Love this group! Midas Touch, Wet My Whistle, No Parking on the Dance Floor, Freak a Zoid and Don’t Rock the Boat are great jams! But this song was what hooked me into them! 🤩
Love the way the main operator was mimicking Ernestine, one of Lilly Tomlin's characters on "Rowan and Martin's Laugh In", the iconic 70s show that launched the career of Goldie Hawn and others.
Party line was shared phone lines to save money but u could be talking, then the lady down the street would pick up and ask if she could use the line, so then u would end your conversation.
Origin story: the term “give me the 411” comes from these days. If you needed a phone number and didn’t have access to a phone book, you dialed 411 for “information” and they could give you the number. For an extra fee they would connect you.
When I was growing up in the country we were on a party line which meant the phone bill was low but you shared the phone line with neighbors. You would pick up the phone and accidentally hear the conversation of the person next door. We only used the phone for important stuff never casual conversation.
Each home on the line had their own ring pattern for incoming calls; these were mainly out on rural farm lines by 1967 in Missouri, the year we shared a party line with three other homes.
@@1969madame Yes ! I love both actors. Ewan McGregor and Renee Zellweger did a parody movie called "Down With Love" that I thought was really funny. She plays a Doris Day type character complete with all the outrageous outfits. 🥰❤
Midnight Star is awesome. Such great memories. We had a partyline when I was growing up in MS. we had several neighbors that shared the line. Your phone would have a special ring when it was your number dialed, but that didn't stop people from picking up and listening in on your conversations lol
Hmm. We had a party line for a bit when I was growing up. I don't remember the special ring, but you're probably right that we had one, because otherwise neighbors would've been picking up each other's calls all the time, not knowing who it was for!
Yeah, a lot of the phone references in this 1985 song wouldn't be understandable to people today. By the time of this song, you could call people directly on your (landline) phone, but just a few decades earlier, you would have had to call an operator first and they would connect you with the line you wanted to reach. The images in this video of an operator manually connecting lines in a switchboard was a retro touch that was probably supposed to be humorous: 'Remember when operators used to do that?! That was so old school!," And by 1985, party lines mostly occurred in rural areas for some reason. I remember hearing rural relatives talking about trying to make a call to someone and they would hear other people's voices from the town already talking, so I think they had to wait until the other people finished to make their call. There may have been ways to have an operator connect you with multiple people in the same area code too for a deliberate party line, but I don't remember that.
I can't find that you've done Herbie Hancock's "Rockit." You SHOULD. Not only is it a fantastic song that you will absolutely love and get down with, but the video was one of the most innovative in the early days of MTV.
We had a party line when I was young. We lived in the country and the other household on our line was our neighbor, my Aunt and Uncle. I was preteen and sometimes would spend a while on the phone, and definitely got into trouble for tying up the line when my Aunt wanted to make a call! Lol and sometimes you would sneak and listen to their conversations! Lol. Don't tell anyone though, ok? 😂
"Party line" was a monthly billing plan that split costs between multiple households, but you shared time. It was kind of like having a sibling on the phone, if you picked up your handset and there's somebody talking - you apologize and hang backup. Or get their estimate of how long they will be, and then try again later. Most often occurred in rural locations where a phone was an expensive luxury.
Music today can't EVEN hold a candle to the bangers from back in the day!! We danced ALOT back then...walk in the club dressed to the nines...walk out soak and wet...LOL!!
Fantastic song and one our staple groups that we would have on our party mix tapes for our teenage dance parties. Operator and No Parking On the Dance Floor were always played.
this played at every party and event back in the 80's i would out at a restaurant and this was playing one of my favorite songs from midstar its party time with this one still play it now.
You need to check out their slow jam, um, "Slow Jam." 😅 Also, "Headlines," which is similar to "Operator"; "Snake in the Grass"; "Curious"; "Wet My Whistle"; and others. I had an unintentional party line, a cheap cordless phone that every other cordless phone in the neighborhood seemed to interfere with. 😅😂
OMG! One of my favorite groups of the 80s. So many hits to choose from. Like Electricity, Freak-A-Zoid , Headlines, Don't Rock The Boat, and if you want to mellow down, check out Slow Jam.
