Westwood One In Concert IC 85-15 - The Hooters, June 1985, Philadelphia

The Hooters
Westwood One In Concert IC 85-15
Airs 7/5 - 7/7 (1985)

Recorded at:
Tower Theatre
Upper Darby ("Philadelphia"), Pennsylvania
June 6 and/or June 7, 1985

Sides 1 and 2:
01 Steve Downes - In Concert IC 85-15 Intro
02 Commercial - Levi's
03 Steve Downes - In Concert IC 85-15 Segment Intro
04 The Hooters - And We Danced
05 The Hooters - Day By Day
06 The Hooters - Solid Rock
07 The Hooters - End Of My Rope
08 The Hooters - Concubine
09 Commercial - U.S. Army
10 Commercial - Snickers
11 Steve Downes - In Concert IC 85-15 Break
12 The Hooters - South Ferry Road
13 The Hooters - Hanging On A Heartbeat
14 The Hooters - Fightin' On The Same Side
15 Commercial - Budweiser (X)
16 Commercial - Snickers
17 Westwood One Network Promo - John Oates
18 Steve Downes - In Concert IC 85-15 Break
19 The Hooters - Where Do The Children Go
20 The Hooters - All You Zombies
21 Commercial - Budweiser (The Tubes)
22 Westwood One Network Promo - Bob Geldof
23 Steve Downes - In Concert IC 85-15 Break

Sides 3 and 4:
01 The Hooters - Time After Time
02 The Hooters - So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star
03 Commercial - Budweiser (B.B. King)
04 Commercial - Levi's
05 Steve Downes - In Concert IC 85-15 Break
06 The Hooters - Don't Take My Car Out Tonight
07 The Hooters - Amore
08 The Hooters - Nervous Night
09 Commercial - Budweiser (Dio)
10 Commercial - U.S. Army
11 Westwood One Network Promo - Meatloaf
12 Steve Downes - In Concert IC 85-15 Break
13 The Hooters - Who's That Girl
14 The Hooters - Birdman
15 The Hooters - Blood From A Stone
16 Steve Downes - In Concert IC 85-15 Outro
17 Steve Downes - In Concert IC 85-15 Promo

Runout grooves:
IC 85-15-1  JS KM
IC 85-15-2  JS KM
IC 85-15-3  JS KM
IC 85-15-4  JS KM

Brought to you by the Collective For Live Music
From the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection.

We'll start with this quote...with "the Hooters having come close to selling out two nights at the Tower Theater (June 6-7), management feels the band should touring nationally, too.  So it looks like the Hooters will be joining Don Henley for the Southern and Midwest portion of his summer tour in late June."

As you can tell from the two night near sell-out and the rapturous audience reception on this recording, the Hooters were huge hometown heroes in Philadelphia heading into the summer of 1985. "And We Danced" was released earlier in May and would go to #28 nationally on the Billboard Hot 100. That summer, it was #1 in Philadelphia.

This show was recorded and syndicated just weeks before the Hooters appearance at Live Aid in Philadelphia on July 13, 1985.  The high-profile Live Aid concert was the first time most of the country (and the world) saw them live. To quote Bob Geldof in Rolling Stone, "Who the fuck are the Hooters?" Apparently, Bob wasn't aware of their huge Philly following and did not want them to open the Philadelphia portion of Live Aid. 

But to Mr. Geldof's point, they were not known outside the area.  Three months after selling out the Tower, the Hooters headlined Wolfgang's in San Francisco, a 600 seat nightclub venue. The Tower has about 3,200 seats and they sold out two nights in June.  In October, they played the Tower again...and sold out five nights. That's 22,400 tickets in Philadelphia vs. 600 tickets in San Francisco.  And that's not counting that they played the night clubs in Philadelphia throughout the year, too.

The breakthrough led to national press coverage.  I've included a folder with articles for your consideration while you listen to the Hooters on the verge of national stardom.

As an ironic side note: "During a European tour back in the ’90s, Geldof opened for the Hooters. The irony was never discussed between the two parties. “We didn’t have a lot of contact with him, but we did several shows with Geldof and the Waterboys,” Hyman said. “We did get a bit of a chuckle about Geldof opening for us and, of course, we knew who he was.”

https://mega.nz/file/udwQmCjA#UXXrdcZHb0Gi_Csn-DS4oUGBGYvBDy9DmAwnaLsifZc

The Hooters / The Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA July 4, 1990 WMMR-FM

The Hooters

Recorded at:
The Art Museum
Philadelphia, PA
July 4, 1990
WMMR-FM

01 Hooters - Brother, Don't You Walk Away
02 Hooters - Day By Day
03 Michael Tearson - WMMR-FM Break
04 Hooters - All You Zombies
05 Hooters - Satellite
06 Michael Tearson - WMMR Break, talk
07 Hooters - 500 Miles
08 Hooters - Beat Up Guitar
09 Michael Tearson - WMMR Break
10 Hooters - Fightin' On The Same Side
11 Hooters - Karla With A K
12 Michael Tearson - WMMR Break
13 Hooters - And We Danced

Brought to you by the Collective For Live Music
From the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection.

The event was part of Philadelphia's annual Freedom Festival, which had several events that day. This part was a concert at 8:30 PM at Benjamin Franklin Parkway dubbed the "Bringing Down The Walls" concert.  Melba Moore sang the National Anthem and "Raise Every Voice And Sing." Also playing were Jammin', a Soviet rock group, Petra Zieger from East Germany, and the Hooters and Bricklin.

