At the time of this Merv Griffin interview, Mardones was a 33 year old Vietnam Vet (hence the flag). After this song went to #11 on the charts in 1980, Mardones began a 9 year substance abuse hiatus, but came back in 1989, rerecorded it, the rerecording went to #20, and he continued to perform it live until 2017. He never had another top 20 song, but he knew how to squeeze all the wonder out of his one hit. He died in 2020 from Parkinsons, age 73.
This is a great song. I will always love it. I dont know yet whether this was mentioned, but the girl in tge video is Tawny Kitaen. She was 21. Thank God.😊
Mardones' first album is titled "Thank God For Girls", second album has songs titled "Too Young", "Hometown Girls", "Hey Baby" and the album is titled "Never Run, Never Hide" from himself or the cops? Then third album he clearly had too much to lose so he titled it "Too Much To Lose". Pretty suspect.
If you listen to the lyrics you'll see that "Too Young" was about dying too young and the others don't have anything to do with young girls. There are so many suggestive songs done by everybody, its hard to believe they making such a big deal about an obviously great song.
The interesting thing is that the song is about Mardones’ 16 year old neighbor, whose father walked out on the family. The lyrics are actually dealing with her feelings of abandonment and destitution. He hired the girl, as well as her siblings, to walk his dogs, among other things. It was actually Mardones’ writing partner Robert Tepper that made things sexual. He made a remark about her after she had left Mardones’ house, dressed rather maturely for school, after which Mardones replied, “Pal, she’s just 16 years old, leave her alone.” He immediately used that for the opening lines
Half way through this and they haven't addressed the even sicker part of this.. He probably toured for years after this, getting older and older talking about a 16 year old😆 Ha! Ok they did now. Love these guys
I remember thinking how creepy this song was when it came out, and avoided listening to it. Now you bastards have forced me to listen to this song more in 1 hour than I had in the last 30 years. Kudos.
Didn’t ant say he would fuck a 13yr old if it was legal back in the day when they watched that Hansen in Cambodia thing? I’m almost positive he said 13
I woulda been 9 years old when this came on, I listened to a lotta pop & rock radio back then, and I am not familiar with this song. I was always curious about how songs could be 'regional hits', especially listening to Kasey Kasem's Top 40 each week and knowing them all. Yet sometimes a song would show up on a K-Tel collection and you'd never heard of it. I assumed it was some payola type thing, but maybe it's just that my city didn't wanna promote different...lifestyles. Anyways, scratch that first line and you got a hit in the realms of Journey, Survivor or Foreigner (their eye-rolling, sappy ones)!
No, he meant if he could fly as in he's on a list. I think they're playing the re-release of the song from the late '80s with the video from like 1980.
Big jay really does think just because he knows something, that it is common knowledge. He takes joy in clowning on anyone who doesn’t get his very obscure references
4:07 What if Long Island beard dad walked in on them at this moment? He's about to get his Louisville slugger and cave a skull in. 😅💀 He doesn't even wait until the cover of night. Also notice the white van outside the window?
As funny as this is, looking back you can see that Dan was gonna leave. Hes the head chef at a restaurant that kinda doesn't treat him well but he still kills until he's bidded his time for another job
Well on the first episode they even talk about how hard it was to come to the agreement to start the show and then at the end when they talked about it Dan did say they both knew he wasn't going to stay on the show forever. It wasn't anything negative they both just knew it wasnt a forever thing
For all the incredulous music fans, I was born in '76 & have listened to this song on the radio (regular radio, "soft rock" type LITE98.1 FM) as far back as I can remember. Pretty sure it's an age thing. Atlantic Rhythm Section - _So Into You_ was commonly played, as well. _Afternoon Delight_ (rather brilliantly, I might add) slipped passed censorship & all was well. Kinda like The California Raisons, nobody back in the 80's consciously realized the inappropriateness. Anyone who grew up on FM radio has had to have heard this literally hundreds of times. It is what it is.. Being "offended" by a soft rock single is ludicrous. Different time when most people mainly just lived their lives privately. Which today would be nigh inexplicable.
I would consider myself a music appreciator of all genres ... ive never once heard this ... I watch a lot of movies to. Never once heard anything like this shiiiiiiiiiit.
