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Coming up, we’re popping the lid off another Time Bottle to let the music do the talking, with songs that transport us back to the end of a decade of great music. There's the song that defined the moment they came on our radio…coming up, we’ll tell the tale of an unknown band named Roxette that defied the odds to hit
#1 because an American foreign exchange student came back from Europe with their song and talked his local DJ into playing their song and hit
#1 virtually overnight. There’s also the story of a pop song written by a child actor, Martika, expressing the pain of losing a friend to a deadly drug addiction that even made the metalheads raise their fist…. Plus a crazy night where two rock icons, Ozzy and Lita, got so obliterated, they didn’t remember recording a song that would become a Top 10 smash….and an inspiring account of a resurrected hit by the band Sherrif that reunited a band that had broken up after the song was a big fat stiff 5 years earlier… And an Aerosmith song about a real-life X-rated incident that happened in a hotel elevator that fueled the return of one of rock’s most famous bands. Let’s do it.
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Honorary Producers
22Unchained, Thomas Halterman, Keith Novak, Yvonne Fus, Jeffrey Thorn
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Hey music Junkies, Professor of Rock always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. If you know what this is: (the 45 record changer) you’ll dig this channel of deep musical nostalgia Make sure to like share and comment to keep this channel alive and unsubscribe and resubscribe to get me on your feed again. I love the nostalgia we evoke on our DATED episodes, and I also love having the opportunity to pay homage to the great Jim Croce, the fallen American singer & storyteller that gave us “Time in a Bottle.” We’re borrowing Jim’s metaphor of a “time bottle” to capture the spirit of 1989 through 10 songs.
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#10 on our Bottle Dated 1989,## The leftover song that almost never made it. It’s how a throwaway became an anthem. Heaven by Warrant. “Heaven” wasn’t born in a major-label studio. Jani Lane — the Akron-born frontman— wrote it as a teenager, before Warrant existed. It was part of the repertoire of his earlier band, Plain Jane, a glam-punk outfit that opened for the likes of Guns N’ Roses on the Sunset Strip but never broke through. Then Plain Jane broke up. Two days later, Lane and his drummer Steven Sweet walked into an audition for an existing band that needed a singer and a drummer. That band was Warrant. They got the gig — and Lane had Heaven in his back pocket. They added the song to their setlist and the crowd loved it every time they played it. The crowd reaction helped Warrant land their deal with Columbia. But when it came time to record their 1989 debut, *Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich*, their assigned producer, Beau Hill, reportedly couldn’t stand the song and fought the band over whether it even belonged on the record.
The band won that fight — barely. Then the drama escalated. Columbia disliked Hill’s mix and quietly handed the track to another engineer to redo, with the band having no say. And once the single’s enormous appeal became obvious, the label took it a step further: Warrant was instructed to *re-record* “Heaven” entirely to give it a bigger, more radio-friendly sound. The first 250,000 copies of the album carried one version of the song; every pressing after that carried a different one. Most fans never realized they may not have been hearing the same “Heaven” as the person next to them. When “Heaven” climbed, it climbed fast. It spent two weeks at
#2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the fall of 1989 — Warrant’s highest-charting single ever and the song that would define them, and they wrestled to keep it out of
#1 by 2 fake bands, New Kids on the Block and Milli Vanilli. The most heartfelt thing Warrant ever did got blocked by an act that wasn’t even real.
Lyrically, Heaven flips the cliché. Instead of treating heaven as a distant reward, Lane insists it’s already here, embodied in the person he loves —
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