Used to like them back in the day, they had some good tunes out, such as "Day by Day", "All You Zombies", and (my favorite) "And We Danced". They also wrote some tunes for Cyndi Lauper as well.

I remember them for the one song And We Danced, along with the Cyndi Lauper (She's So Unusual) album connection.


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Hey Audience. They also wrote the Joan Osborne song "One of Us" (which I just remembered when doing some research online). They also released a CD back in 2003, which I didn't even hear about. Nice to see that they're still around, I thought they were long gone.

"And We Danced" was the SHIT back in the day! I still get hyped whenever I hear it!

CreamyThighs said:

Oh man, me too, I that song.

psychodelicide said:

How are ya?

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theAudience said:

Good, yourself?

psychodelicide said:

A'ight. Still trying to figure out how to not work for a living.

Any clues?


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And we danced, on the wave of the ocean romance...

And we danced, and danced, and danced!

Thanks, I needed that.

When "And We Danced" came out, the Hooters were supposed to be the next big things. Follow up single, "All You Zombies" bombed. Bye bye Hooters!

I really liked "All You Zombies", but "And We Danced" is simply diggable to the extreme. Thanks for reminding me of this song! It always puts a smile on my face and has me dancing like a maniac.
"She was a be-bop baby on a hard day`s night..."

psychodelicide said:

I believe that was only one ex-member of the band.

can we blame the band name for their demise?

sosgemini said:

Well maybe if folks have the wrong impression of what they're referring to.

It' actually a nickname for a "melodica"...



...An instrument featured in their songs.


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theAudience said:

Gosh, wish I could help you there, but unfortunately, I can't. If there was a way of never having to work ever again in this lifetime, it would make me deliriously happy.

flutterbyyy said:

You're welcome, it was my pleasure.

Ace said:

Really? Which ex-Hooter was it?

theAudience said:

That's an unsual looking instrument, isn't it? Looks like a mini-keyboard with a metal piece attached to it.

So Prince actually did a cover version of a Hooters song? Wow!

pkidwell said:

Yup, he sure did.

psychodelicide said:

Taken from "Songfacts" (http://www.songfacts.com/...p?id=3249&):

This was written by Eric Bazilian, who was working on the album with Rob Hyman and Rick Chertoff. Says Bazilian, "For me, the song was more about what happens to you when you look at something that has completely changed your world view, which could be meeting God, it could be meeting an alien, it could be a near-death experience, it could be anything like that. Just how everything you know is wrong, or everything you know is right, and you didn't know it."

Hyman and Bazilian were members of The Hooters and along with Chertoff, collaborated on Cyndi Lauper's first album, She's So Unusual. They usually take a while to craft their songs, but occasionally one will come out quickly. One of these songs was "All You Zombies," which was The Hooters' first single and also contains lots of Biblical imagery. Says Bazilian, "I've written a decent number of 'God' songs, and I wrote a bunch of them after 'One Of Us,' except you'll never hear them because they're not as good. It's a strange thing. I could, and I often have, pointed to another hand guiding."

Bazilian: "It was January, 1994. My now-wife had just moved over from Sweden. We were watching The Making of Sgt. Pepper on TV, and when it ended, she expressed interest in the 4-track recording process - that documentary is mostly George Martin sitting at the Abbey Road 4-track console. I pointed at the mass of wires sitting on my dining room table, which was my porta-studio, and said, 'There you go, that's 4-track recording technology for you.' She asked me to record something, and that's when it happened. I had been playing the guitar riff all day and put a little track together. She said, 'Sing it,' and I said, 'You can't just sing, you have to write the song, you have to discuss the concept, you have to re-write then decide you were better in the first place.' Something snapped - I just put the thing in record and started singing and that's what came out. The verses came out in the first pass, the chorus came out in the second pass. The next day I went in. We took a break later in the afternoon and I decided to play it for everybody. I had no agenda, I just said, 'Hey, check out this weird song I wrote last night.' I played the recording I'd done, and Rick Chertoff looked up and said, 'Joan, do you think you could sing that?' She said, 'Yeah,' so I wrote the words out and played on the guitar as she sang it, and that was it. That was our first rough demo of it."

Osborne got her record deal after Rob Hyman saw her perform and brought her to the attention of Rick Chertoff, who by then was a producer at Polygram Records. She released one previous album on her own before working with Chertoff, Hyman and Bazilian on Relish.

Osborne, Bazilian, Hyman and Chertoff were right in the middle of writing other songs for the album, like "Right Hand Man," "St. Teresa," and "Ladder" when Bazilian got the idea for this. Says Eric, "My girlfriend, now wife, had picked me up at a session at Rob's house that day. When she walked in, I was playing that guitar riff. Part of writing that song was a reaction to being deep in this 4-way songwriting collaboration, which can get very draining."

Bazilian: "In my case, it's not a religious thing, I'm not a religious person. My relationship with the absolute is very private and personal. I'm not trying to bring anybody around to any way of thinking. You don't write songs like that, they write you. When I write songs, I don't have any agenda. I often learn a lot about what I'm thinking about any given issue from the songs I write about it. There was no conscious decision to write a song with the "G" word in it, but it ended up sort of summing up my world view inadvertently, just by the words that happened to pour out of me at the time." (Thanks to Eric for speaking with us about this song. For more, check out www.ericbazilian.com)

This is the theme song to the CBS TV show Joan Of Arcadia, which is about a young girl who encounters God in the form of everyday people. The producers thought this song fit perfectly with the show.

This earned Grammy nominations for Song Of The Year, Record Of The Year and Best Female Pop Vocal. Osborne was also nominated for Best New Artist and Relish for album of the year. None of them won, with Seal's "Kiss From A Rose" beating it for Song and Record Of The Year, Alanis Morissette winning Best Album and Hootie And The Blowfish winning Best New Artist.

This has been used in several movies, including Austin Powers, Vanilla Sky and Bruce Almighty.

"She was a bebop baby on a hard day's night..."

psychodelicide said:

yeah, how about that? Damn I never thought of it that way, cuz I SWEAR I love me some "and we danced". I start dancing like a white person when it comes on the radio

I loved "Where do the children go", their duet with Patty Smyth.