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Irene Cara is best known as a singer of movie themes, though she worked
as an actress since childhood. Raised in New York City, she appeared on
Broadway in 1967 in the musical Maggie Flynn at age eight and can be
heard on the cast album for the show The Me Nobody Knows. From the age
of 16, she was turning up on television and in films, including a part
in the TV mini-series Roots 2 in 1979. In 1980, she was catapulted into
stardom and a singing career by her appearance in the film Fame, for
which she sang the title song, an Oscar-winning Top Ten hit. Also from
the film was her Top 40 hit “Out Here on My Own.” In 1983, she topped
the charts with “Flashdance…What a Feelin’” from the movie Flashdance,
a song she co-wrote that won another Oscar, and Cara won a couple of
Grammys for her contributions to the soundtrack. Her What a Feelin’
album included the hits “Why Me?” and “Breakdance,” and she also made
the Top 40 with a third movie theme, “The Dream (Hold on to Your
Dream),” from DC Cab. Irene speaks with Shadoe from her home in
Clearwater Florida.

Host:JADonnelly

Musicologist: Shadoe Steele

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When the Little River Band formed in 1975, Australia immediately took
notice. The key band members were already well-known to Australians.
Lead singer Glenn Shorrock had made his name in mid-’60s group the
Twilights, a Beatles-sounding pop group who scored a national number one
record with their version of the Velvelettes’ “Needle in a Haystack.”
When that group broke up in 1969 Shorrock became lead singer of Axiom,
whose “A Little Ray of Sunshine” is still an Australian classic rock
staple. LRB’s Beeb Birtles had been the bass player for a popular
Twilights-era pop group called Zoot (Rick Springfield was a latter
member). Glenn Shorrock joins Shadoe from his home in Sydney.

Host:JADonnelly

Musicologist: Shadoe Steele

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B.J. Thomas (born Billy Joe Thomas) straddled the line between pop/rock and country, achieving success in both genres in the late ’60s and ’70s. At the beginning of his career, he leaned more heavily on rock & roll, but by the mid-’70s, he had turned to country music, becoming one of the most successful country-pop stars of the decade.

Thomas began singing while he was a child, performing in church. In his teens, he joined the Houston-based band the Triumphs, who released a number of independent singles that failed to gain any attention. For the group’s last single, Thomas and fellow Triumph member Mark Charron wrote “Billy and Sue,” which was another flop. After “Billy and Sue,” Thomas began a solo career, recording a version of Hank Williams’ standard “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” with producer Huey P. Meaux. Released by Scepter Records in early 1966, the single became an immediate hit, catapulting to number eight on the pop charts. Although he had a series of moderate follow-up hits, including a re-release of “Billy and Sue,” Thomas failed to reenter the Top Ten until 1968, when “Hooked on a Feeling” became a number-five, gold single. The following year, he scored his biggest hit with Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” taken from the hit film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It was followed by a string of soft rock hits in the next two years, including “Everybody’s Out of Town,” “I Just Can’t Help Believing,” “No Love at All,” and “Rock and Roll Lullaby,” which featured guitarist Duane Eddy and the vocal group the Blossoms.

After “Rock and Roll Lullaby,” Scepter Records went out of business and B.J. Thomas headed to Paramount Records. At Paramount, Thomas had no hits, prompting the singer to pursue a new country-pop direction at ABC Records. “(Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song,” his first single for ABC, became his second number-one record on the pop charts, as well as establishing a country career for the vocalist. For the next decade, he continued to have hits on the country charts, with a couple of songs * most notably “Don’t Worry Baby” * crossing over into the pop charts. During this period, he switched record companies at a rapid pace, but it did nothing to slow the pace of his hits. Thomas hit his country peak in 1983 and 1984, when he had the number-one hits “Whatever Happened to Old Fashioned Love” and “New Looks From an Old Lover,” as well as the Top Ten hits “The Whole World’s in Love When You’re Lonely” and “Two Car Garage.” Throughout the ’80s, B.J. Thomas recorded a number of hit gospel records for Myrrh concurrently with his country hits.

At the end of the ’80s, the hits began to dry up for Thomas, but he continued to tour, and put out the occasional country and gospel record in the ’90s.

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After spending several years as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the mid-’70s hard rock band Montrose, Sammy Hagar began a solo career that produced several hits and made him an album rock favorite. Hagar became a true star once he joined Van Halen in 1985, but he was a popular hard rocker ever since his first album with Montrose.

After giving up a boxing career, Hagar began singing in the late ’60s, performing with various California bands including Skinny, the Fabulous Catillas, Justice Brothers, and Dust Cloud. During this time, he built up a solid reputation in the Californian hard rock scene. Former Edgar Winter guitarist Ronnie Montrose asked Hagar to join his band, Montrose, in 1973. Hagar recorded two albums with Montrose before going solo in 1976, taking the group’s bassist, Bill Church. Montrose’s drummer Denny Carmassi later joined Hagar’s band, along with keyboardist Geoff Workman. Hagar’s self-titled Sammy Hagar was his first chart entry; it eventually went gold. In 1979, he created a new supporting band featuring Workman, Church, guitarist Gary Pihl, and drummer Chuck Ruff. This lineup played on Hagar’s most popular solo album, 1981’s platinum Standing Hampton, plus 1982’s gold Three Lock Box with only one member missing * drummer Ruff was replaced by David Lauser. After Three Lock Box and its number 13 hit single “Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy,” Hagar played several shows with guitarist Neal Schon, bassist Kenny Aaronson, and drummer Mike Shrieve; the group recorded a live album under the name HSAS, as well as a studio version of Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale.” His 1984 album VOA contained the hit single “I Can’t Drive 55,” which peaked at number 26. In 1985, Hagar replaced David Lee Roth in Van Halen; his first album with the group was 1986’s 5150. Hagar released his last solo album, Sammy Hagar, in 1987; the title of the record was changed to I Never Said Goodbye in an MTV contest, but no copies of the record were ever issued with that name. Hagar stayed with Van Halen through the remainder of the ’80s and half of the ’90s. Another madpod exclusive 45-minute chat with Shadoe from Sammy’s home in Mill Valley California.
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One of the founding fathers of synth pop, Gary Numan’s influence
extends far beyond his lone American hit, “Cars,” which still stands as
one of the defining new wave singles. That seminal track helped usher
in the synth pop era on both sides of the Atlantic, especially his
native U.K., where he was a genuine pop star and consistent hitmaker
during the early ’80s. Even after new wave had petered out, Numan’s
impact continued to make itself felt; his dark, paranoid vision,
theatrically icy alien persona, and clinical, robotic sound were echoed
strongly in the work of many Goth rock and (especially) industrial
artists to come. For his part, Numan just kept on recording, and by the
late ’90s, he’d become a hip name to drop; prominent alt-rock bands
covered his hits in concert, and a Goth-flavored brand of industrial
dance christened darkwave looked to him as its mentor.

Numan sang a TV commercial jingle for
jeans, and toward the end of the year the group’s debut album, Tubeway
Army, appeared. Chiefly influenced by Kraftwerk and David Bowie’s
Berlin-era collaborations with Brian Eno, the album also displayed
Numan’s fascination with the electronic, experimental side of glam (Roxy
Music, Ultravox) and Krautrock (Can), as well as science fiction writer
Philip K. Dick. Gary speaks with Shadoe from his home in
Gloucestershire.

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