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#starbuck #moonlightfeelsright
Thanks, guys. I'm glad the marimba solo got to you. It was played by Bo Wagner in a one-take improv.
@starbuckmusic would you place yourselves in the yacht rock category?
Your music was a core element of my 70's childhood!
Solo is fire and so is the vocal!
@@monkeysuncle2816 The genre did not exist when I wrote it. But if people say it's Yacht Rock, then it is. I'm all good with it.
If you want to see the marimba solo live (our reunion show in Atlanta) - ua-cam.com/video/LZK9wImwtqE/v-deo.htmlsi=X_MSpN6uOT7qjGwQ
I love your song dearly. Always makes me smile.
For most people, say "70s" and they picture disco. Not me, THIS is the sound of the 70s😊
Disco was really only in the late 70's, really about 76 or 77 through 1980. By 1981, disco was done.
Happy Memories of this track, Miss Those Times.
So true, I've downloaded so many 70's tunes on my phone and maybe only a few would be considered Disco. No Abba or Bee Gees yet lol
People go by decades but the changes in music came mid decade. Mid 60's to mid 70's to mid 80's etc. I consider disco to be an 80's phenomena. I love the 70's music and am not a fan of disco.
Disco became a thing in the late '70s, and it was only ONE of many genres at the time.
Gino Vannelli- I Just Wanna Stop is a must listen for you guys.
Love that one!!
Wow memories! Good one!
Saw him in 1976 at the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh. He put on a good show. He of course looked amazing.
Also Canadian!!
I adore Gino Vannelli. He is so underrated. I understand that he is touring.
Hey guys! I just sent this video to the singer of this song, Bruce Blackman. ❤🎉
You absolutely have to link his reaction.
@@tlyon5196 I posted the video on his Facebook page and messaged him.
@@tlyon5196 My reaction was great. Love to see younger people getting into it.
Lol, Pete, you beat me to it. I think Bruce would appreciate this!
This was such a big summer hit in ‘76. The whole country had Bicentennial fever, and this song and Afternoon Delight were everywhere.
I remember the days. Nothing but love ❤. A kid with no worries....
I remember!
Happy days love from Durham uk
I'm 65 and I can't believe how much you young guys love the music of our days!
I envy the younger generation...so much great music to explore..Abba to Zappa..AC/DC to ZZ Top..The Animals to The Zombies...America to Zager & Evans ...Its great to experience these songs again.
Love the little chuckle before singer launches into chorus… hehehe
I also like that it’s the only pop song that references Baltimore and “Old Miss” university.
Ides of March " Vehicle " great 1hit wonder!!!!
Yeah, that's a great suggestion!! 😊
Great horns
Yes please
They would LOVE this!
This is my Summer song. Summer of 1976, my wife and I just graduated from HS and just started dating. 48 years later we're still together. BTW Bruce Blackman still tours and writes songs. Thanks for the musical memories.
Oh no, don't stop! There are so many songs like this that get missed by reactors, that need to be heard.
Thanks for doing these, it's been a real delight!
Picture it, Summertime in America, 1976 and playing on the radio " Moonlight Feels Right." Priceless..
I remember it well! Good times! 😊
You will NOT regret this tune ❤❤ Woohoo!
I remember driving back from a camping trip with my boyfriend in his Chevel. Summertime, windows down. I can smell, tastes, and touch this song.
I was a teenager when this came out and I loved it. Now, years later, I'm like dang, this song is SEXY!!🔥🔥❤️🔥🔥
Saw them do this live in 1978 in Michigan. The singer/xylophone player absolutely KILLED THIS!! In concert, the solo was extended and very complex. A very accomplished musician!!
"Moonlight Feels Right" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 on 4/17/76 & charted for 22 weeks peaking @ #3 for 2 weeks.
Loved the marathon guys, thanks. Please keep checking in now and then with a tune from the 60’s or 70’s. Lots of us baby boomers enjoy watching young adults react to the songs of our youth 👍🏼
Yes, please!!
Turned 16 in '76, was visiting SoCal from my small hometown of Astoria, Oregon, driving on PCH with the top down of my then gfs MG and this song came on when we looked at each other laughing "wow, this song was PERFECTION" it took a week to find an unsold copy to record onto a cassetted. I got home 3 months later and it was all over the AM and FM stations. Summer of 76 was something everyone should experience in their life...to die happy no matter what.
Some songs just alter your mood. When I hear this song, it makes me smile. Imagine it, driving your convertible on a warm summer night by the ocean, holding your girl's hand. What could be better.
Why would you want to stop this marathon?! You’ve hit so many great songs and have so many more to go! ❤
You guys like Boz Scaggs.You should check out "Love Look What you've Done to Me",.and "Georgia".
The live version is mesmerizing. Fine musicianship and superb vocals.
