Song FAILED at #86…47 Yrs Later It’s the #1 HIT of That YEAR with 5 BILLION PLAYS!-Professor of Rock

Coming up we’re counting down the Top 10 songs from an unbelievable year. Some of the biggest rock songs ever, but they were never actually hits, and truly, most of these are even better than the hit singles of the day. We’ve got some wild backstories on this one, including how Queen's album Jazz was shredded in a nasty hit piece that called the band sexist. Then their big single Don't Stop Me Now from the album FLOPPED at #86. But decades later it became the biggest song from that year with almost 5 billion streams. Or how about Moving in Stereo from one of the best debut albums of the 70s that soundtracked the most rewinded movie scene of the 80s. It was rewinded and it broke a record amount of VCRs. We also have Devo album opener Uncontrollable Urge that was never even released as a single, but it’s made a million a year for the last 16 years straight because of a cable clip show. And last, but not least, how Steve Perry as a temporary roadie was promoted to Journey's lead singer and became one of the greatest rock singers ever... next on POR. MyBookie: Get in on the action with MyBookie. Use our promo code ROCK and any bet you choose up to $500 is fully covered. Go to https://www.mybookie.ag/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Producer Brandon Fugal Honorary Producers David Roche, Bob Bell, Holly, W.T.F, James Dorsey, Bruce Suit ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to the Professor of Rock Podcast Apple: https://apple.co/445fVov Spotify: https://spoti.fi/42JpfvU Amazon: https://amzn.to/44b5D6m iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/444h8MO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: http://bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan Merch Store: https://professor-of-rock-merch.creat... Instagram: https://bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of... #classicrock #70smusic #vinylstory #vanhalen Hey Music Junkies, Professor of Rock always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. If you remember playing the Intellivision back in the day, you’ll dig this channel of deep musical nostalgia. Make sure to subscribe below right now to be a part of our music history daily, straight from the artists. Alright, so we’re on our third episode into our new yearly countdown show. The one about the songs that didn’t break into the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. What do you think so far? I’ve been enjoying it. This time around, we’re setting our sights on the year 1978… when the Bee Gees were churning out Saturday Night Fever hits like Stayin' Alive and Night Fever, Player’s Baby Come Back went to #1, and the Commodores gave us not once, not twice, but Three Times a Lady. But if we dig a little deeper into the charts and beyond, I think you’ll see that some of the year's best songs didn’t actually make the charts. As a reminder, the criteria I am using for each song is the year that its album was released. Alright, in at #10 we have Boston with a seriously underrated single from their sophomore album Don’t Look Back… the song is Feelin’ Satisfied. So after Boston’s 1976 earth-shaking debut, that pretty much knocked the industry back onto its heels, the clock started ticking. Boston’s label, CBS/Epic, wanted to capture lightning in a bottle again—and fast. The follow-up, Don’t Look Back, arrived in the summer ’78, and it wasted no time climbing up the charts. But behind the curtain, though, the pressure was intense. Epic pushed hard for the 1978 release date, which was less than two years after the first LP. For some bands, that would be no problem. But for Tom Scholz and his perfectionist methods… it was a problem. Tom didn’t make records in chrome-and-glass studios; he disappeared into a basement lab and meticulously built songs like inventions. He wanted time to perfect his music. But the label wanted a delivery date. Soon it was an endless loop of phone calls… “How many songs are done?” Scholz, by his own account, had barely thirty minutes of music he felt was ready. But that was enough for Epic. Despite his protests, the company took the tracks on hand and released them as is. The final runtime was less than 34 minutes. The album would produce 3 singles. The title track, Don’t Look Back was by far the most successful, reaching #4 on the Hot 100. The second single was #31 "A Man I’ll Never Be.” And then there was Feelin’ Satisfied. I don’t know what happened. It reached #46 on the Hot, but it should have been a lot bigger. Tom Scholz has explained that “Feelin’ Satisfied” was written late in the Don’t Look Back sessions, essentially as the extra song to help shore up an already short album. Said Scholz, the record “was only 29 minutes; it had to be the shortest album that was released in 1978.