The entire “Hi Infidelity” album is a banger. Song was a huge hit. There were three or four hits in the album. It was released in the fall of ‘80 and was one of the biggest sellers of 1981. It went platinum many times over.
This song was Gary Richrath's answer to fellow band co-leader Kevin Conin's "Keep On Loving You"(#1 in 1981) - both were going through difficulties in their relationships, Cronin with his wife Denise and Richrath with his girlfriend Debbie. Said Richrath: "When I wrote that, I woke up one night, half asleep, and sat down in front of the TV. There was a soap opera on it. I was just sitting there, strumming a guitar, thinking, 'God, these guys' relationships are worse than mine.' I just sat there and sang vocals about the effects of gossip and relationships breaking up, which was what was on the tube and all that was similar to what was going on in my life." The Hi Infidelity track "In Your Letter" also deals with a cheating woman. Kevin Cronin's wife Denise offered a retort in a 1981 People magazine story "They should have called the album Wives on the Run. The band gets all this sympathy and is excused for all that goes on when they’re on the road. No one even mentions the problems of the wives who are home alone." Originally, this was called "Don't Let Me Down," with lyrics geared more toward men than the final result.
This song would have probably charted higher if not for up the scorching guitar 🎸 solo. The more a song rocks out the less popular it is with the masses. I don't understand how that works exactly, because everyone I know seems to like to rock out to a good rockin song. But evidently the masses like the mellow stuff.
REO Speedwagon “In your Letter”, “Follow My Heart”, “Don’t Let him Go”, “Ridin the Storm Out”, “Keep the Fire Burning”, “Out of Season” are ALL great songs Plus there are so many more!
Great group and deserve more acclaim than they got. They were in an era that had a lot of great bands. REO has one of the best album title's and album covers ever.... You Can Tune A Piano But You Can't Tune a Fish.
This is completely my teenage years!!! So many amazing memories!!! My car stereo blasting as I cruise 12th St in my hometown. So happy I was a teen in the 80s...we had the best music! IMHO. ❤️
Excellent review!!! Thanks so much!!!!! 😀 I saw reo while I worked at the Montreal general hospital decade ago. I was so sick at the concert. My temperature was over 101F. I brought two nurses with me. One on each site to hold me up. There was NO way I was going to miss this show. I had been following them since the early 70s.
REO Speedwagon , named after the the little red wagon drag racer. Other REO Speedwagon songs to check out - Back on the Road Again, Riding the Storm Out, Can't Fight This Feeling, Time For Me To Fly, In My Dreams, Roll With the Changes, Don't Let Him Go, In Your Letter, Keep Pushing, Golden Country, One Lonely Night, Keep the Fire Burning, Tough Guys, and Flying Turkey Trot.
It was that guitar solo from Gary Rickrath, this song from REO, when i was 13 in 1981. I left pop music at that very moment and went full fledged rock. I haven’t looked back since and this song is as fresh as it was then. Timeless. Thanks Asia and BJ! 🎸🎸🎸
This song came of the album called HI-Fidelity and every song was huge of this album. They are all good and they all got played on the radio when that album came out.
Just saw them last Friday here in St. Louis along with Styx and Lover Boy. They still put on a great show! Lots of energy, sold out audience. Great fun and memories.
Grew up listening to these guys. Great band!! Off topic. My wife's favorite band is Halestorm. She asked if you had reacted to them. I was shocked that you haven't reached to one of the greatest Female vocalists..ever. Try Halestorm. They are amazing. Halestorm songs 'I Miss the Misery' or 'I Am the Fire'. (Asia would appreciate this song)!
REO Speedwagon were pretty big in the early 80's and they're from a small town in Illinois, their High Infidelity album is amazing. Roll With The Changes is another one of their other hits if you guys want to check them out again.
I love this song because it’s telling the woman that if you are messing around, did you take it on the run, and go. And I don’t want you around me anymore.
This was one of their biggest hits and yes it was on an album. Off their 1980 album Hi Infidelity. Album that went platinum 10 times over. It was HUGE and you pretty much couldn't go ANYWHERE without hearing someone playing it
Ah, there was a girl...When I was 7, my 13 year old babysitter had this album and she'd play it over and over. She'd play guitar on a baseball bat and she let me play the "air drums." I was madly in love...sure brings back memories.
