look the track up if you haven't heard it.
They used to play it on a good
rock station.
They used to play it all the time.
I haven't heard it in 30 years or so.
Rock and Roll
Strategy from the Max Carl era.
The title track from that great album, which [D#] to me could have
spelled disaster, but thanks to Second [E] Chance and rock stations, yours truly was employed by one,
we played Rock and Roll Strategy.
We played Little Sheba, and we also played Coming Down Tonight,
and we also played Hotlanta.
So we were playing a lot of tracks from that [G] album, and all of those
feature the guitar greatness of Jeff Carlisi, and again, the knockdown, drag-you-out new vocals of
Max Carl.
Then there's Somebody Like You.
There's another tune from the previous 38 special [E] album.
Used to be on the radio.
Has a killer hook.
Nowhere to be found.
The Sound of Your Voice,
which topped the rock charts.
Jim Peterick song, Max Carl singing, 1991.
Oh no, here comes the
grunge-a-lanch.
It's [N] coming.
You can feel it because the label is about to just say no more.
Now these guys had gone from A&M Records over to this other label, [G] and the other label sort of bailed
on promoting this album because [B] there was another tune on this album called The Signs of Love, and
The Signs of Love would have been Second Chance Part II if it had been promoted, but by then [G] the
label had bailed.
The industry was changing [D#] rapidly, and 38 special [G] eventually kind of broke up.
Back Alley Sally [A] gets an honorable mention.
It [D] did get some airplay, and that's a Donny tune
straight up.
Look, this is just one of [F#] these things where [G] if you love music, it's just tragic
that so little variety and so little creative thought goes into programming radio stations
these days.
I got a friend of [G] mine who I plugged his radio station a while back because it's a
really good 80s mix of tunes.
I don't like all the music on his radio station, but I love the fact
that he's completely comprehensive, very thorough, and plays pretty much everything that came out in
the 80s, all different genres mixed together.
Folks, we're in an age now where you can forget about
these great [N] songs.
Again, Hittin' and Runnin'.
You've got to listen to that track by 38 Special.
The guitar solo, I mean, this is a rock station type of tune, album-oriented rock killer.
Everybody at
their best, Don Barnes included.
Anyway, so that's it.
The music industry's war on 38 Special.
There's like three songs they play, and they seem pretty content with those three, and I'm not.
So I'll be back
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Okay, music fans, welcome back.
It's Dave.
It's the Real Music Observer, observing real
music in real time for real people [N] just like you right there, [F#] just like me right here.
38 Special.
Yep, the music industry's war on 38 Special.
Now, when I do this provocative
[E] title, it is to call attention to the fact that radio, through focus testing and corporate
know-it-all type folks at these big mega radio stations, these iHeartRadio conglomerates,
Cumulus Media, whatever it is out there, [E] Clear Channel.
I know one [N] buys out another and one
doesn't exist anymore.
I haven't kept up with all the buyouts, but to me, it's all the same.
This is what we want you to hear, so tune in for the songs that what we're telling [F#] you
to listen to.
38 Special has been boiled down to probably two or three songs.
Obviously,
Hold On Loosely, a lot of people think, I'm serious, a lot of people, especially younger
people today, think Hold On Loosely is 38 Special's only hit song.
Like they're a one-hit
wonder band from the South.
And boy, they scored big [N] with that one.
What a great, they're
like the Tommy Teutone of the South, right?
Wrong.
It's just, okay, but I'll give radio
two more songs.
So Caught Up In You is maybe the second tune, or Caught Up In You is the
correct title.
And Second Chance, which gets on the adult contemporary stations, featuring
the vocal stylings of the great Max Carl, who took over for Don Barnes, who at that
point had gotten really sick of touring and [A] needed a break, and they recruited a guy who
had his own mojo, a different style, but still, they were able to keep going.
Let me give
you a list of songs, and this is an abbreviated list.
These are the ones [N] that I used to hear
on the radio that I don't hear anymore.
If I'd Been The One, Back Where You Belong, Rockin'
Into The Night, which was the big one.
Now, on occasion, I might hear Rockin' Into The
Night on the radio, but it's got to be a really good classic rock station with a little deeper,
as far as album cuts go.
Like they need to go a little deeper, and apparently, Rockin'
Into The Night nowadays is [Em] a deep cut.
Fantasy Girl.
Look, the Wild Eyed Southern Boys album,
right up there with my High Infidelity and my Journey's Escape and 4 and [C#] a 4 and Sticks
Paradise Theater.
I had that album cover.
I had to hide from my mom because of the girl with the
shorts, even though it was [E] like a painting or a drawing or a cartoon kind of thing.
I had,
you know, like, woo, this is way out [G] there.
This is risque.
I'm going to get in trouble.
Had the
album.
Love that album cover.
[N] Love the music.
It was just terrific.
