But just days before the albums scheduled release, a shakeup upended the label; their chief cheerleader at the company was among those sent packing. Marv and Rindy Ross have had an eclectic music career that has spanned more than 40 years. Pat Benatar - Promises In The Dark (Official Video) Chords: F. Bb. With a shoulder to cry on If there was show-and-tell, for me it was always a song, and Id rope in other kids.. She admitted the biggest influence on her work, however, was a man: her husband. That sax!! They were backstage someplace on Elton Johns Jump Up! tour when a rep from the label showed up to present them with their platinum record -- the first one an Oregon artist had ever earned. Heartbreaker (Pat Benatar) Harden My Heart (Quarterflash) Can't Fight this Feeling (REO Speedwagon) The Best of Times (Styx) Show Me the Way (Styx) Don't Let it End (Styx) Here Without You (3 Doors Down) My Stories 4; Favorite Stories 9; Favorite Authors 2; Sort: Category. Marv and Rindy Ross with Jon Koonce, backstage at Euphoria in 1982. By the time Benatar released 1983's Live From Earth and its lead single "Love Is A Battlefield," she was deep into her reign as the queen of 80s pop-rock. But his Oregon Trail experience didnt stay small. It sold 10,000 copies in Portland and Seattle and was the key to us getting signed to Geffen records. Takes me back to being 12 years old again. Published. Instead, the ensemble that first started playing Marvs song Harden My Heart carried the somewhat dorky name Seafood Mama. Marv was following his songwriting muse, he insisted, and that just happened to take them to glossy pop at the moment when everyone wanted glossy pop. Pete produced Dwight Yoakam, Michelle Shocked, Meat Puppets, and a very memorable track for Roy Orbison. When they posed for a photo, holding the evidence of the prized sales distinction, they were standing in front of a phalanx of garbage cans. "Harden My Heart" was a big hit on Portland radio stations and got the band a one-hour TV special, Seafood Mama In Concert, on KOIN on June 5, 1980. Any . The 70s and 80s were great This song was terrific . Harden My Heart. 2 min read. "Hungry Heart" by Bruce Springsteen. I still dance and sing this as if I was a little girl daydreaming about puppy love, God, i'd totally forgotten about this gem - wonderful times . For starters, the group wasnt called Quarterflash. Opting to continue as a four-piece, the group completed a third album featuring contributions from unofficial group keyboardist/guitarist Daniel Brandt; released in 1985, Back Into Blue peaked at No. Id winnow it down; Id tell him: Heres what got to me., Marv relied on this input, saying simply: I trusted her completely., The collaboration clearly worked, for more and more people kept showing up at their gigs. For a while I really was Joni, Rindy would admit. You said girl if this doesn't make you miss the 80's, i don't what the hell would. They'll come the truth in the end The chords are simple but voiced so as to make it sound more complex than it is. From a young age he wanted to be a writer, and he frequently holed up in his room to pen what he now calls bizarre short stories. Rindy and Marv Ross during Quarterflash's heyday. Portada; Foro. [8], The first version was recorded by Seafood Mama in the band members' basement in Portland in 1980. I'm gonna harden my heart, See also: And yet the music scene was booming. Darlin', in your wildest dreams, you never had a clue. I love how the various videos of this song have bikes in them. Hard to believe this was almost 40 years ago but as long as I don't look in a mirror I don't see how old I am. "The Heart of Rock & Roll" by Huey Lewis and the News. YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. An attempt at reinvention came in 1985, with Back Into Blue. Music writer Rick Mitchell called the album a hardboiled, high-energy departure from the familiar dark and moody Quarterflash sound.. They married in 1971, and after they graduated from OCE, they landed teaching positions in central Oregon. Waiting in the rain A second one-hour Portland television special, Quarterflash In Concert, was broadcast on KOIN on October 22, 1981, and simulcast on KGON. Surrender all your dreams to me tonight 41 on the U.S. The cable music-video channel MTV had launched in August 1981; Quarterflashs self-titled debut album arrived a month later, along with a Harden My Heart video featuring Rindy running around in a low-cut black leotard. Yes.Some people are just gifted with immense cool! And mother to lots of lost souls on Sunset Boulevard It is a million-selling Gold-certified single and was featured on the band's Platinum-selling Quarterflash album, released in 1981. There's something for everyone. Enjoyed everywhere, Lyrics for Harden My Heart / Pat Benatar - Shadows of the Night by Quarterflash. Now it became a Pacific Northwest phenomenon. Wow, how the 80s, hit you right in the face, what a great time in music history, 40 years later roughly and it still is straight fire, Love this I love the beat the sound everything and I love her voice I'm definitely a throwback. One thing about pop in the 80's that is undisputed is it was actually worth listening to. His lyrics tell a story, she said in an early interview. Product description. The adjustment back to everyday life, it turned out, wasnt hard. / I always thought I'd be . QUARTERFLASH - Harden My Heart -- PAT BENATAR - Love Is a Battlefield The rest was all Marv -- with Rindys help, of course. 