Very big hit for them in early 80's Were mainly rock band through most of the 70's. This song from Hi Infidelity album which really put them on the map. One of the top albums in the 80's. Rock out to Ridin the Storm Out or Roll with the Changes.
REO Speedwagon was formed in 1967 but had their biggest hits in the 80's such as "Keep On Loving You", "Can't Fight This Feeling", "In Your Letter", "Don't Let Him Go", "Keep The Fire Burnin'", "Sweet Time", "I Do' Wanna Know", "One Lonely Night", "Live Every Moment", "In My Dreams" etc.
They are my mother's favorite band of all time. I went to see them with her early 2000s at the house of blues in myrtle beach. They are just as good live
YES ASIA ! lol. This is literally my favorite guitar solo in any song ever. Its not a bunch of tricks, its not complicated, its just melodic and grimey and soulful and beautiful ! And the slide at the verrry end of the solo says "there, i said what i said". Lol
I remember when these guys played in any garage and basement that would let them. From here in Champaign, IL to Galesburg, IL. (where I lived at the time) , and Peoria, IL.. They didn't get along all that great at first.. At least at the parties I saw them at.. But then, we were all drunk and high, so there is that..
Wife here..(so sorry I've been absent a little bit lately..,I've been extremely sick last couple of weeks).."Neighboorhood talking" U 2 are ADORABLE and can always make me smile!!🥰
"Take It on the Run" is a song by American rock band REO Speedwagon off the band's ninth studio album Hi Infidelity (1980). The song was written by lead guitarist Gary Richrath. "Take It on the Run" was the follow-up single behind the group's number-one hit, "Keep on Loving You". The single went gold on April 17, 1989. "Take It on the Run" has appeared on dozens of "various artists" compilation albums, as well as several REO Speedwagon greatest-hits albums.[1] The 2017 song "Messin' Around" by Pitbull featuring Enrique Iglesias interpolates "Take It on the Run".[2]
what a great song, you can really get lost in the sauce on that one! and they changed the tone on the backup guitar during the guitar solo, gritty and really hits hard. the drumming is simple but perfectly executed and sounds great. definately one where you are hitting the crash cymbals while they are playing it at the supermarket hehe.
That's my band i went and scrounged up dollars just to get the LP which i still have and proud of it Hi infidelity , Escape from journey and Billy Joel glass houses LP's in vinyl were my teenage years first purchases and when i tell you money was tight back then for me i'm not lying but i made it happen.
Gary Richrath was a PHENOMENAL guitarist. I miss him. I have this album, HI INFIDELITY, in my living room stereo console. It was the first album that I bought for myself. I think I was 13.
Take It On The Run is one of the tracks off of the Hi Infedility album that was released back in the 80's and one of the band's biggest hits. It's still getting airplay on the radio to this day. There are other great songs on the album as well. I recommend listening to the whole album and then you'll understand why the album was given it's title.
Genuis, the writer, the singer as well as the instruments were able to give life to that part of the heart that can't believe the rumors versus the part that does by the evidence seen amongst words not spoken.
I just discovered the band "Lovebites" - They are an All-Female Heavy Metal Band from Japan. UNBELIEVABLE!!! Check out the concert version of "Holy War"
I live this band, they had so many hit. But the thing I remember most about REO Speedway is the title of one of their albums; You Can Tune A Fork But You Can't Tuna Fish. It cracks me up evertime I think about it.
Kevin was actually fired from the band they didn’t like his writing of as they put it…lame breakup songs…..which all happened to him….but the band found out the hard way that his songs were top ten hits….Kevin said he was waiting for them to bring him back and they did….and the rest is history…..