My favorite marimba solo!
And that sly laugh before heading into the chorus curls my toes.
Holy cow! Now that I’ve watched your reaction, I think I like this more now than I did in 76. I really dig your reactions.
The part that really hit was his voice - smooth & sexy & then the lyrics. You can't get better "lines" than you can find with this poetic version - & the good part is that he is warning her of EXACTLY what his intensions are - & how it will be delivered - in a sailboat at night with the moon shining down. It is up to her to decide if she is interested (at all - she doesn't have to go for all that he is hoping. Just let him know that he may be on the right track if he keeps it up.) As you said "it's fire."
The wind threw some luck in my direction, I caught it in my hand today. I think you made a sneaky French connection, you winked and gave me your ok...LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
The wind blew some luck in my direction.
I caught it in my hands today.
I finally made a tricky French connection.
Your winking gave me your okay.
It's such a crazy good song. They don't make them like that anymore 😊
You guys initially went into this as laying on a raft in a swimming pool, then you all ended up proudly on that wonderful yacht sailing free ha ha. 😎👍 This song is the definition of true happy. ⭐
Wow, I'm right back in the 70s with this one. The only song that will make you play air xylophone. Thanks for the memories.
You guys are great because you really appreciate '70s Am radio gold. Lol
Good to see the full crew! 😁
Oh boys this song made Maryland proud when they mentioned Chesapeake Bay.
I wonder if the one hit wonder musician's families ever see reactions to these old obscure songs and are like "DAD! These guys are listening to your song and they really like it A LOT!".
Yes, they do. MFR gets 50K+ airplays per week in 177 countries.
I believe the wife for the Ambrosia lead singer posted in the video they did of one of their songs?
@@StarbuckMusic Awww sweet!
@@Topgunphoto That's awesome!
It's one of my favorite all-time songs. ❤
Good song 😊
Another gem from my favorite year in music. The incomparable, impeccable unbelievable year of 1976. It was incredible to wake up nearly every day and hear another fabulous hit that would be destined to live in your heart forever.
Agree 100%. I was 12 at the time but remember all those great tunes like it was yesterday. Superb memories from 76!
That was my favorite year of my life.
One of my favorite songs, from when I was in grade school.
I remember I was just a little kid, headed towards Grandma's house (over 400 Miles if pavement ) for the summer, in eastern Oregon and this song came on.
The song, take me back to that day...
What a Day🙏
I’ve got a good one hit wonder for you…Dexys Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen! 1982. You will love it!
This superb pop song perfectly encapsulates the sound of the summer of '76. It truly captures the feel of a trip beside the ocean. I also love the way the lyrical rhyming scheme follows the A-B-A-B pattern, where first and third lines rhyme, as well as the second and fourth. You don't get that very often in pop music. (The tune reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.)
This song is so underrated. it's so good, totally different , and just plain awesomeness 💛
Bobby Caldwell … what you won’t do you do for love. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
That song deserves a video and has the viewers' support, one hit wonder or not. FULL STOP. 😁
Glad I am not the only one who thinks this song really needs a Listen! Love it
@@carolynbarker160 I have been trying for several months and nothing from them. I am not sure they even read these comments.
I love how Ty seems to know all these songs from my era despite his age. Nick too. I'm so glad you guys didn't miss out and just settle for what they pass off as music today.
Quite possibly my favorite feel good song of all time. Really helps if you were listening to it poolside in the summer of 1976!
This is a great song! Love watching you react to these great 70s songs. You would also love Strawberry Letter 23 by The Brothers Johnson, these cool guys who played what might be one of the ultimate 70s song vibes.
Oh and watch it with their video, so awesome!
Yes! "Strawberry Letter 23" and "Stomp" - so good.
The original "I'll Be Good To You" is also great.
Love me some Brothers Johnson. I also love the song Stomp & Light up the night.
Not sure how many might be aware but Louis Johnson also played bass on Michael McDonald's "I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)." This was with McDonald on vocals/keyboards, Toto's Steve Lukather on lead guitar, Toto's Jeff Porcaro on drums and Greg Phillinganes (Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson) on clavinet (the awesome keyboard sounding instrument that may be most well known in Stevie Wonder's "Superstition"). Furthermore, Lukather, Porcaro, Phillinganes, and Johnson would also all play on multiple tracks of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album (produced by Quincy Jones, who was associated with The Brothers Johnson) at around the same time as working with Michael McDonald. Talk about an absolute "best of the best" support band. Every player was a total all-star and it still shows today in all that music. 😁
This song really put me in a yacht rock mood. So, I am going to make some requests.
1. Holdin’ On To Yesterday - Ambrosia (their best)
2. Strange Way - Firefall
3. Sooner or Later (OR) Two Divided by Love (OR) Temptation Eyes - The Grass Roots (yacht rock ahead of its time 😊)
Nothing better than watching you guys react to yacht rock.