The very first album I ever owned was a Midnight Star album. I was 10 years old and my uncle gave me the cassette tape. My favorite song by them was Freak-A-Zoid!!
Amber - a party line was a shared landline phone line. When I was little, my Mammaw and her neighbors all shared one phone line. If you needed to make a call and picked up the phone, it was very possible to hear your neighbor's conversation if they were already on. And if you really needed to make a call, you'd have to ask them to please get OFF the phone, which they might or might not. When I was a little girl in the early 70s, I used to say that I wanted to be a phone operator when I grew up, so I could make her neighbors get off the phone. In this musical vein, I requested Herbie Hancock's "Rockit", which was 1983. A few years later a band called M/A/R/R/S had a song called "Pump Up the Volume" that I think y'all would also really enjoy. Definitely getting into the electronic funky sounds of the 80s. That was such a fantastic and diverse decade and a great time to be a high school/college kid!
A party line was where you could have 3 or 4 houses on the same line but the phone would have a different ring to let the people know who it was for . It cost more to have a private line which was just one person or house on it .
Wowwww....😎 Haven't heard this since 4th grade ('84 or '85?) when my older brother brought the casette tape home and blasted it on our living room stereo.
OMG...its been years since ive heard this song....the 80's were so awesome...i truly miss those times and memories...such a great decade to have lived through...
Glad you covered this, it's an all-time great! Party lines allowed multiple people to share one line in a neighborhood. That's all i remember of them, but they were not efficient! Definitely have been some positive changes since then. The phone operator lady is homage to Lily Tomlin's "Ernestine", if you're into 70s comedy. There's a great bit where Lily and Cher have a conversation... Forget autotune, we need more vocoder! ❤ seriously, this song was so creative and awesome and the time and is just as energetic today! Plus, the phone booth is a TARDIS, hehe!
When I was growin up in the 60s my aunt had a party line. It was a phone line she shared with several of her neighbors. We used to get in trouble for picking up my aunt's receiver and listening to the neighbors' conversations instead of hanging up and waiting a while to see if the line was free. The party line phone service cost less than a regular private line, so that was the attraction if you were on a budget. BTW, I am loving the giant black phone receiver in this video; so comedic.
American Top 40 & was the BEST! That was the best way get to your ‘music diet’ in a pre-tech era. …spent many many Sunday afternoons listen to Kasey. Good times 😁
@@bigsteve9279 Same! I remember every song when it was popular from the time I was 4 years old. In 1976, I remember all of the hits! I was so into the music, even back then. It's so neat being able to hear those old countdowns anytime I want.
Thanks for taking me back in time to my weekends with friends, clubbing, dancing and having all around good times. Love Midnight Star… Freak-a-Zoid should be the next you check out.
Jay and Amber thank you for this i put this as a request also. You both make me laugh with your movements during the song your being yourselves which is how it should be. You are blessed.
"Operator" was Midnight Star's only pop hit in 1984/85. So Rob you were right on the date. They had over a dozen R&B hits in the 80s. Their other bigger hits were "Freak A Zoid", "Wet My Whistle" and "Midas Touch",
Yes originally party lines were used in rural areas where several neighbors had the same line. It ringed a different tone for each person so they knew when it was for them. Also a lot of college dorms used them for years. Great tune!
I remember the party lines. You actually would call a number and there were different "rooms" you can connect to and talk to different people. It's like chat rooms but on the phone. "Freak-A-Zoid" is just a fun song too. It's the kind of song where you're not even trying to swag or be cool, just let your freak flag fly. 😎👍
Love Midnight Star! Fun Fact: the operator that says “can you speak up a little louder cuz I can barely hear ya” was a real operator call. The group hooked up a mic to the phone and dialed “0”, so that was an actual conversation. The poor lady never got a royalty for being on the record. 😂
This was a Party Hit back in the Day!!! I am sure it is still making it's tour in the USA and Oversea for the Funky Dance Songs.... Great Selection... LOVE IT!!!