Yeah,in the 80's, REO was big, I would see everybody wearing their concert shirts in HIgh School and saw them in concert at the midsouth fair in memphis,tenn back in the early 90's . You cant tune a fish was a good album and I think Hi Infidelity was the first album in the which this song was on. I looked, yeah, SO this was the first song on HI Infidelity and so the album was based on this song where he sings about his girls infidelity. lol I remember back then, the big ad in music was Hi Fidelity speakers, so they made a pun on that for this song is the way I took it.lol
Look up this video, a must watch best song and version ever by REO Speedwagon. The live version was more popular and replaced the studio version of this song. Unreal that never happens. REO Speedwagon - Roll with the Changes (Color Version)
Fantastic song! The entire album High Infidelity, released in 1980 was a masterpiece! Not a wasted song on it! It brings me back to my high school days! It is a travesty that REO Speedwagon is not in the rock and roll hall of fame and rap group OutKast is! Grand Funk and Styx should also be in!
REO belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
100% and so does Grand Funk
Hell yes, to both!
Absolutely!
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke.
Are they not in the RRHOF?! If not that's a disgrace!
This is my favorite REO speedwagon’s song. The lyrics, singing, and Gary’s guitar solo - perfect.
The entire “Hi Infidelity” album is a banger. Song was a huge hit. There were three or four hits in the album. It was released in the fall of ‘80 and was one of the biggest sellers of 1981. It went platinum many times over.
This song was Gary Richrath's answer to fellow band co-leader Kevin Conin's "Keep On Loving You"(#1 in 1981) - both were going through difficulties in their relationships, Cronin with his wife Denise and Richrath with his girlfriend Debbie. Said Richrath: "When I wrote that, I woke up one night, half asleep, and sat down in front of the TV. There was a soap opera on it. I was just sitting there, strumming a guitar, thinking, 'God, these guys' relationships are worse than mine.' I just sat there and sang vocals about the effects of gossip and relationships breaking up, which was what was on the tube and all that was similar to what was going on in my life."
The Hi Infidelity track "In Your Letter" also deals with a cheating woman. Kevin Cronin's wife Denise offered a retort in a 1981 People magazine story "They should have called the album Wives on the Run. The band gets all this sympathy and is excused for all that goes on when they’re on the road. No one even mentions the problems of the wives who are home alone."
Originally, this was called "Don't Let Me Down," with lyrics geared more toward men than the final result.
This song would have probably charted higher if not for up the scorching guitar 🎸 solo. The more a song rocks out the less popular it is with the masses. I don't understand how that works exactly, because everyone I know seems to like to rock out to a good rockin song. But evidently the masses like the mellow stuff.
Gary was a super talented and nice guy.
REO Speedwagon “In your Letter”, “Follow My Heart”, “Don’t Let him Go”, “Ridin the Storm Out”, “Keep the Fire Burning”, “Out of Season” are ALL great songs Plus there are so many more!
Ooh YES, Dont let him go is my 2nd favorite REO song, as well as In your letter is my 3rd favorite.
everyone always forgets the one that is most relatable today... golden country
Keep Pushing On, 157 Riverside Ave. Early stuff
@@johntronite2977 That should be Trump's campaign song.
Golden Country, by REO Speedwagon.😎
One of the best guitar solos ever.
Great group and deserve more acclaim than they got. They were in an era that had a lot of great bands. REO has one of the best album title's and album covers ever.... You Can Tune A Piano But You Can't Tune a Fish.
Early 70s Gary Richraft flying turkey trot live REO Speed wagon guitar solo golden country
This is completely my teenage years!!! So many amazing memories!!! My car stereo blasting as I cruise 12th St in my hometown. So happy I was a teen in the 80s...we had the best music! IMHO. ❤️
My favorite REO song.
This is one of my favorite songs I'm telling you 80s rock and 80s country are the best
Excellent review!!! Thanks so much!!!!! 😀 I saw reo while I worked at the Montreal general hospital decade ago. I was so sick at the concert. My temperature was over 101F. I brought two nurses with me. One on each site to hold me up. There was NO way I was going to miss this show. I had been following them since the early 70s.
REO Speedwagon , named after the the little red wagon drag racer. Other REO Speedwagon songs to check out - Back on the Road Again, Riding the Storm Out, Can't Fight This Feeling, Time For Me To Fly, In My Dreams, Roll With the Changes, Don't Let Him Go, In Your Letter, Keep Pushing, Golden Country, One Lonely Night, Keep the Fire Burning, Tough Guys, and Flying Turkey Trot.
Dang you didn't miss much hell of a list wow!