6:04. (The Oregonian archives), They were swing music -- old-timey, Bob Wills stuff, with a fiddler, says guitarist Doug Fraser, who later joined Quarterflash. The label gave the band a big launch, and Harden My Heart blasted up the charts. It was like Liverpool in 1962, Doug Fraser says, only half-joking. THIS SONG IS STILL A TIMELESS CLASSIC AFTER 40 YEARS. And the ending of the music video with the flamethrower and everything else is so awesome and unexpected. Marv and Rindy pushed forward anyway. Quarterflash slunk over to Epic. The birth of MTV was like the coming of the Beatles. We were in our 30s. 3. But it is time you got the news 3:20. Robert Palmer. . Ok apologies for my life story. Comments are subject to review, and can be removed by the administration of the site at any time and for any reason. 'Your milage may vary' - a LOT. It wasnt clear what it was. [JUSTICE] You said - oh girl, it's a cold world When you keep it all to yourself I said you can't hide on the inside All the pain you've ever felt You better ransom my heart, but baby don't look . REO Speedwagon. I want those days back permanently. Just listen to the record, Rindy told one reporter. These Dreams. [5] The song also charted in Germany, New Zealand, Australia and the UK. Harden My Heart. Now and again in the years that followed, Rindy recalls, hed bring out his saxophone and play, which we all loved., Rindy and her sister would sing together while doing the dishes after dinner, and I loved kind of being a ham in school, she adds. "The only thing we can control is our reaction to that , said Swift. Not then, not now. Crying on the corner Waiting in the rain I swear I'll never ever wait again You gave me your word Words for you are lies Darling in my wildest dreams I never thought I'd go, oh But its time to let you know, oh Im gonna harden my heart Im gonna swallow my tears Im gonna turn and leave you here All of my life Ive been waiting in the rain Ive been waiting for a feeling That never ever came It feels so close But always disappears Darling in your wildest dreams You never had a clue But its time you got the news Im gonna harden my heart Im gonna swallow my tears Im gonna turn and leave you here Darling in my wildest dreams I never thought I'd go But its time to let you know, oh Im gonna harden my heart Im gonna swallow my tears Im gonna turn and leave you here I'm a-gonna harden my heart I'm gonna swallow my tears I'm a-gonna harden my heart I'm gonna swallow my tears Harden my heart I'm gonna swallow my tears No, oh, oh, oh harden my heart I'm gonna harden my heart I'm gonna swallow my tears I'm a-gonna harden my heart I'm gonna swallow my tears Harden my heart I'm gonna swallow my tears Oh, oh, oh, oh my heart I'm gonna harden my heart.https://www.facebook.com/lvngubrthlss. The series is set in United States in 1981. The video reminds me of those awesome early days of MTV. Marv and Rindys shared sense of humor -- that key attraction for Rindy back when they were 17 years old -- surely helped, their ability to look at the absurdities of life and roll with them. Pat Benatar was born Patricia Andrzejewski in Brooklyn and raised in suburban Lindenhurst, Long Island. Play Advices. sadly it seems like it's too late for that. It might not be funnier to you. A Christmas show became an annual tradition, and soon the band, as Marv and Rindys bands always did, evolved, jumping forward in time to music of the 1920s and 30s. One of the most underrated bands of the 80s. And I was in my early youth during that era and notice , as a HS teacher, my teenage students have a respect for it. Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 44 on the Cash Box Top 100. The band was originally made up of the two current members, Orinda Sue "Rindy" Ross (lead vocals and saxophone) and her husband Marv Ross (guitars), along with Jack Charles (guitars), Rick DiGiallonardo (keyboards/synthesizers), Rich Gooch (electric bass), and Brian David Willis (drums and percussion). Pat Benatar is a four-time Grammy winning musician with six platinum and four gold albums to her credit. And Seafood Mama wasnt even a pop band. Late in 2019, they shot a video for the song I Wont Sing Here Anymore, about evangelical Christianity losing its way. 40 years old and it sounds every bit as good today as it did then. May the Force be with you! Couldnt recall the band name or much else that I can say I know but this one is a legend. When Fraser joined the effort, the new group became Koonce-Ross-Fraser. In fact, after their label kicked them to the curb, Marv says mostly what he felt was relief. In general, I was his editor, Rindy says. It reached No. 1. People took musicianship seriously in the past. Clarence E Clemons/ Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Saxophone. He thought he had a lot to say. Hes gotten really good with lyrics I can relate to as a woman.. When Pat Benatar watched Billie Eilish's documentary, "The World's a Little Blurry," she was struck by the progress made by young female singers. Marv admits the bad reviews hurt. Your keeping it real. We all know this is a good song and Rindy has an awesome voiceblah blah blah. Since the year 2000. Glenn Frey. Fm. Recordarme? . Title. (Photo by Denny Andersen/coutesy of Marv and Rindy Ross), Jones Road featured covers of John Prine, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan. Marv and Rindy kept the momentum going as best they could. They did not set off for New York City or Los Angeles after graduation. There are certain 80s songs that give me an overwhelmingly painful and bittersweet sense of nostalgia. At the time, club owners reluctance to give the band a shot was understandable. I'm