Toto is a damned diverse band - the guitarist and drummer, Steve Lukather and Jeff Porcaro are two of the most prolific studio musicians of the 70s and 80s. They're on everything from Steely Dan to the *most popular MJ stuff. (In Toto: in totality, complete) - That last section is straight jazz-fusion. One of those videos I remember watching as a kid on MTV.
This song was written when a member was Dating the actress ROSANNA ARQUETTE who was the main character (actual ) in the Madonna movie I cant remember Chasing something
@@heatherjackson1894 Actually, it was Steve Porcaro, the Synth player who was dating Rosanna at the time, and the songwriter David Paich, who has said that the song was based on numerous girls he had dated, none that had a 3 syllable first name that was working with the music. That all changed when Steve brought Rosanna into a session and introduced her to David and the others in the band. I totally agree with your comment about Jeff Porcaro, may he and their other brother Mike Porcaro (Bass) RIP.
I don't see that anyone's mentioned yet, but this song has one of the most recognizable and challenging drum beats to play: the Rosanna shuffle. It's a cross between a few different halftime beats, the Purdie shuffle, the beat from Led Zep's 'Fool in the Rain', and the Bo-Diddley beat, according to the drummer himself, Jeff Porcaro.
Toto was a supergroup composed of many of the best session and touring musicians of the 70's and 80's. They decided to get together and do their own thing so there are musical influences in their music from all of the groups they've ever played with. No wonder their music is so diverse.
Other Toto songs to hit: Georgy Porgy I Won't Hold You Back 99 St. George and the Dragon Stranger in Town I'll Supply The Love Child's Anthem Make Believe Girl Goodbye Lorraine I'll Be Over You (with Michael McDonald on background vocals)
The song was written by David Paich, who has said that the song is based on numerous girls he had known. As a joke, the band members initially played along with the common assumption that the song was based on Rosanna Arquette, who was dating Toto keyboard player Steve Porcaro at the time. Arquette herself played along with the joke, commenting in an interview that the song was about "my showing up at 4 a.m., bringing them juice and beer at their sessions.*
🇬🇧 The 70s & 80s were the absolute best time ever musically. And i feel privileged to have grown up then & heard it all first hand. It totally warms my heart to see you yunguns (young people😊) listening to, and sometimes loving what you're hearing. 🎙️🎶🎼❤️
This song is SO MUCH FUN LIVE! I just got to see TOTO in concert, and holy moly is it FIRE! Today, i sing this song in karaoke bars and in my car ALL THE TIME! I can actually sing both singers' performances quite well! Don't believe me? I just won third place in a local karaoke bar tourney!
THAT is the INCREDIBLE Cynthia Rhodes dancing. Was married to music icon Richard Marx - and starred in Staying Alive (with Joh Travolta) and Dirty Dancing (with Patrick Swayze - who is also IN this video).
The girl in the red dress was the fabulous Cynthia Rhodes; she was the epitome of the dancer in the 80s! She was in Flashdance and dirty dancing which even have cult followings to this day!
Guitarist Steve Lukather sings lead on this song and he is a remarkable guitarist, one of two guitar players Michael Jackson’s Beat it and also played on MJs Human Nature. Lukather also sings lead on "I’ll be over you" and "It’s not the same without your love."
"I'll be over you" will always be my favorite Toto song and I love that Michael McDonald lends his vocals to it. He was quite popular at that time and one of my grandma's favorites, so we would always watch the video together on MTV
The drums you were trying to think of are "congas". Bongos are the small ones that you hold between your knees and play with your hands. Congas are also played with hands but they are much bigger and have stands.
Look closely and see a young Patrick Swayze as one of the backup dancers. He was wearing the grey tank top t-shirt. Later on, he and “Roseanna”, played by Cynthia Rhoads were in Dirty Dancing.
Happy Days was show with Fonzie! O.k. I was so distracted by the girl dancer and she looked so familiar, but she was so small on my phone and she never stood still so it took me a while. Finally figured out she was Patrick Swayze's dance partner (before Baby!), in Dirty Dancing, and yes she can DANCE! I have heard this song by Toto so many times, but have never seen the video. It was reminiscent of West Side Story so I agree with you that it seemed like a play. Toto is awesome. Saw them in concrt on Valentine's Day followed by Journey. Africa is my favorite song by Toto and they killed it in concert. Keep these going please. Loving ALL of it !! 😍
When you kept saying “Hold the line,” made me think of “Lay it on the line” by Triumph. Which I would love to see a reaction of that song, or Magic Power, Fight the Good Fight, anything by them. You’ll like them.
I loved ,Africa and Hold the line. It was great time to be alive music wise 70's and 80's. I was in high school when Roseanna came out.If I'm not mistaken the girl in the video. Was in Staying Alive and Dirty Dancing with Patrick Swazey, he was in this video too ❤.
Toto's awesome! The video reminded me of Grease!! She even resembled Olivia Newton John & the guys with the leather! Happy Days was the show with the Fonz in it!! 💥
Can't believe no one else pointed it out. But this is the first time I can remember seeing Patrick Swayze on screen. (dancer in red jacket, grey shirt) I thought you recognized him as your reaction at the moment when you get a good look at his face, 9:50 in the vid. But na.. Most people don't know he was a trained dancer before he became a successful actor.
