Behind The Song Episode 54: Journey "Don't Stop Believin'"

In this episode of the Behind The Song podcast, host Janda Lane takes a closer look at one of the most inspiring songs in classic rock: "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey. It's a song that has its roots in a phone call home, and it continues to make new fans through the decades in ways that the band never thought possible.
Music: Christian Lane
Video Director: Michael Collier
About Janda:
Behind The Song podcast host and creator Janda Lane is a radio DJ at WDRV-FM in Chicago, the city she now calls home with her husband and podcast partner, Christian Lane, and their two cats, Ollie and Liam. She is a transplant from Los Angeles, where she was a video director at Fender, Executive Producer at Yahoo Music, playlist curator for ITunes, worked in rock management with artists like the Foo Fighters and Beck, was on the radio at KCRW, and she was a DJ at online radio pioneer site Soundbreak. She has not worked a day in her life.
Follow Janda on Facebook and Instagram @jandalaneradio and on Twitter @jandalane.

[@DonJoyce]

(I can't believe this started as a Dad joke!). This song has been an important part of my own healing after the love of my life suddenly passed. After months of Gordon Lightfoot's Carefree Highway ("picking up the pieces of my sweet shattered dream"), Journey helped me shift into a more positive frame of mind. Lately Rod Stewart has held my interest. Your videos have introduced other perspectives. Clearly I am still a blubbering mess...but music helps so much.

[@xten1111]

Wow that's a real dad.

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IN. SPATELE. CANTECULUI_NU. INCETA. INCREDEREA. IN. BISERICA

[@robertsaul234]

Did you see the video of Jonathan Cain's wife, Paula White, chanting for angels to intercede on Trump's behalf in the election?

[@behindthesongpodcast]

Yes and it was quite an astonishing display. What is certain is that she had nothing at all to do with this song, which was written decades ago.