And while we're on the topic,
the title track, Wild Eyed Southern Boys, featuring a vocal performance by both Donny
Van Zant and Don Barnes.
So that's pretty cool.
Chain Lightning.
Oh, man.
When's the last time
you've heard Chain Lightning on the radio, or Chain Lightning as it's spelled?
The thunderstorm
intro, that killer guitar riff.
It's just the drama, the power in the song.
That was your late
night 38 special.
You know, that was it.
That was the tune driving down the road.
You Keep Running
Away.
Another terrific album track that was on at least one or two KTEL albums back in the early
80s.
I haven't heard it on the radio since, I don't know, a long time.
Teacher, Teacher from
the movie Teachers, right?
Soundtracks.
38 special was all over the soundtrack stuff in the 80s.
Like
No Other Night, [C#] more of a top 40 track, but [E] still rock and top 40.
Great song.
Nobody plays it.
Back
to Paradise, another movie.
Revenge of the Nerds.
Was it one or two?
I can't remember, but it was in
it.
Hittin' and Runnin'.
Okay, now Hittin' and Runnin' is my all-time favorite 38 special track.
If
you haven't heard Hittin' and Runnin', you need to go listen to it.
It's just, I mean, flat out just
kills it.
Go look at it.
Look the track up if you haven't heard it.
They used to play it on a good
rock station.
They used to play it all the time.
I haven't heard it in 30 years or so.
Rock and Roll
Strategy from the Max Carl era.
The title track from that great album, which [D#] to me could have
spelled disaster, but thanks to Second [E] Chance and rock stations, yours truly was employed by one,
we played Rock and Roll Strategy.
We played Little Sheba, and we also played Coming Down Tonight,
and we also played Hotlanta.
So we were playing a lot of tracks from that [G] album, and all of those
feature the guitar greatness of Jeff Carlisi, and again, the knockdown, drag-you-out new vocals of
Max Carl.
Then there's Somebody Like You.
There's another tune from the previous 38 special [E] album.
Used to be on the radio.
Has a killer hook.
Nowhere to be found.
The Sound of Your Voice,
which topped the rock charts.
Jim Peterick song, Max Carl singing, 1991.
Oh no, here comes the
grunge-a-lanch.
It's [N] coming.
You can feel it because the label is about to just say no more.
Now these guys had gone from A&M Records over to this other label, [G] and the other label sort of bailed
on promoting this album because [B] there was another tune on this album called The Signs of Love, and
The Signs of Love would have been Second Chance Part II if it had been promoted, but by then [G] the
label had bailed.
The industry was changing [D#] rapidly, and 38 special [G] eventually kind of broke up.
Back Alley Sally [A] gets an honorable mention.
It [D] did get some airplay, and that's a Donny tune
straight up.
Look, this is just one of [F#] these things where [G] if you love music, it's just tragic
that so little variety and so little creative thought goes into programming radio stations
these days.
I got a friend of [G] mine who I plugged his radio station a while back because it's a
really good 80s mix of tunes.
I don't like all the music on his radio station, but I love the fact
that he's completely comprehensive, very thorough, and plays pretty much everything that came out in
the 80s, all different genres mixed together.
Folks, we're in an age now where you can forget about
these great [N] songs.
Again, Hittin' and Runnin'.
You've got to listen to that track by 38 Special.
The guitar solo, I mean, this is a rock station type of tune, album-oriented rock killer.
Everybody at
their best, Don Barnes included.
Anyway, so that's it.
The music industry's war on 38 Special.
There's like three songs they play, and they seem pretty content with those three, and I'm not.
So I'll be back
It's Dave.
It's the Real Music Observer, observing real
music in real time for real people [N] just like you right there, [F#] just like me right here.
38 Special.
Yep, the music industry's war on 38 Special.
Now, when I do this provocative
[E] title, it is to call attention to the fact that radio, through focus testing and corporate
know-it-all type folks at these big mega radio stations, these iHeartRadio conglomerates,
Cumulus Media, whatever it is out there, [E] Clear Channel.
I know one [N] buys out another and one
doesn't exist anymore.
I haven't kept up with all the buyouts, but to me, it's all the same.
This is what we want you to hear, so tune in for the songs that what we're telling [F#] you
to listen to.
38 Special has been boiled down to probably two or three songs.
Obviously,
Hold On Loosely, a lot of people think, I'm serious, a lot of people, especially younger
people today, think Hold On Loosely is 38 Special's only hit song.
Like they're a one-hit
wonder band from the South.
And boy, they scored big [N] with that one.
What a great, they're
like the Tommy Teutone of the South, right?
Wrong.
It's just, okay, but I'll give radio
two more songs.
So Caught Up In You is maybe the second tune, or Caught Up In You is the
correct title.
