A Deal with the TV God Part 1

Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia

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Music, Music History, Music Commentary

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

For decades, British alt-pop goddess Kate Bush had never had a Top 10 hit in America. Now, in 2022, she finds herself in the Hot 100’s Top Five—and television got her there. Her classic “Running Up That Hill” is featured prominently in the latest season of Netflix’s hit ’80s horror fantasy show Stranger Things. This puts Bush in a long lineage of hits spawned or made bigger by TV, dating all the way back to Davy Crockett and Peter Gunn, through Hawaii Five-O and Happy Days, and peaking in the ’80s with Miami Vice and Family Ties. Join host Chris Molanphy as he walks through more than six decades of hits from the so-called boob tube and reveals why—thanks to our streaming age—Kate Bush’s hit might be the biggest TV tune of all. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Whether it's your passion for grizzly crime dramas, nail-biting trillets with monstrous
0:10.7	city-destroying creatures, or iconic, will they won't they rom-coms?
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0:31.0	Hey there, hit-parade listeners.
0:33.4	What you're about to hear is part one of this episode.
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1:17.4	Thanks, and now please enjoy part one of this hit-parade episode.
1:27.5	Welcome to Hit-parade, a podcast of pop-chart history from Slate magazine about the hits from
1:38.6	Coast to Coast.
1:39.6	I'm Chris Malanfi, chart analyst, pop critic, and writer of Slates Why is the Song No. 1 series.
1:46.6	On today's show, 37 years ago, in the summer of 1985, British art rock goddess Kate Bush
1:55.2	issued the first single from what would become her best-selling studio album, Hounds of Love.
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