Haltom High School - Buffalo Yearbook (Haltom City, TX)

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88 MUSIC Reunion Arena's scoreboard announces a Dallasfliort Worth welcome to Rush. Changes in listening REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar, became the big successesg country and sixties music return By Cary Stegall The music llaltom students listen to prob- ably changed more than it has since the late sixties. The growth of country and western and sixties music, and the influence of new wave music were all important factors. The Urban Cowboy soundtrack was one of the first hits of the year, as people from over the country became interested in the movie and culture it came from. Songs by joe Walsh,johnny Lee, and Mickey Gil- ley all gained the charts. They were soon to Alan Gratzer, Bruce Hall, Kevin Cronin, Gary Richrath, and Neal Doughty - REO Speedwagon v finally became big names with Hi lnfideliryf'

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MUSIC be followed by Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 from the movie ofthe same name. Queens Another One Bites the Dust became a type of school yell song much like We Will Rock You had done several years ago. The constant airplay given to the single even spawned its own parody, Another One Rides the Bus. Devo, a band that a few years ago was laughed at, had one of the biggest hits of the year with Whip It. This song began to impress some people that there was some new wave music they liked. Blondie only increased this belief with their Latin-influ- enced Tide Is High and new wavefdisco mix Rapture New albums by Rush, the Who, Cheap Trick, and other stalwarts became hits, while groups like the Cars, were not as well received. Bruce Springsteen made his awaited reappearance with The River . Styx's Paradise Theater brought out The Best of Times, which eventually became the class song. Probably the biggest successes of the year were REO Speedwagon and Pat Benatar. Both had several hits on the charts, in the case of REO. several at once. REO had been together ten years and had always done very well on the concert circuit. but High Infi- delity became their first chart-busting album. New releases by Tom Petty, ACXDC, Van llalen, and ,journey closed out the year for rock fans. The second week of December opened the next chapter in the life of the Beatles. as john Lennon was murdered in front of his New York home. Lennon had just released his first album in five years. Double lfan- tasyf' with his wife, Yoko Ono. A shocked group of fans soon began buying copies of all Lennon and Beatle albums, and soon all of the popular music of the sixties was receiving more airplay than it had in ten years. George Harrisons new album had a mem- orial to Lennon entitled All Those Years Ago, It featured Ringo Starr on drums and Paul McCartney on back-up vocals. Yoko Ono was to release an album based on the killing, according to rumors. McCartney's earlier efforts in the year included his solo album, which had simulta- neous hits with the solo and live versions of Coming Up. lle was one of the many peo- ple who invested his time in the LNICEIT concerts with the Who, Queen, the Clash. the Pretenders, and Tan Dury. Reunion Arena became the major audito- rium for concerts in the metroplex, replacing Tarrant County Convention Center. The only major group to play TCCC was Rush, and that was only after they had sold out Reun- ion Arena. ZW made a major change to album rock and brought the name Eagle 97 out of the unlikely call letters of KEGL. 1 Most of the popular groups in the pop field continued into this year. Billy joel was very successful. and groups like the Pointer Sisters, the Babys and several soloists were on the charts. Barbra Streisand did very well on her album combined with Barry Gibb. Kim Carnes' hit, Bette Davis Eyes was the highest single on the charts as the year closed. Paul McCartney, a fixture in rock music for fifteen years, released his second solo album in 1980. it X X S A... The Best of Times became the 1981 senior song and a hit single for the group, Styx. 189