A Deal with the TV God Part 2

Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia

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Music, Music History, Music Commentary

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 41 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	I'm Jonathan Braylock, I'm Dra. Milligan, and I'm James III. And we're those of Black
0:09.2	Man Kenchup in Hollywood. It's a comedic podcast that reviews films with leading actors
0:13.6	of color and analyze them in the context of race and Hollywood's diversity issues.
0:17.7	Yeah. Listen to new episodes on Mondays. Find us wherever you get your podcasts. I don't
0:22.7	care where you get them. I just want you to listen. Don't threaten the people we need
0:26.9	them to listen. Okay. Okay. Okay. Sorry, guys. Listen. Listen to us. Yeah. Yeah. Put on a
0:32.2	happy voice. Hey, everybody. It's Tim Heidecker. You know me. Tim and Eric Bridesmaids
0:43.2	and Fantastic Four. I'd like to personally invite you to listen to the office hours live
0:47.9	with me and my co-hosts DJ Doug Pound. Hello. And Vic Berger. Howdy. Every week we bring
0:53.6	you last fun games and lots of other surprises. It's live. We take your Zoom calls. We love
0:58.5	having fun. Excuse me. Vic said something. It's a song. I like having fun. I like to
1:05.0	laugh. I like to meet people who can make me laugh. Please subscribe. No.
1:23.8	A podcast of pop chart history from Sleet magazine about the hits from Coast to Coast.
1:29.5	I'm Chris Malanfe, Chart Analyst, Pop Critic and Writer of Sleets. Why is this song number
1:34.7	one series on our last episode? We ran down more than three decades of hits spawned by television
1:42.8	from theme songs to montage soundtracks to reinvented oldies. We are now up to the 1980s when
1:51.3	in the wake of Miami vices success, TV music supervisors were curating songs for maximum
1:58.7	exposure and turning under appreciated gems into hits. Certain mid-80s TV shows did try to replicate
2:08.8	the Miami vice model. The ABC school ball comedy moon lighting, for example, starring civil
2:15.8	shepherd and Bruce Willis, capitalized with a full soundtrack and a radio push for its theme song
2:22.9	by Jazzy R&B singer Al Giro. Moonlighting the song reached number 23 in 1987.
2:35.0	Or prolific TV theme composer Mike Post. Heve scored some actual hits in the prior decade
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