Tunes Tuesday: Joey Scarbury - Believe it or Not

Hey, I actually managed to post one of these on a Tuesday! Rejoice, pitiful humans! Here's the song of the day:

Joey Scarbury - Theme from The Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not)

I was browsing around Hulu the other day when I noticed that they had added some episodes of The Greatest American Hero - not sure when that happened, but happened it did. Unfortunately the episodes in their catalog start after the pilot, will probably confuse the shit out of anyone who has never seen this cheesetastic hunk of TV cheddar before, though I guess it's a nice thing to have for all the nostalgia nuts out there. But whether or not you've seen the show, you can just listen to this song over and over again and imagine you're "walking on air". Oh yeah, baby.

Now, chances are that if you're under the age of 40, you've probably heard the theme song from this show a bunch of times—it is frequently referenced in popular culture, after all—but never actually seen the show. Do you need to see the show to enjoy the song? No. Do you need to see the show at all? Only if you like really, really ridiculous things. Which I do. But that's another story.

Here's another interesting factoid for you: According to Wikipedia, this song peaked at #2 during on the Billboard chats during August 15–22, 1981. Which song beat it out for the top spot? Endless Love, as performed by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie. Why is that significant? It was the theme song for an incredibly ridiculous movie. Another case of the song being more memorable than the film or television production it was attached to.

But anyway, yeah, I think too much about this shit. Happy Tuesday.

Tunes Tuesday (not): B1A4 - 비원에이포 (Baby Good Night)

I swear, one of these days I'll start making these posts on an actual Tuesday. Maybe I should rename it to Tunes Thursday? Except it's technically Friday now. Shit. Anyway, here's the song of the day:

B1A4 - 비원에이포 (Baby Good Night)

This may come as a surprise given the name of this blog, but I don't really know that much about K-pop. My vague awareness of K-pop comes from watching Korean TV shows, and the whole reason I started watching those in the first place was because I was trying to learn Korean (good luck with that).

Recently I've been putting old episodes of Inkigayo on in the background as I do work to sort of "catch up" on the genre, as it were. A lot of the songs I end up sort of tuning out, but occasionally one or two make my ears perk up. This is one of them! I'm sure the fanatic screams of girls in the audience also helped to get my attention. While I don't find myself wanting to throw my panties at 20-year-old boy band members, I do think this song is cute, catchy and fun. A perfect pick-me-up during an otherwise stressful day. Thanks for the ear candy, B1A4.

PS If you want to see the Inkigayo performance I was talking about, go here and fast forward to 45:25.