29 February 2020

 

 

On the Radio

Saturday 9: On the Radio (1979)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

 

1) The action begins when a letter falls out of the pocket of a brown overcoat. What color is your coat?

Reddish.  Not bright red, not maroon, but between the two colors.

2) The lyrics ask if it "kinda strikes you sad when you hear our song." We don't want to be sad this Saturday, so we're asking what song makes you happy.

"Thank God You're Doing Fine."

3) Right before this song hit the charts, Donna Summer hit the cover of Newsweek. Are there any magazines in your home now? If yes, who is on the cover?

We only subscribe to one magazine, "This Week."  And this week's cover has William Barr on the cover.  It says "Are Barr and Trump; using the law for partisan ends?"

4) Donna wrote the lyrics to this song, while producer Giorgio Moroder wrote the tune. Moroder is known as "the father of disco." Is disco a genre you enjoy?

I don't love it, but I don't hate it.  It's  OK.

5) This song got additional airplay throughout the 1980s because the game show The Price Is Right played it every time a contestant won a stereo. Today, the most popular audio equipment sold at Best Buy is a sound bar to improve the quality of TV audio. Have you added a sound bar or sound system to your TV?

No.  In fact I don't really enjoy surround sound for my TV.  It always sounds weird.

6) Moroder has won two Academy Awards for Best Song. The first was for "Flashdance ... What a Feeling" from Flashdance and the second was for "Take My Breath Away" from Top Gun. Do you have a favorite movie soundtrack?

Anything with music by John Williams.  Or any of the MGM musicals, like The Music Man.  And of course, I love the soundtrack to Judy Garland's A Star Is Born.

7) He grew up in Ortsei, Italy. Located in Northern Italy, the Ortsei economy is fueled by tourists who ski in winter, hike in summer and shop for woodcarvings all year around. Do out-of-towners find their way to your hometown more often in summer or winter?

This isn't exactly a town where tourists visit, but there is always a huge influx of out of towners in late August or early September, when the students arrive to start the University year.

8) Kourtney Kardashian was born in 1979, the year this record was a hit. Keeping Up with the Kardashians has been on since 2007. Have you ever seen it?

Good Lord, no.

9) Random question -- When getting dressed in the morning, what's the second item of clothing you put on?

Whatever slacks are going on over my underwear.