Also appearing was former President Jimmy Carter who was given the Philadelphia Liberty Medal and $100,000.00 cash prize from Bell Atlantic Corporation.

A review of the show mentions the irony of a "Bringing Down The Walls" concert having iron gates that kept fans back "more than 100 yards from the stage" so they couldn't see the bands.

https://mega.nz/file/vBZwUSKT#_5XswFQac9piWEXWk71x6EzQ5eufk2pdn6-Ne17xuCE

The Hooters / Studio Four / WYSP-FM, Philadelphia, PA December 6, 1983

The Hooters
Studio Four
WYSP-FM
Philadelphia, PA
December 6, 1983

01 Hooters, The - Amore
02 Hooters, The - All You Zombies
03 Hooters, The - Hanging On A Heartbeat
04 Hooters, The - Walkman
05 Hooters, The - Point Your Little Pinky
06 Hooters, The - You Still Belong To Me
07 Hooters, The - Scared By Science
08 Hooters, The - Words & Music
09 Hooters, The - Don't Wanna Fight
10 Hooters, The - Birdman
11 Hooters, The - Blood From A Stone
12 Hooters, The - Trouble In Paradise
13 Hooters, The - Concubine
14 Hooters, The - Fightin' On the Same Side
15 Hooters, The - Got My Own
16 Hooters, The - Man In The Street (cut off)

From the Sam Eliot's Mustache collection!

Early stuff... lots of unreleased songs here.  If you're a fan of the Hooters, you'll find this tape interesting.  Sound quality is pretty great for a forty year old cassette tape.

The last song ("Man In The Street") cuts off just before the end of the show, right at 59 minutes and 50 seconds.  This was likely the last song.  It's a cover of a Don Drummond & the Skatalites song that was a Top 10 hit in the UK in the fall of 1965. 

They dedicate the song to WYSP program director Michael Picozzi.  

Now...that's a pretty obscure cover.  These days, here in the future where we can hear every song by saying "Alexa, play "Man In The Street" by Don Drummond" it seems like nothing...but in 1983?  Who the HECK knew Don Drummond in 1983?

And yes, I just walked out into the kitchen, and said "Alexa, play Don Drummond "Man In The Street" and sure enough, the 1964 Studio Records 45 started playing.  Just like that, I ask for music and I get it.

The future is both wonderful (in that everything is available) and terrible for the same reason. Being ahead of the curve...like the Hooters... isn't special anymore.

https://mega.nz/file/mZJQFA5I#XoaHGZe-XEcdFNVLRrpmh9eMRArzQ3kBq8147SYNcgI

But seriously...the Hooters had interesting, diverse, and obscure influences.

The Hooters / Trump Plaza At The Boardwalk, Atlantic City, NJ Aug. 4, 1989 WMMR-FM

The Hooters 
WMMR Beach Concert
Trump Plaza at the Boardwalk
Atlantic City, NJ
August 4, 1989
WMMR-FM

01 The Hooters - Intro
02 The Hooters - All You Zombies
03 The Hooters - Don't Knock It Til You Try It
04 The Hooters - Satellite
05 The Hooters - Karla With A K
06 The Hooters - And We Danced
07 The Hooters - 500 Miles
08 The Hooters - Johnny B
09 The Hooters - Deliver Me
10 The Hooters - Give The Music Back
11 The Hooters - Brother, Don't You Walk Away
12 The Hooters - Fightin' on the Same Side
13 The Hooters - Hanging On A Heartbeat
14 The Hooters - You Never Know Who Your Friends Are
15 The Hooters - Day By Day
16 The Hooters - Mr. Big Baboon
17 The Hooters - Blood From a Stone
18 The Hooters - South Ferry Road
19 The Hooters - A Man Understands
20 The Hooters - Beat Up Guitar

Flac files of .wavs, plus two newspaper mentions of the show.

Okay...once more we dip into the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection for another WMMR-FM broadcast with another Philadelphia Favorite: the Hooters!

The show itself takes place in Atlantic City, which Google Maps tells me is roughly 60 miles to the southeast of Philadelphia.  

As a West Coast guy, I'm clueless about the East Coast.  

First of all, is it okay to call it "Philly" or is that nickname like "Frisco" which sets some San Franciscan's teeth on edge?  (Đ®åⒻṬëŕṽøï does not care what you call it, but I'm from the East Bay).

Secondly, how far did WMMR's broadcast signal reach?  The Bay Area is full of hills (1,000 to 1,700 feet) and some dinky mountains (2,400 to 4,000 feet).  No San Francisco FM station reaches sixty miles out due to the terrain, but New Jersey looks pretty flat.   Can an FM signal actually go that far?

I understand they weren't actually broadcasting FROM the beach, the antenna was whereever it always was....come to think of it, where do you put antennas when there's no nearby hill or mountain?

The setlist is huge, it's almost an hour and a half of music.  One of the songs - "A Man Understands" was an obscure B-side.  According to Discogs, the studio version was only released in Japan on a 3-inch "mini CD.

https://mega.nz/file/eQJDQZDT#pjXxt47DZIX6x9yj_Pej_7cu7L_EqSxj2SLv88_f5YQ