One of the first firetrucks were made by REO Speedwagons. With a sharp eye you can spot REO Speedwagons at the beginning of the movie "Big Jake"
Great list, "Someone Tonight" is a favorite from High Infidelity album
The entire REO T.W.O. album is a banger.
REO Speedwagon was a firetruck built by Oldsmobiĺe.
It was that guitar solo from Gary Rickrath, this song from REO, when i was 13 in 1981. I left pop music at that very moment and went full fledged rock. I haven’t looked back since and this song is as fresh as it was then. Timeless. Thanks Asia and BJ! 🎸🎸🎸
This song came of the album called HI-Fidelity and every song was huge of this album. They are all good and they all got played on the radio when that album came out.
"Hi Infidelity", and yes, a great album.
Yelp Hi Fidelity one of the greatest albums of the 80s and one of the greatest selling albums of all time awesome sounds!
@@Classicjack228 It's small thin kand I know it sounds like I'm nitpicking, but it's "infidelity" not "fidelity". Have a great day.
Yelp u right!
One of the best concerts I ever went to 1983
Just saw them last Friday here in St. Louis along with Styx and Lover Boy. They still put on a great show! Lots of energy, sold out audience. Great fun and memories.
I wanted to go so bad!!! My friends went and they were thoroughly impressed!
Going to see them too.
I saw the same show in Connecticut in September. Incredible.
Grew up listening to these guys. Great band!!
Off topic. My wife's favorite band is Halestorm. She asked if you had reacted to them.
I was shocked that you haven't reached to one of the greatest Female vocalists..ever.
Try Halestorm. They are amazing.
Halestorm songs 'I Miss the Misery' or 'I Am the Fire'. (Asia would appreciate this song)!
Both songs are great. I'll try pushing for those.
Love "I am the Fire"
I’ve seen Halestorm in concert many times! Great band and Lizzie has a fantastic voice!
Agreed
This song makes me want to go back to the 70"s and 80"s. One of my all time favorite bands. 🤘✌️
REO Speedwagon were pretty big in the early 80's and they're from a small town in Illinois, their High Infidelity album is amazing. Roll With The Changes is another one of their other hits if you guys want to check them out again.
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@@surlechapeau Oh ok, thanks
I love this song because it’s telling the woman that if you are messing around, did you take it on the run, and go. And I don’t want you around me anymore.
High Infindelity was definitely my favorite album by REO. Saw them in concert when I was 16 and they put on a hell of a show
This song made it to #5 on the Billboard top 100 list in 1981. So yes it was a mainstream song. Thank you Asia and BJ.
I have this album on vinyl and it's still one of my favorites.
Went to the record store to get this still have it…
“Back on the road again” is another GREAT song by Reo. Classic tune !!
Love, Love, Love this early 80s song. Reminds me of junior high school. Oh, the memories. *Sigh*
This was one of their biggest hits and yes it was on an album. Off their 1980 album Hi Infidelity. Album that went platinum 10 times over. It was HUGE and you pretty much couldn't go ANYWHERE without hearing someone playing it
Ah, there was a girl...When I was 7, my 13 year old babysitter had this album and she'd play it over and over. She'd play guitar on a baseball bat and she let me play the "air drums." I was madly in love...sure brings back memories.
Memories like that…they can make you cry. The 80s were the best.
Can't blame you for falling in love!
Very big hit for them in early 80's Were mainly rock band through most of the 70's. This song from Hi Infidelity album which really put them on the map. One of the top albums in the 80's. Rock out to Ridin the Storm Out or Roll with the Changes.
REO Speedwagon was formed in 1967 but had their biggest hits in the 80's such as "Keep On Loving You", "Can't Fight This Feeling", "In Your Letter", "Don't Let Him Go", "Keep The Fire Burnin'", "Sweet Time", "I Do' Wanna Know", "One Lonely Night", "Live Every Moment", "In My Dreams" etc.
Asia, you get it. This is one of the best guitar solos ever written. Richrath is an absolute beast on this song; guitar royalty was he.
No, he was not.
Totally!!!
One of the most overlooked and underrated bands in my opinion. REO SPEEDWAGON HAD SOME SERIOUSLY GREAT MUSIC !