This is some deep, intergalactic funk, the type of tune for the poppers and streetdancers to get down to. I'm sure someone is going to suggest "Freak-a-zoid", but I would suggest "Night Rider" or "Midas Touch" from their 1986 album.
This one, "Freakazoid" and "Midas Touch" are my favorites from them. Glad you got to this one, this was a request from a long time ago, thanks for getting to it. Such a good jam. Song Suggestion: Five Star--If I Say Yes.
Another one from them is Freak-A-Zoid. Some more in this vein, Slave - Just A Touch of Love, Watching You, Slide; Tom Browne - Funkin' For Jamaica; The S.O.S. Band - Just Be Good To Me, Take Your TIme (Do It Right); Skyy - Call Me
When I was a kid, we had a party line. Cheaper than a private line. We shared with another household. When that call was for us, it would ring in repeating short pairs. If it was for the other house it would ring in long tones. If you answered the other ring immediately after it stops ringing you would be in the call with them and they wouldn't know it. If you waited too long, it would click on there line and they would know you were there.
A Party Line was when several homes shared the same phone wire for using the phone. This was a base fee and It was fun to pick up the phone and just listen in quietly. There was also an option for a Private Line which cost more each month.
When I was a kid we were on a party line with some random people in our neighborhood. There were various problems associated with that. First, the line was always open for anyone to pick up the phone, so if someone was talking they tied up the line for someone else and you had to just wait. Second, if you were talking, any of them could listen in. Third, if they didn't hang up properly, the line was still tied up, because you couldn't make a call until you got a "Dial Tone" which didn't happen until the line was disconnected. I spent hours sometimes waiting for a dial tone. That screechy tone at the beginning of this video was what happened if you left the phone off the hook for too long on a regular line.
I saw this group in a park in 1980 in Maryland. I was in the Army stationed at Fort Meade. Just got there and accidentally ran into this treat while exploring new territory.
Kid from the 80s here. Party lines SUCKED!! Lived on a dirt road several miles out of town in MO. To save money, the phone company had several houses on a party line. We had to share with 8 other households. If some one was on the phone, not only could you not use yours, you could pick up the phone and hear the neighbors conversations. Of course, they would hear you pick up the receiver so you wouldn't dare listen in. Most people were good about not hogging the phone but our next door neighbor would often be on for hours at a time. And if you dared to have a ten minute conversation when the phone was finally free, the neighbor would pick up the receiver, sigh heavily, and slam the phone down hard enough to ring the bell to let you know their displeasure. My family moved into that house in 1979 when I was just starting Jr. High. I dont remember the exact year, but thankfully, by the time I graduated high school in 1986, the phone company gave us all individual lines, so we didn't have to deal with that headache anymore.
I was actually quite little when these were being used and although at my house we had a private line, my grandparents lived in a neighborhood where there was a shortage of phone lines and the cost to get your own private line was much higher, so they had a party line. That meant that thier phone line was shared by a number of houses on their block. When someone called your number, all the phones at each house rang. You had a distinct ring so that people could tell who the call was for, but if anyone picked up the phone, they could hear the conversation. So there was no privacy. This was done because it was cheaper and there was a shortage of lines so it was all the was available in a lot of cases. This also meant they were also often used by the housewives because they could all just pick up the phone and gossip together at the same time. But it also meant people would often eavesdrop on each others calls or would often monopolize the phone meaning other people couldn't use the phone.
Party lines went out in the early to mid 60s and were probably mostly found in rural areas. Living in the northeast, every household had at least one phone on the main floor of the house and maybe a couple of extensions like one in the main upstairs bedroom and another in the kitchen. Some people still have landline phones in their homes today even if they have an iPhone.