gonna swallow my tears 361,052 listeners View all similar artists. Without the likes of Patricia Mae Andrzejewski, famously known as Pat Benatar, today's rock music wouldn't be where it is now. Portlands First Couple of Pop, as they were once dubbed, have decided to keep it simple: intimate house concerts, just the two of them and a guitar, which is how they first started playing together in high school, more than 50 years ago. , Lets all go back in our minds the best !. Pat Benatar recorded "You Better Run" for her second album, Crimes of Passion (1980). I'm been waiting for a feeling that never ever came 3:56. Period. Another two for me like that are Suddenly last summer by the motels and Cruel Summer by Bananarama. / What if my heart gave me away? the winner of understatement of the year goes to @SavingWithCoupons, And it gets better if you keep on discovering was the shit,back then and didn't even know it. All of this proved the end for Seafood Mama. 60 It featured more sparse instrumentation but a more dramatic vocal arrangement than the hit version and was a regional success on radio stations in Portland, Oregon. What kept us sane was each other, Marv says. Canes apaixonantes e inesquecveis.. AMOOO ESTA CANCIN POR QUE ME RECUERDA A MI PRIMER AMOR REGINA ESPERO VERTE ALGN DA AMOR MIO . Create and get +5 IQ. Oh, they could play, he says. Seafood Mama already was a popular regional band. You gave me your word..but words for you are lies. When they finally did get the opportunity to play a popular Rose City venue, Rindy recalls, We had to call all our friends and beg them to please come down to prove we could fill the room.. Benatar's music video for the song centers around Benatar as a riveter dreaming about being a flying ace who fights Nazis in World War II.It features Judge Reinhold as a pilot and Bill Paxton as Nazi radio operator. I'm gonna harden my heart. (Swallow your tears) One longtime fan enthused online that she had been going to Trail Band concerts for years, and that Marvs original song What We Left Behind, sung by Rindy, always brings me to my knees., Next came an even more ambitious project: Marvs The Ghosts of Celilo.. She turns anguish, sorrow and disappointment into strength and self empowerment. Such great feel good music love the vocals. Its feels so close but always disappears I couldnt believe any of it was happening, honestly, Rindy says now, 40 years later. But again, they didnt set out for New York or L.A.; they still didnt hear stardom calling them. I came up with the lyrics very quickly. 559,788 listeners Loverboy. 287,957 listeners. Years later, it was Pat who sang classically, honing the powers of her 4.5-octave voice as a member of Lindenhurst High's musical . Was a child of the 80s and this song was everywhere back then. Must have been in a coma all those yrs never heard it until last night on my radio and I've loved music for yrs and yrs lol x. Go! They had a fiddle player, [with] Rindy on alto saxophone, so they could hit a lot of different textures. 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. In early 1982, it reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100[4] and also hit #1 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Madonna, interviewed on air by Clark, declared that her ambition was to rule the world.. Rindy came up with the sax line. The lyrics tell the story, the sax, the ache in her voice - it is all so good. I didnt want to be country rock anymore, Marv says. She owns the Venus Strip Club "Harden My Heart" does sound like a Pat Benatar song, and yet not quite. David Bowie's "Let's Dance" is about more than just dancing. Women would approach Rindy after the bands shows, grinning, agog that she could be front and center with that masculine instrument. Marv also launched The Trail Band, an 8-piece ensemble featuring the penny whistle tweeting, the spoons clickety-clacking, and Rindy often taking the vocals. All that ethos of pastoralism -- I was done with it.. The early 80s were a pivotal couple of years in our culture, points out DuFresne, who moved on from the covers band to Billy Ranchers The Unreal Gods. They saw me as a guy who wrote hit songs, Marv says, and that stressed him out. And goes to school for it? In 1991, Rindy and Marv Ross founded the historic music ensemble The Trail Band, which was formed at the request of the Oregon Trail Advisory Council to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Oregon Trail. cant stand it..cant even understand what they are singing! Im going harden my heart 26 more albums featuring this track . 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 (and the Top 20 in France). Never in my wildest dreams Hes very dedicated. Guitarist Jon DuFresne first heard about Seafood Mama when Blaine Moody, the bassist in DuFresnes hard-rock covers band, announced he was moving on. But it's time you got the news. (Im going to harden my heart) On second thought, this now DOES make sense - to wit: a crusty old character has trouble with squirrels, with one particular specimen deciding that IT needs to treat the old man as if he were an acorn. Pat Benatar. Im discovering a ton of 70s and 80s music during this pandemic like Quarterflash, Heart, Fleetwood Mac, Pat Benetar, Corey Hart, Laura Brannigan, Huey Lewis and the news, Bonnie Tyler, Hall & Oates, James Taylor ect Im in love with it. A timeless classic from the best band to come from my hometown of Portland, Oregon! Or sometimes get it. I was just starting out in life, early 20s, when this song came out. 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