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40 YEARS AGO: AIR SUPPLY HIT THE TOP WITH ‘THE ONE THAT YOU LOVE’
UltimateClassicRock ^ | July 25, 2021 | Rob Smith

Posted on 07/25/2021 9:27:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: Steely Tom

Oh, stop it. Except for engineers and a few people like that, nobody is ever going to need more than 4K.


21 posted on 07/25/2021 11:00:57 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: nickcarraway

Here they were “Tyme machines”. Tyme didnt last very long but to this day when someone here needs cash you will hear them say “run to the time machine.”


22 posted on 07/25/2021 11:03:25 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: Steely Tom

My older brother did. That place was off the hook in the 80s from what he said.


23 posted on 07/25/2021 11:13:52 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Viking2002
Air Supply made me react the same way then, as now: I want to puncture my eardrums out with ice picks. It’s the bubonic plague of yacht rock.

Puncturing ears with ice picks because you don't like certain music makes the music you like, less desirable. I have eclectic taste where I like certain songs but can refrain from the ice picks on those I don't.

24 posted on 07/25/2021 11:25:16 PM PDT by Starstruck ( Since I'm old I don't whether I'm senile or brilliant. Or happily both.)
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To: nickcarraway

My first experience with an ATM was in ‘83 or ‘84 and, as near as I can remember, they were always called ATMs.


25 posted on 07/25/2021 11:28:33 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: gnarledmaw

Here in the Flint, MI area we had “Genny from Genesee Bank”.


26 posted on 07/26/2021 12:13:10 AM PDT by wingnut1971 (Oh good...another BS study I get to pay for.)
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To: nickcarraway

During that time we were listening to Def Leppard, Foreigner, Journey, Styx, Rush and Van Halen.


27 posted on 07/26/2021 12:19:23 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: nickcarraway

The song I liked best was Making Love Out Of Nothing At All. It’s still one of my favorites. My husband and I saw them in Las Vegas twice. A rather lackluster performance each time….but their songs saved them. The packed house loved the music. And they were Air Supply. And it was Las Vegas. ☺️


28 posted on 07/26/2021 2:51:44 AM PDT by FryingPan101 (I’ve was wrong about Mitt Romney. I was wrong about Paul Ryan. I was wrong about the RNC. )
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To: DoodleBob

They changed Granite Run Mall to an outdoor strip mall.
GRM went downhill once SEPTA started running a Chester to GRM route.

I went to 69th street 3 years ago, and there were more signs in different languages than English...


29 posted on 07/26/2021 3:42:42 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: nickcarraway

And a friend of mine said they are better than the Beatles. I laughed... loudly.


30 posted on 07/26/2021 4:58:11 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: Viking2002

Yes, they were quite lame.


31 posted on 07/26/2021 5:17:03 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: nickcarraway

My wife really loved Air Supply. We saw them in concert at a county fair in the 90’s. They were ok live but I must say I was a little disappointed. Hicthcock’s amazing vocal range was not on display once during the evening. Was it just an off night or had he lost his range? If these singers don’t take care of their voices, they can lose them doing 200 shows year after year. Maybe that’s why they really haven’t had any hits since the 80’s....


32 posted on 07/26/2021 6:03:54 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: max americana

To me Springsteen is and always was a big zero and that even before I knew anything political about him.


33 posted on 07/26/2021 6:35:37 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: DoodleBob

Springsteen was a Jersey thing but one of the guys working in the projection booth at our college theater was from Jersey and would play him before movies.


34 posted on 07/26/2021 6:39:58 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: BradyLS

Titless Tellers


35 posted on 07/26/2021 6:40:49 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: gnarledmaw

My buddy Tony started calling the ATM the “beer in the box”. That definitely stuck with our group of friends.
None of my younger friends even carry cash anymore. At a birthday party this weekend and this subject came up. All of us in our fifties were saying we always have at least a $100 bucks on us. Most of the guys in their 30’s and 40’s said they barely have 10 bucks on them. It is weird how things change.


36 posted on 07/26/2021 6:48:18 AM PDT by Big Red Clay (Greetings from the Big Red State )
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To: Steely Tom
We are probably of the same age. I also remember hanging out at Waldenbooks at the mall while my girlfriend went shopping. ("Just meet me at the Waldenbooks" I would say "I'll be there waiting, take your time.")

I admit to liking most all of the Air Supply songs. I always had an appreciation for soft rock. Lobo, BJ Thomas and Neil Diamond are other soft rock artists from the era that come to mind). There were many others.

You can still hear these songs on Sirius XM stations like The Bridge and Yacht Rock. Or the Top 40 countdowns on the 70s and 80s stations.

37 posted on 07/26/2021 6:51:15 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: nickcarraway
My first experience with an ATM was in the early 1980s when I was stationed at Camp Pendleton. They weren't called ATM's yet. These were called Versatellers.

I remember going there on a Saturday morning to pull $40 out at an Oceanside, CA branch. It seemed like something right out of the future. I always had this fear that it would malfunction and not spit out the money, but debit my account anyway as if it did. That never happened. But it was still many years before I trusted putting money INTO an ATM machine.

38 posted on 07/26/2021 6:58:26 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: nickcarraway

I think Air Supply should be banned from playing on the radio. Too many accidents caused as people try to change the station.


39 posted on 07/26/2021 1:09:48 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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