My grandparents had a party line. It basically meant several houses shared a phone line, they didn't have their own private line. You'd pick up the phone to make a call and hear someone talking so you had to hang up and wait for them to finish before you could make your call. You could also, although it was a big no-no, eavesdrop on people's conversations! I think I got in trouble for that a few times! 😂
I thought she was talking about when you used to call in certain 1-900 numbers to talk to complete strangers in a conference call like atmosphere. You would pay per minute but get to have fun shooting the breeze with people you don't know. Kind of like social media over the phone! lol
Welp, y'all are now ready for FREAK-A-ZOID.. the reason I bought this awesome album!~ :-)
I didn’t buy alotta records, but I got that!
It was Freak-A-Zoid that introduced me to Midnight Star 😊
I’m reporting to the dance floor….🤖
Please report to the dance floor!
Yasssss it's a must !!! My favorite!
Love this group! Midas Touch, Wet My Whistle, No Parking on the Dance Floor, Freak a Zoid and Don’t Rock the Boat are great jams! But this song was what hooked me into them! 🤩
Love the way the main operator was mimicking Ernestine, one of Lilly Tomlin's characters on "Rowan and Martin's Laugh In", the iconic 70s show that launched the career of Goldie Hawn and others.
This and "Call Me" by Skyy were my early 80s jams.
Party line was shared phone lines to save money but u could be talking, then the lady down the street would pick up and ask if she could use the line, so then u would end your conversation.
Yessssss!
Don't forget "Start of a Romance" by Skyy.
This song, "No Parking on the Dancefloor" and "Midas Touch" my favorites and the dancefloor would be packed with people trying to dance 🎉🎉🎉
No parking on the dance floor!!!! Love it❤❤❤❤❤
You guys need to check out another great 80s group, Atlantic Starr. I would start with "Secret Lovers"
I don’t think Amber will like the lyrics to that song. It’s a beautifully sang song but it makes a married person a certain way.
@@stevensheegog3942 - I think they'll like it. Remember "Torn Between Two Lovers"?
Origin story: the term “give me the 411” comes from these days. If you needed a phone number and didn’t have access to a phone book, you dialed 411 for “information” and they could give you the number. For an extra fee they would connect you.
Today's kids wouldn't even know what an "Emergency Breakthrough" is. 😁
411 used to be free on every pay phone. Which no longer exists!!! I mean pay phones!!!
These were the best of times! I feel sorry for the youngsters now. We had the best old school music in the late 70s and early 80s
Midnight Star "Electricity", Midas Touch, & Slow Jam" my top 3 by them...
I remember 70s music like this.
Yes!!! And don’t forget Wet My Whistle!!
The entire band went to college with my aunt (Kentucky State). :)
When I was growing up in the country we were on a party line which meant the phone bill was low but you shared the phone line with neighbors. You would pick up the phone and accidentally hear the conversation of the person next door. We only used the phone for important stuff never casual conversation.
My grandparents had a party line. Grandma could pick up the phone and in a second tell you which neighbor was talking and to who.
Each home on the line had their own ring pattern for incoming calls; these were mainly out on rural farm lines by 1967 in Missouri, the year we shared a party line with three other homes.
There's a cute movie with Doris Day and Carey Grant where their characters share a party line.
That was Doris Day and Rock Hudson in "Pillow Talk."
@@1969madame Yes ! I love both actors. Ewan McGregor and Renee Zellweger did a parody movie called "Down With Love" that I thought was really funny. She plays a Doris Day type character complete with all the outrageous outfits. 🥰❤
They have several bangers “ Midas Touch” , “Tuff” , “freak a zoid” , “Curiosity” , “Slow Jam” , “Electricity” ….
Phone party line was the plot device for Doris Day’s famous Rom Com Pillow Talk(1959).
Midnight Star is awesome. Such great memories.
We had a partyline when I was growing up in MS. we had several neighbors that shared the line. Your phone would have a special ring when it was your number dialed, but that didn't stop people from picking up and listening in on your conversations lol
Hmm. We had a party line for a bit when I was growing up. I don't remember the special ring, but you're probably right that we had one, because otherwise neighbors would've been picking up each other's calls all the time, not knowing who it was for!