Can’t Fight This Feeling is a good one for your next REO reaction
They are my mother's favorite band of all time. I went to see them with her early 2000s at the house of blues in myrtle beach. They are just as good live
REO Speedwagon
Tough Guys
Back On The Road Again
Riding The Storm Out
My fave song by this band ❤
YES ASIA ! lol. This is literally my favorite guitar solo in any song ever. Its not a bunch of tricks, its not complicated, its just melodic and grimey and soulful and beautiful ! And the slide at the verrry end of the solo says "there, i said what i said". Lol
Many great REO songs. Can't go wrong.
I remember when these guys played in any garage and basement that would let them. From here in Champaign, IL to Galesburg, IL. (where I lived at the time) , and Peoria, IL.. They didn't get along all that great at first.. At least at the parties I saw them at.. But then, we were all drunk and high, so there is that..
Wife here..(so sorry I've been absent a little bit lately..,I've been extremely sick last couple of weeks).."Neighboorhood talking" U 2 are ADORABLE and can always make me smile!!🥰
I understand
REO was mainstream rock in the 1970s/80s and very popular at the time. They were actually formed in 1967.
6/11/22, 11:50 a.m.
An REO Speedwagon was an old firetruck....
"Roll With The Changes" is a good one.
I saw REO at the Terrant County Convention Center when I was 17.
Best concert 👍👍👍
The guitarists we're awesome ☺️☺️☺️
This band had quite a few great records, they were great, I haven’t heard them in a long time
Definitely need to go down REO rabbit hole!!!!
Asia & BJ, their "Can't Fight This Feeling" is next for you!!
I particularly like that song when it was on Supernatural.
"If you leave tonight, keep running." Fantastic. 😎
"Take It on the Run" is a song by American rock band REO Speedwagon off the band's ninth studio album Hi Infidelity (1980). The song was written by lead guitarist Gary Richrath. "Take It on the Run" was the follow-up single behind the group's number-one hit, "Keep on Loving You". The single went gold on April 17, 1989. "Take It on the Run" has appeared on dozens of "various artists" compilation albums, as well as several REO Speedwagon greatest-hits albums.[1] The 2017 song "Messin' Around" by Pitbull featuring Enrique Iglesias interpolates "Take It on the Run".[2]
REO lives locally so I got to see them a few years ago. I had forgotten how hard they actually rocked! They put on a great show
Just saw Loverboy/ Styx/REO Speedwagon in concert Friday. (This is Monday) great 80s music,still sounds great and a great show!!!
what a great song, you can really get lost in the sauce on that one! and they changed the tone on the backup guitar during the guitar solo, gritty and really hits hard. the drumming is simple but perfectly executed and sounds great. definately one where you are hitting the crash cymbals while they are playing it at the supermarket hehe.
This song has one of the most epic crescendo in rock history. There is sooooo much energy in this song.
i would like to see Asia do some of these classic rock tunes. I think you could make them your own and would be sweetly entertaining
Great Song!
Arena Rock such as Journey and Def Leppard. My wife lost her hearing nearly at the REO concert in 1974.
That's my band i went and scrounged up dollars just to get the LP which i still have and proud of it Hi infidelity , Escape from journey and Billy Joel glass houses LP's in vinyl were my teenage years first purchases and when i tell you money was tight back then for me i'm not lying but i made it happen.
Love reo speedwagon
"Roll With The Changes" is arguably their best song.
Had the pleasure to have seen this band 6 times and worth it each time! Gary will always be one of my top 3 favorite guitar players
This song came out in my Junoir year of High School and was played constantly! Great reaction y'all!
Got to see this band just before they hit it big. It was in a small bar in Illinois. They rocked the place!!
Gary Richrath was a PHENOMENAL guitarist. I miss him. I have this album, HI INFIDELITY, in my living room stereo console. It was the first album that I bought for myself. I think I was 13.
There was nothing special about Gary Richrath. He was average at best. Dave Amato is an infinitely superior player.
Take It On The Run is one of the tracks off of the Hi Infedility album that was released back in the 80's and one of the band's biggest hits. It's still getting airplay on the radio to this day. There are other great songs on the album as well. I recommend listening to the whole album and then you'll understand why the album was given it's title.
