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This podcast contains explicit language. Welcome to Hippere, a podcast of Pop Chart History from Slate magazine, about the hits from

Coast to Coast.

I'm Chris Malanfi, Chart Analysts,, pop critic, and writer of Slate's Why Is This Song Number One series.

On today's show, 40 years ago at the 1980 Grammy Awards, the night's big winners, taking home four grammophones,

were a band originally formed 10 years earlier in San Jose, California that had transformed themselves into pop stars.

Their name, Dubie Brothers, was taken from the slang word for marijuana.

But by 1980, their music sounded more like a chilled rosé. Z. That week in late February 1980 that the Dubies swept the Grammys.

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