Yeah, a lot of the phone references in this 1985 song wouldn't be understandable to people today. By the time of this song, you could call people directly on your (landline) phone, but just a few decades earlier, you would have had to call an operator first and they would connect you with the line you wanted to reach. The images in this video of an operator manually connecting lines in a switchboard was a retro touch that was probably supposed to be humorous: 'Remember when operators used to do that?! That was so old school!," And by 1985, party lines mostly occurred in rural areas for some reason. I remember hearing rural relatives talking about trying to make a call to someone and they would hear other people's voices from the town already talking, so I think they had to wait until the other people finished to make their call. There may have been ways to have an operator connect you with multiple people in the same area code too for a deliberate party line, but I don't remember that.
My sister worked midnight shifts at an answering service in 1980 that had the old switchboard with the patch cords.
I can't find that you've done Herbie Hancock's "Rockit." You SHOULD. Not only is it a fantastic song that you will absolutely love and get down with, but the video was one of the most innovative in the early days of MTV.
Yes! I've requested it several times.
You all got to play "Rockit"!
The video was whacky, & fun to watch👍
We had a party line when I was young. We lived in the country and the other household on our line was our neighbor, my Aunt and Uncle. I was preteen and sometimes would spend a while on the phone, and definitely got into trouble for tying up the line when my Aunt wanted to make a call! Lol and sometimes you would sneak and listen to their conversations! Lol. Don't tell anyone though, ok? 😂
"Party line" was a monthly billing plan that split costs between multiple households, but you shared time. It was kind of like having a sibling on the phone, if you picked up your handset and there's somebody talking - you apologize and hang backup. Or get their estimate of how long they will be, and then try again later. Most often occurred in rural locations where a phone was an expensive luxury.
I Love this song i have this record a (45) along with Meeting In The Ladies Room by Klymaxx
Great reaction ❤
Hey big fan..you need to do Morris day and the time..them and prince play alot together in the 80's
No you did-unt!
‘Jungle Love’
Gotta do the movie/official video!
Morris Day & the Time!
Music today can't EVEN hold a candle to the bangers from back in the day!! We danced ALOT back then...walk in the club dressed to the nines...walk out soak and wet...LOL!!
MIDNIGHT STAR - " Freak - A - Zoid (Official Music Video) this is another Excellent one great vocals and and great beat , dance classics 🎶
Midnight Star should have been bigger than they were in the 80s. Soooo funky!!!
Rick James, the gap band, the daz band, klymaxx, Shalamar, Kool and the gang, grand master flash, midnight star. All great 80's music!!
Indeed! I love all those acts!
Been waiting forever for you or anyone else to react to this. One of the best dance hits of 1985.
Fantastic song and one our staple groups that we would have on our party mix tapes for our teenage dance parties. Operator and No Parking On the Dance Floor were always played.
"Let Me Tickle Your Fancy" by Jermaine Jackson featuring Devo has that talk box 80's funk that y'all love so much.
Midnight Star - Freak-A-Zoid. I remember the school talent show, 1983ish, and a couple of people popping\break dancing to this.
this played at every party and event back in the 80's i would out at a restaurant and this was playing one of my favorite songs from midstar its party time with this one still play it now.
This song got everybody on the dance floor. Another great club song is Meeting In The Ladies Room by Klymaxx.
This is a great group with many fun hits! One of the eighties finest!❤❤
their songs always got the dance floor full!
Yes!!! This song is the epitome of 80’s break dancing music!! My goodness, the memories ❤ Love it!! Thanks for this one ❤
Operator ~ was one of my favs back in the days on the dance floor! It's a 5-course muzik meal! So good!!
You need to check out their slow jam, um, "Slow Jam." 😅 Also, "Headlines," which is similar to "Operator"; "Snake in the Grass"; "Curious"; "Wet My Whistle"; and others. I had an unintentional party line, a cheap cordless phone that every other cordless phone in the neighborhood seemed to interfere with. 😅😂
Love it! Old school jams! We always had fun with this music!❤
OMG! One of my favorite groups of the 80s. So many hits to choose from. Like Electricity, Freak-A-Zoid , Headlines, Don't Rock The Boat, and if you want to mellow down, check out Slow Jam.