"Holdin' On To Yesterday" ALL DAY LONG!
Temptation Eyes! YES!!!
Holding on to yesterday kinda chokes me up. Beautiful song but saddens me also.
The Grass Roots never seemed to get their due outside of the time that the group was putting out hits. My dad was a big fan and that's how I was exposed to the group's music back in the early 1980s.
Michael McDonald's "I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)," The Doobie Brothers' "What A Fool Believes," and many of the early to mid 1980s hits by Christopher Cross are pretty significant "Yacht Rock" songs that the guys haven't got to yet on the channel as well. To a large degree, the guys have just "scratched" the musical water's surface when it comes to "Yacht Rock." 😂
Yeah, a summer song for SURE. Always fire, from when I was about 5 years old! The whomp-whomps are fantastic, but the best part 100% is, LISTEN CAREFULLY, for the singer to give out a "heh heh heh!" RIGHT before the chorus starts. Amazing marimba solo, the finest in rock history.
❤I have loved this forever! Sometimes one is the only one you need 🤩🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Wow..... I was camping on Assateague Island when this song dropped. And it turned out to be so prophetic. Met the girl of my dreams amongst the sand dunes. 😃
Great finale to the marathon!!! It's been AGES since I've heard. Thanks for including it. BTW--67 years and still not a coffee drinker 😁
WAKY is still going strong! WAKY 103.5 FM Please don't stop the marathon!!!!!
This was a sure thing! One of the great-all-timers in my book. Sounds as fresh today as when it used to spark up the radio and you guys captured its essence.
Keep spotlighting these lost gems. You also need more of the one of the greatest voices ever, Linda Ronstadt.
Lead singer’s voice has the Matthew McConaughey sound.
AMBROSIA' - " Livin' On My Own (1980) " (She Has A Heart Of Steel) Studio Version (1980) this Song is 🔥🎉🔥🎸 that BASSLINE & DRUMS INTRO is Insanely Good. And That's Just the beginning it gets even better throughout. Just by the title name one would expect something very different, but Believe me guys this song doesn't waste any time to get to that GROOVE!!! and these guys from AMBROSIA are a Spectacular l Musicians including Lyrics and Chorus. It's Right there with the music of STARBUCK of Course with their own creative sound. And believe me I've been listening to Groovy Music for years so I pretty much know about Hidden GEMS that get overlooked but I find them somehow
this song was very popular in the 70's
This reaction makes my heart happy ❤ You 3 are awesome!!
I got a good chuckle watching you guys react to the jazzy marimba/vibes solo. it's the same thing I did when I first heard that in the 70s... a "wtf was that?" moment. HA... I'm typing this and I'm getting to hear and watch you guys listen to it again. Cool choice... cheers guys!
Legend. This is classic 70's gents!
11:05 The WAKY radio and clown horn bit almost made me piss myself! 😅💧
Summer 76 had great songs, this was just one.
This reminds me of the summer of my Junior Year, it played all the time on FM radio, WNAP and WFBQ. We were always outside traveling around playing softball games and this song was at its peak of popularity.
This is one of the absolute premier songs of the 70's. That xylophone solo is the core of that action. Love it and your reaction.
Thank you so, so much for playing my request! I'm delighted you all like it.
❤😂what a great reaction, guys. Thanks for the smiles and the entertainment.
This was a fun watch!
I was thinking after the second verse: If the guys think this is fire so far, can't wait to see how much they like the marimba solo!
You did not disappoint.😊
I had forgotten about this and other songs you guys react to. I am developing a new appreciation for these great songs.
Just an incredible tune that was so creative. Especially for its time. This is near the top of my Yacht Rock playlist. The subtle bassline is underrated and really ties the song together.
You guys are the best !!!!!
MOONLIGHT …FEELS RIGHT ❤️
oooooooh yeah. loved this song as a kid of 8yo ... not like I understood a damn thing he was intimating. Thanks for the reaction!
Really need to see the video of them playing live. Cannot be more 70's they Starbuck
Check out the Midnight Special clip from ‘76!
@@rayeckert242 And this - ua-cam.com/video/Z1__oz2ViMg/v-deo.htmlsi=wIyy9lCpWXGucqt8
"Moonlight Feels Right" was a major American hit, peaking at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 the weeks of July 31 and August 7, 1976,number two on the Cash Box chart,and number four on Record World. It is ranked as the 34th biggest US hit of the year. On the Canadian chart, the song reached number three in early August 1976. It is ranked as the 51st biggest Canadian hit of 1976.