Another REO Speedwagon song you have to check out is “Easy Money” from the Nine Lives album. That one is a rocker!
Greatest opening line ever
I was lucky , I saw REO SPEEDWAGON and Dave Mason in Memphis 1974. Great channel y’all.
Genuis, the writer, the singer as well as the instruments were able to give life to that part of the heart that can't believe the rumors versus the part that does by the evidence seen amongst words not spoken.
One of my favorite bands.
You need to hear 'Roll With The Changes'. Awesome song.
I adore REO speedwagon. You should try Can't Fight This Feeling and Keep On Loving You.
I just discovered the band "Lovebites" - They are an All-Female Heavy Metal Band from Japan. UNBELIEVABLE!!! Check out the concert version of "Holy War"
Being a Metal fan back during this era
This is one of the pop bands i actually loved
Cant fight this feeling is a must listen
I live this band, they had so many hit. But the thing I remember most about REO Speedway is the title of one of their albums; You Can Tune A Fork But You Can't Tuna Fish. It cracks me up evertime I think about it.
She’s in them streets being messy but he don’t wanna believe it cuz if it’s true then he don’t want her anymore
Love REO Speedwagon!!!!!
Love the acoustical guitar rhythm going on behind the lead solo.
Kevin was actually fired from the band they didn’t like his writing of as they put it…lame breakup songs…..which all happened to him….but the band found out the hard way that his songs were top ten hits….Kevin said he was waiting for them to bring him back and they did….and the rest is history…..
Don't Let Him Go. Next REO song to keep a hit streak going.
Great song. Great band with so many great songs. Love Kevin Cronin's wonderful voice. A round of applause please!
Great 80's band, love them n you reactions. 👍
Just saw them live a week ago in Chicago with Styx and Loverboy. They were amazing
I think, hands down, this is The most powerful ballad ever written, sang, performed, live and studio...pure soul food
You guys are awesome and Asia your so beautiful.
Listen! REO Speedwagon is the shit! I grew up in the 80s they were the shit! I’m 53 years old and I still frigging love this band!
It was an album cut, but it was a single, too. It was on HI INFIDELITY album. TOUGH GUYS from that album should be y’all’s next REO song. IMO. 🥰🎼
Yeah,in the 80's, REO was big, I would see everybody wearing their concert shirts in HIgh School and saw them in concert at the midsouth fair in memphis,tenn back in the early 90's . You cant tune a fish was a good album and I think Hi Infidelity was the first album in the which this song was on. I looked, yeah, SO this was the first song on HI Infidelity and so the album was based on this song where he sings about his girls infidelity. lol I remember back then, the big ad in music was Hi Fidelity speakers, so they made a pun on that for this song is the way I took it.lol
One of my favorite bands is Reo Speedwagon....u going to go back to more ACDC....maybe TNT live from riverplate
🙂 check out REO's 157 Riverside Avenue.
Look up this video, a must watch best song and version ever by REO Speedwagon. The live version was more popular and replaced the studio version of this song. Unreal that never happens.
REO Speedwagon - Roll with the Changes (Color Version)
It was one of their bigger hits off a GREAT album!❤️🤘🏻
Fantastic song! The entire album High Infidelity, released in 1980 was a masterpiece! Not a wasted song on it! It brings me back to my high school days! It is a travesty that REO Speedwagon is not in the rock and roll hall of fame and rap group OutKast is! Grand Funk and Styx should also be in!
Time for me to fly , In my dreams, Follow my heart , I do. wanna know , I wish you were there . Great band !!!
The beach days in Galveston, Tx!!!
Back when the neighborhood actually gossiped in person, instead of on Facebook.
Super Jam 82
Liberty Bowl Stadium
Memphis, Tennessee
REO Speedwagon, Kansas, Joan Jett and Survivor
I think this song was featured in an episode of Cobra Kai where Daniel and Johnny are in a car driving around.
Seeing them live is on my bucket list
The late Gary Richrath was the greatest guitarist ever. He wrote this song about what he and his wife were going through..
tough Guys, roll with the changes, Ridin the storm out
There were 5+ top 10 singles off of the album Hi-Infedelity.
I'd live to hear Asia sing this!