The very first album I ever owned was a Midnight Star album. I was 10 years old and my uncle gave me the cassette tape. My favorite song by them was Freak-A-Zoid!!
Yes we used to break dance to this!
Check out their "Freak-A-Zoid" and "Slow Jam"
Another old school JAM! 😃💃💃💃💃💃💃
Klymax "Men all Pause" "Meeting in the ladies room" - The Real Roxanne. Read for the World "oh Sheila"
I'm glad you did a reaction to this song. Awesome. Great hit. Another one is freakazoid
reminds of 70s FUNK
Amber - a party line was a shared landline phone line. When I was little, my Mammaw and her neighbors all shared one phone line. If you needed to make a call and picked up the phone, it was very possible to hear your neighbor's conversation if they were already on. And if you really needed to make a call, you'd have to ask them to please get OFF the phone, which they might or might not. When I was a little girl in the early 70s, I used to say that I wanted to be a phone operator when I grew up, so I could make her neighbors get off the phone.
In this musical vein, I requested Herbie Hancock's "Rockit", which was 1983. A few years later a band called M/A/R/R/S had a song called "Pump Up the Volume" that I think y'all would also really enjoy. Definitely getting into the electronic funky sounds of the 80s. That was such a fantastic and diverse decade and a great time to be a high school/college kid!
A party line was where you could have 3 or 4 houses on the same line but the phone would have a different ring to let the people know who it was for . It cost more to have a private line which was just one person or house on it .
“Freak-A-Zoid”, “Electricity”, “Feels So Good”
Freakazoid is da bomb.
Wowwww....😎 Haven't heard this since 4th grade ('84 or '85?) when my older brother brought the casette tape home and blasted it on our living room stereo.
OMG...its been years since ive heard this song....the 80's were so awesome...i truly miss those times and memories...such a great decade to have lived through...
This was a big hit, when I was in the Army. I often heard it & danced to it in the EM Club.
Glad you covered this, it's an all-time great!
Party lines allowed multiple people to share one line in a neighborhood. That's all i remember of them, but they were not efficient! Definitely have been some positive changes since then.
The phone operator lady is homage to Lily Tomlin's "Ernestine", if you're into 70s comedy. There's a great bit where Lily and Cher have a conversation...
Forget autotune, we need more vocoder! ❤ seriously, this song was so creative and awesome and the time and is just as energetic today! Plus, the phone booth is a TARDIS, hehe!
I had to pause the tv when I saw this get posted! Love it!!! Takes me back to high school!!!
Saw a great concert with Midnight Star, Roger and Zapp and Nucleus ( Jam on it ) and it was a great show
When I was growin up in the 60s my aunt had a party line. It was a phone line she shared with several of her neighbors. We used to get in trouble for picking up my aunt's receiver and listening to the neighbors' conversations instead of hanging up and waiting a while to see if the line was free. The party line phone service cost less than a regular private line, so that was the attraction if you were on a budget. BTW, I am loving the giant black phone receiver in this video; so comedic.
All kinds of Star groups happening in the 80's. Not only Midnight Star, but Atlantic Starr, Starpoint, Five Star, and Brenda K Starr 😊
LOL!
Total jam. Always good at the clubs, parties and roller rinks.
Herbie Handcock - rockit
Newcleus - jam on it
Kris Kross- jump
C & C Music Factory - everybody dance now
I just heard this song on an old Casey Kasem countdown YESTERDAY! No joke. I haven't heard this song since the 80's.
American Top 40 & was the BEST! That was the best way get to your ‘music diet’ in a pre-tech era.
…spent many many Sunday afternoons listen to Kasey.
Good times 😁
@@bigsteve9279 Same! I remember every song when it was popular from the time I was 4 years old. In 1976, I remember all of the hits! I was so into the music, even back then. It's so neat being able to hear those old countdowns anytime I want.
LOL I was just watching some old clips today of Americas Top 10 they have quite a few episodes downloaded.