And Second Chance, which gets on the adult contemporary stations, featuring
the vocal stylings of the great Max Carl, who took over for Don Barnes, who at that
point had gotten really sick of touring and [A] needed a break, and they recruited a guy who
had his own mojo, a different style, but still, they were able to keep going.
Let me give
you a list of songs, and this is an abbreviated list.
These are the ones [N] that I used to hear
on the radio that I don't hear anymore.
If I'd Been The One, Back Where You Belong, Rockin'
Into The Night, which was the big one.
Now, on occasion, I might hear Rockin' Into The
Night on the radio, but it's got to be a really good classic rock station with a little deeper,
as far as album cuts go.
Like they need to go a little deeper, and apparently, Rockin'
Into The Night nowadays is [Em] a deep cut.
Fantasy Girl.
Look, the Wild Eyed Southern Boys album,
right up there with my High Infidelity and my Journey's Escape and 4 and [C#] a 4 and Sticks
Paradise Theater.
I had that album cover.
I had to hide from my mom because of the girl with the
shorts, even though it was [E] like a painting or a drawing or a cartoon kind of thing.
I had,
you know, like, woo, this is way out [G] there.
This is risque.
I'm going to get in trouble.
Had the
album.
Love that album cover.
[N] Love the music.
It was just terrific.
And while we're on the topic,
the title track, Wild Eyed Southern Boys, featuring a vocal performance by both Donny
Van Zant and Don Barnes.
So that's pretty cool.
Chain Lightning.
Oh, man.
When's the last time
you've heard Chain Lightning on the radio, or Chain Lightning as it's spelled?
The thunderstorm
intro, that killer guitar riff.
It's just the drama, the power in the song.
That was your late
night 38 special.
You know, that was it.
That was the tune driving down the road.
You Keep Running
Away.
Another terrific album track that was on at least one or two KTEL albums back in the early
80s.
I haven't heard it on the radio since, I don't know, a long time.
Teacher, Teacher from
the movie Teachers, right?
Soundtracks.
38 special was all over the soundtrack stuff in the 80s.
Like
No Other Night, [C#] more of a top 40 track, but [E] still rock and top 40.
Great song.
Nobody plays it.
Back
to Paradise, another movie.
Revenge of the Nerds.
Was it one or two?
I can't remember, but it was in
it.
Hittin' and Runnin'.
Okay, now Hittin' and Runnin' is my all-time favorite 38 special track.
If
you haven't heard Hittin' and Runnin', you need to go listen to it.
It's just, I mean, flat out just
kills it.
Go look at it.
Look the track up if you haven't heard it.
They used to play it on a good
rock station.
They used to play it all the time.
I haven't heard it in 30 years or so.
Rock and Roll
Strategy from the Max Carl era.
The title track from that great album, which [D#] to me could have
spelled disaster, but thanks to Second [E] Chance and rock stations, yours truly was employed by one,
we played Rock and Roll Strategy.
We played Little Sheba, and we also played Coming Down Tonight,
and we also played Hotlanta.
So we were playing a lot of tracks from that [G] album, and all of those
feature the guitar greatness of Jeff Carlisi, and again, the knockdown, drag-you-out new vocals of
Max Carl.
Then there's Somebody Like You.
There's another tune from the previous 38 special [E] album.
Used to be on the radio.
Has a killer hook.
Nowhere to be found.
The Sound of Your Voice,
which topped the rock charts.
Jim Peterick song, Max Carl singing, 1991.
Oh no, here comes the
grunge-a-lanch.
It's [N] coming.
You can feel it because the label is about to just say no more.
Now these guys had gone from A&M Records over to this other label, [G] and the other label sort of bailed
on promoting this album because [B] there was another tune on this album called The Signs of Love, and
The Signs of Love would have been Second Chance Part II if it had been promoted, but by then [G] the
label had bailed.
The industry was changing [D#] rapidly, and 38 special [G] eventually kind of broke up.
Back Alley Sally [A] gets an honorable mention.
It [D] did get some airplay, and that's a Donny tune
straight up.
Look, this is just one of [F#] these things where [G] if you love music, it's just tragic
that so little variety and so little creative thought goes into programming radio stations
these days.
I got a friend of [G] mine who I plugged his radio station a while back because it's a
really good 80s mix of tunes.
I don't like all the music on his radio station, but I love the fact
that he's completely comprehensive, very thorough, and plays pretty much everything that came out in
the 80s, all different genres mixed together.
Folks, we're in an age now where you can forget about
these great [N] songs.
Again, Hittin' and Runnin'.
You've got to listen to that track by 38 Special.
The guitar solo, I mean, this is a rock station type of tune, album-oriented rock killer.
Everybody at
their best, Don Barnes included.
Anyway, so that's it.
The music industry's war on 38 Special.
There's like three songs they play, and they seem pretty content with those three, and I'm not.
So I'll be back