Posted on 11/04/2024 8:59:31 AM PST by Alberta's Child
Day #45 of the Top 50 songs on my iTunes playlist -- ranked in reverse order by play frequency from #50 to #1 and presented here on a series of FR threads. I've been posting them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the last couple of months. We are coming down the home stretch here, folks -- and it looks like this will be done by the second week of November!
And to show my gratitude to the FR management for giving us all a forum to post vanity threads like this, I'll be making contributions for both the 3rd and 4th quarter fundraisers. I would encourage everyone on these threads to do the same! :-)
Have fun with this, folks!
#7 -- "The Boys of Summer" by Don Henley ... Click Here (YouTube original video)
#50T -- "Solsbury Hill" by Peter Gabriel
#50T -- "Fly Over States" by Jason Aldean
#49 -- "Sara" by Fleetwood Mac
#48 -- Bagpipe Medley by the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band (2009 World Pipe Band Championships)
#47 -- "How I'll Always Be" by Tim McGraw
#46 -- "Midnight On The Interstate" by Trampled By Turtles
#45 -- "Your Love" by The Outfield
#44 -- "Ventura Highway" by America
#43 -- "Like A Rock" by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
#42 -- "The World I Know" by Collective Soul
#41 -- "Dance the Night Away" by Van Halen
#40 -- "The Gael" from The Last of the Mohicans
#39 -- "Stand Or Fall" by The Fixx
#38 -- "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits
#37 -- "Midnight Rider" by The Allman Brothers Band
#36 -- "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" by Procul Harum
#35 -- "Gathering Crowds" from This Week in Baseball
#34 -- "Copperhead Road" by Steve Earle
#33 -- "Suddenly Last Summer" by The Motels
#32 -- "Time Stand Still" by Rush
#31 -- "Nothing Left To Lose" by Mat Kearney
#30 -- "In a Big Country" by Big Country
#29 -- "New York City Serenade" by Bruce Springsteen
#28 -- "Who'll Stop the Rain?" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
#27 -- "Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)" by John Mellencamp
#26 -- "It's All I Can Do" by The Cars
#25 -- "Talk Of The Town" by The Pretenders
#24 -- "Going To California" by Led Zeppelin
#23 -- "Into The Mystic" by Van Morrison
#22 -- "The Fire Inside" by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
#21 -- "Heard It In A Love Song" by The Marshall Tucker Band
#20 -- "Find Your Way Back" by Jefferson Starship
#19 -- "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)" by Grand Funk Railroad
#18 -- "Take It Back" by Pink Floyd
#17 -- "Mandolin Rain" by Bruce Hornsby & The Range
#16 -- "More Than A Feeling" by Boston
#15 -- "Tuesday's Gone" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
#14 -- "Sullivan Street" by the Counting Crows
#13 -- "Take It To The Limit" by The Eagles
#12 -- "Waiting On A Friend" by the Rolling Stones
#11 -- "A Pirate Looks At Forty" by Jimmy Buffett
#10 -- "Never Surrender" by Corey Hart
#9 -- "Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses" by Kathy Mattea
#8 -- "Hysteria" by Def Leppard
#7 -- "The Boys of Summer" by Don Henley
Oh, I love this song! So many visuals in my head. Truly a classic summer song.
I posted the original video because it won many awards in its day, and is still remembered as one of the best music videos ever produced. Lots of storylines with the video and the song. The kid in the video is supposed to hearken back to a young Don Henley playing the drums. And the song itself was originally written for Tom Petty's Southern Accents album, but they left it off because it was out of character with the rest of the tracks on that one.
This song also has one of the most memorable (and compelling) lines in any modern hit. I've had it as my FR tagline in the past:
"Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac."
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Probably one of the most ironic and iconic lines of a song from the 80's.
Yep, great song, good story behind it.
That was great! I heard a truncated version of this story recently, but this has so much more detail.
Jimmy Iovine was at the house, he sure got around.
According to a Forbes article from June 2016, music producer Jimmy Iovine’s net worth was $970 million. Iovine co-founded Beats Electronics with Dr. Dre in 2006. Apple acquired Beats in 2014, making Iovine and Dre even wealthier.
Only in America.
Boys of Summer is a sacred song to me. Takes me back to when my best friend was still alive. He and I would go on massive drives and just listen to the radio. This was our song.
That is a great story behind your song!
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