FREAK-A-ZOID! Was THEE breakdancing jam!
One of my favorites ❤❤❤❤yessss we were on the dance 💃🏽 floor 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽🔥🔥🔥🔥
“Freak-A-Zoid” was the song that set it off for them but “Midas Touch” was my favorite from them.
Definitely an 80s dance song where everyone got off their rear and danced! lol
Thanks for taking me back in time to my weekends with friends, clubbing, dancing and having all around good times. Love Midnight Star… Freak-a-Zoid should be the next you check out.
Jay and Amber thank you for this i put this as a request also. You both make me laugh with your movements during the song your being yourselves which is how it should be. You are blessed.
When Jay heard that synthesized 80’s techno sound I knew he had no choice but to go robot! 😂
Hit the Dance floor many a time to this song.
"Operator" was Midnight Star's only pop hit in 1984/85. So Rob you were right on the date. They had over a dozen R&B hits in the 80s. Their other bigger hits were "Freak A Zoid", "Wet My Whistle" and "Midas Touch",
Yup 80s music,a great song to dance to 👍♥️🙏✝️✌️😎
Yes originally party lines were used in rural areas where several neighbors had the same line. It ringed a different tone for each person so they knew when it was for them. Also a lot of college dorms used them for years. Great tune!
Great song. I am so glad I grew up in that time. The 80's were a Blast!
The instrument they're using is a vocoder, which is different from a talkbox. There's also a voice changer from the 1930s called a Sonovox.
I remember the party lines. You actually would call a number and there were different "rooms" you can connect to and talk to different people. It's like chat rooms but on the phone. "Freak-A-Zoid" is just a fun song too. It's the kind of song where you're not even trying to swag or be cool, just let your freak flag fly. 😎👍
Love Midnight Star! Fun Fact: the operator that says “can you speak up a little louder cuz I can barely hear ya” was a real operator call. The group hooked up a mic to the phone and dialed “0”, so that was an actual conversation. The poor lady never got a royalty for being on the record. 😂
That early to
Mid 80s funk
Sound! This sound was predominant around then especially with bands like One Way, Zapp and Roger, etc
Absolutely a classic i'm glad this was recommended 😊❤
Some of the members were from West Michigan, Muskegon. The area code, 616, used to cover all of West Michigan counties along Lake Michigan.
This was a Party Hit back in the Day!!! I am sure it is still making it's tour in the USA and Oversea for the Funky Dance Songs.... Great Selection... LOVE IT!!!
This is some deep, intergalactic funk, the type of tune for the poppers and streetdancers to get down to. I'm sure someone is going to suggest "Freak-a-zoid", but I would suggest "Night Rider" or "Midas Touch" from their 1986 album.
This one, "Freakazoid" and "Midas Touch" are my favorites from them. Glad you got to this one, this was a request from a long time ago, thanks for getting to it. Such a good jam. Song Suggestion: Five Star--If I Say Yes.
80's baby !!!!!
i loved this song in high school, so fun to hear it again. We had so much great music like this, so fun!
Another one from them is Freak-A-Zoid. Some more in this vein, Slave - Just A Touch of Love, Watching You, Slide; Tom Browne - Funkin' For Jamaica; The S.O.S. Band - Just Be Good To Me, Take Your TIme (Do It Right); Skyy - Call Me
Wish music from the late 70s w m a c
When I was a kid, we had a party line. Cheaper than a private line. We shared with another household. When that call was for us, it would ring in repeating short pairs. If it was for the other house it would ring in long tones. If you answered the other ring immediately after it stops ringing you would be in the call with them and they wouldn't know it. If you waited too long, it would click on there line and they would know you were there.
Used to listen to to the girls conversation down the road lol
A Party Line was when several homes shared the same phone wire for using the phone. This was a base fee and It was fun to pick up the phone and just listen in quietly.
There was also an option for a Private Line which cost more each month.