The live version is spot on also. The keyboard player looks like my old bookie, the marimba player is classic long haired , unbuttoned vest wearing hairy chested 70s, style. This came out in my senior year of HS, it was one of the fun summer songs that looking back now portrays in your mind a fantastic memory of the times.
You guys must be smokin' some good shit - the giggle machine is on full blast LOL Always loved this piece - native Marylander here, driven across Chesapeake Bay Bridge countless # of times.
I saw them do this when they opened up for Wild Cherry at Mississippi State somewhere around 76 or 77. I was like 12 and the entire arena filled with a certain smoke. They gave us a different type of atmosphere that we were used to.
My best friend and I went to our moms and they seem to enjoy the smoke as well.
I’m 59 now and I do remember that xylophone solo.
RARE EARTH - get ready
I actually heard a song pegged for you guys to react to…it’s a Toto song that features in my opinion the best vocal work of Bobby Kimball and I know how much you guys love him. The song is called “Cruel” and it’s from the Mindfields album. This album does not have any filler but was released at a time when great classic rock groups got no airplay for new music..you will thank me!
When I saw this coming up I knew you guys were going to love it. And as always, you all crack me up 😂❣️
I'm hooked on you three, and I KNEW this song would git ya!
Best marathon ever!!!😊😊😊
What a great summer tune.
Reminds me of hot days in Cornwall (England) on the Atlantic.
Fantastic decade.
Great song!
I love you guys!! ❤❤❤ I needed this laugh and you guys are just fun and hilarious! I love how you love 70s rock & radio music too! High school all over again 😂😂😂❤❤❤
Love love this song! On all my Playlists! ❤ Your reactions are priceless 😅
You have to see the live TV version of this especially the part with the guy playing the marimba
Yeah! I know you guys would love it. This is on my main playlist. This song was used during an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man... Which I was addicted to when I was young.😊 HE WAS RUNNING IN SLOW MOTION.
Please don't stop the marathon, all your reactions to these songs have been wonderful and you've barely scratched the surface. Here's a suggestion for your next song - I'm On Fire by the Dwight Twilley Band.
"Moonlight Feels Right" is the debut single recorded by the American band Starbuck. Written and produced by Bruce Blackman, the song was released in December 1975 but did not chart until April 1976. The song features a prominent marimba solo by co-founding band member Bo Wagner, who in the early 1970s worked as a studio musician in Los Angeles, appeared on The Lawrence Welk Show for three years and toured with The 5th Dimension, Roger Williams and Liberace. Wagner claimed the performance that ended up on the record was his first attempt, really just a rehearsal. But everyone seems to have realized they wouldn’t get it any better.
So many great wonderful one-hit wonders. Not just the 70s, but 80s and 90s. You could just keep this going indefinitely. I've really enjoyed it.
Bruce Blackman, writer and lead singer of this song, has a video that explains how he came up with the lyrics and all the ins and outs of this recording. It is fabulous info.
For Ty, This song was featured in a movie called "Stuck on You," don't know if he ever saw it. Evidently Matt Damon is in the movie. I'm so glad you guys did this song, I was in fourth grade when this came out and literally all of my sisters and me loved this song We couldn't turn the radio up fast enough when it came on. Please do another '70s song, by Nick Gilder, called "hot child in the City". I'm sure you've all seen the movie Big with Tom Hanks. I love this song, it's seventh grade all over again.
I was looking forward to this reaction as soon as I saw that you guys would be doing it. I was only 10 years old at the time of its release, but I immediately bought the 45 (& still have it after all these years)! It is one of the best summertime tunes ever & later on, after having joined Jr. High, then High School band & becoming a lifelong drummer/percussionist, I guess its obvious why I love this song. Although I tried, I never mastered that double mallet solo!!!
Ty's gonna love Bo Wagner's marimba solo.
Summer song 🌞
This song brings back memories of junior high school. Great music 🎶. These are my 3 favorite guys ❤
Just noticed the three are together again
This song was in the movies: Titans and Stuck on You.
Always loved this song! Had the 45 back in high school, lol
Three Rockers boppin to this is hilarious to me 😂🤣😂
This was a kinna like my own little secret song. My rocker friends, Ya know Floyd, Zeppelin, Rush lovers, would give me such a hard time for listening to this. I'm wondering now if they were secretly listening too! What a fun song.
Great to see you Ty! Love y'all ❤
I always loved this song...came out when I was in the 6th grade Yikes!
This was big here in Australia. Great song.
I love this song. I was just listening to it last week. Windows down and sunroof wide open. I just listened to him talking about how he came up with the lyrics, the arrangement as well as programming the Moog.
They tried to make them take the marimba solo out. Bruce Blackman put his musical foot down.
Correct. Record company said it was too long, but I knew they were full of it.
They certainly were.
I loved this song in 1976 when I was 8 years old. Bought the entire album.
You guys make my heart smile. Thank you.