80s electro pop was A plus in my book :)
Yep. Had a party line in the 70s. You would dial popcorn (on the dial) and you could hear others on the line
When I was a kid we were on a party line with some random people in our neighborhood. There were various problems associated with that. First, the line was always open for anyone to pick up the phone, so if someone was talking they tied up the line for someone else and you had to just wait. Second, if you were talking, any of them could listen in. Third, if they didn't hang up properly, the line was still tied up, because you couldn't make a call until you got a "Dial Tone" which didn't happen until the line was disconnected. I spent hours sometimes waiting for a dial tone. That screechy tone at the beginning of this video was what happened if you left the phone off the hook for too long on a regular line.
I saw this group in a park in 1980 in Maryland. I was in the Army stationed at Fort Meade. Just got there and accidentally ran into this treat while exploring new territory.
Funk! Back in the good ol' days when songs were funky without cussin', threats, nastiness, misogyny and insults.
Awesome dance song, club days yeah MTV days 👌😎👏🎵🥁🔥🔥🔥🔥
Kid from the 80s here. Party lines SUCKED!! Lived on a dirt road several miles out of town in MO. To save money, the phone company had several houses on a party line. We had to share with 8 other households. If some one was on the phone, not only could you not use yours, you could pick up the phone and hear the neighbors conversations. Of course, they would hear you pick up the receiver so you wouldn't dare listen in. Most people were good about not hogging the phone but our next door neighbor would often be on for hours at a time. And if you dared to have a ten minute conversation when the phone was finally free, the neighbor would pick up the receiver, sigh heavily, and slam the phone down hard enough to ring the bell to let you know their displeasure. My family moved into that house in 1979 when I was just starting Jr. High. I dont remember the exact year, but thankfully, by the time I graduated high school in 1986, the phone company gave us all individual lines, so we didn't have to deal with that headache anymore.
Midnight Star, banger after banger hits.
You may like The Egyptian Lover "Egypt, Egypt".
Yes. Africa Bambata was great
So awesome you did Morris day and Midnight star on the same day. They were on tour together last year. Saw them in June and It was a party.
I was actually quite little when these were being used and although at my house we had a private line, my grandparents lived in a neighborhood where there was a shortage of phone lines and the cost to get your own private line was much higher, so they had a party line. That meant that thier phone line was shared by a number of houses on their block. When someone called your number, all the phones at each house rang. You had a distinct ring so that people could tell who the call was for, but if anyone picked up the phone, they could hear the conversation. So there was no privacy. This was done because it was cheaper and there was a shortage of lines so it was all the was available in a lot of cases. This also meant they were also often used by the housewives because they could all just pick up the phone and gossip together at the same time. But it also meant people would often eavesdrop on each others calls or would often monopolize the phone meaning other people couldn't use the phone.
Party lines went out in the early to mid 60s and were probably mostly found in rural areas. Living in the northeast, every household had at least one phone on the main floor of the house and maybe a couple of extensions like one in the main upstairs bedroom and another in the kitchen. Some people still have landline phones in their homes today even if they have an iPhone.
My grandparents had a party line. It basically meant several houses shared a phone line, they didn't have their own private line. You'd pick up the phone to make a call and hear someone talking so you had to hang up and wait for them to finish before you could make your call. You could also, although it was a big no-no, eavesdrop on people's conversations! I think I got in trouble for that a few times! 😂
I thought she was talking about when you used to call in certain 1-900 numbers to talk to complete strangers in a conference call like atmosphere. You would pay per minute but get to have fun shooting the breeze with people you don't know. Kind of like social media over the phone! lol
You guys are really taking me back today. No Parking On The Dance Floor is my favorite Midnight Star song.
Hey Jay, hello amber man you guys make watching reaction videos a whole lot of fun. Love your channel, hello from alberta!
I definitely danced more during a Midnight Star than any ever!
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Kool & the Gang was hot too 🔥
I knew you'd go full 🤖, Jay! ✌️❤️
This song always reminds me of dancing with my girlfriend at the senior prom in 1986! That was a jam back then.
Midnight star "wet my whistle " live in L.A 1983. Whole concert is fantastic.