They were all studio musicians, playing every week, working with the biggest producers (Individually and collectively, Toto members have contributed to an astonishing 5,000 albums, amassing a sales history of half a billion albums.). As Toto I think they took what they had learned and produced their albums themselves. This is a style that is now called yacht rock, a polished, posh sound with great writers, producers and musicians. Groups like Doobie brothers, Steely Dan, Chicago, Survivor, Foreigner, Journey (some of the members sang and played on each others albums). Top notch back in the day and still good today.
Cheeseburgers you want a Whopper and fries with that or a 🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕 did you want a Pepsi on the side what reference I don't know what you're talking about can you talk about food I need to go get something to eat
As I understand it, when Toto formed, all the members had worked separately as session musicians for years. In that role you have to always always adapt to whoever you work with at the moment, being able to give it your all and still not trying to take front position. So a bunch of excellent and humble professional musicians. I can't imagine a better setup for a fantastic band.
The story goes back even further. All the guys except Bobby and Hungate went to the same high school and played in the same band. Mike, who replaced Hungate, went to that school as well tho I don't know if he ever played in that band. Paich and the Porcoro boys' dads met while playing on the Glen Campbell show an introduced their boys to each other.
I saw Toto live in 2012. I think Hold the Line, Africa and Rosanna took them like a full hour alone for those 3 songs. They made them suuuuuper long with extended solo's and just some amazing jazzy stuff like the outro here in em too. They were fucking amazing, never noticed them play a single note wrong, missing a beat or anything. One of the better live performances I've seen, and I've seen 50+ bands live at this point.
This is what made MTV so, so special in the 80's. The waiting for the next music video by your singers, groups etc. If only, MTV could be what it was back when it all started. They would announce the next newest video the preview, the day and time...then we come indoors to watch it. It would be the talk the beginning of the school day as we roamed the hallways.
Toto is like you just took the best musicians of every instrument and tossed them in a blender. Their music is NUTS. One of those few bands that, like you were saying with the space shuttle music, will be with me for the long haul.
these guys are UNBELIEVABLE!!! listen to Michael Jackson's Beat it...EVH AND Steve Luthaker threw down on that one...maybe other members of Toto; I can't remember
There are other members of Toto on the Thriller album. Lukather played all the guitar on Thriller except for the solo on Beat It , that was Eddie Van Halen (R. I. P.)
“Rosanna” and “Africa” are both on the Album “Toto IV” released in 1982 (the bands best selling album). Toto IV received three Grammy Awards, “Album of the Year”, “Producer of the Year” and “Rosanna” won “Record of the Year”. Yes that girl can dance, her name is Cynthia Rhodes. She and Patrick Swayze are both in this music video and went on to star in “Dirty Dancing”, Patrick as Johnny Castle and Cynthia as Penny Johnson.
The reason why many of these bands you listen to have such variety in their sound, is because of the decades in which the music was made... The 70's typical 'sound' was very different from the 80's, which saw the rise of synth, and the 90's that delved massively into grunge and alternative rock. Many of these bands existed through all three of these decades, and had to change their sound to fit in with the times. While there is still a variety of sound from decade to decade... I think most of us will agree that the difference from the 2000's, to the 2010's, to the 2020's is not even close to the stark differences between the earlier decades. I think the internet has homogenized music to a certain extent. Songs and albums used to chart for FAR longer than today. I remember Def Leppard's "Hysteria" album turned out constant chart songs, and the album was charting for close to a full year. Today's music hit number one in a week, then disappears from the chart 2 weeks later.
This is great song love how they put all the music together horns piano keyboard guitar harmonizing singing love it .Toto was the studio band for many artists like Michael McDonald and Boz Skaggs. They also helped Michael Jackson with thriller album . Drummer Jeff Porcaro and guitarist Steve Lukather I grew up late 70s and 80s high school 90s best times I grew up for all music but I do love alot 60s and 70s music as well I listen to all music and have so much as I was a dj and always made mix tapes and cds as well for other people. I just loved doing that and bringing smiles to peoples faces with music. and there friends would ask them did you make that mix then they would say there friend me did it then id have to many people asking me to do it. Then I had to ask for some money for my time as it took so long.I remember the days when we had wait for it to pay on the radio and record songs to get if you didn't buy it lol
Love Toto.... I suggest "Georgy Porgy", "Lea", & "I'll be over you" my favorites. They did a lot of girl names songs too... such as Pamela, Rosanna, Melanie, Lorraine & Lea. Toto is just beyond amazing !! ❤
Wikipedia-According to popular myth, at the first recording sessions, in order to distinguish their own demo tapes from other bands' in the studio, Jeff Porcaro wrote the word "Toto" on them. In the early 1980s, band members told the press that the band was named after Toto the dog from The Wizard of Oz. After the completion of the first album, the band and record were still unnamed. David Hungate, after viewing the name on the demo tapes, explained to the group that the Latin words "in toto" translated to "all-encompassing". Because the band members played on so many records and so many musical genres, they adopted the name "Toto" as their own.
Bobby Kimball the high tenor singer on Rosanna (the lead singer on HOLD THE LINE) is living with FRONT TEMPORAL DEMENTIA. He's no longer performing as a soloist since 2017.
Gifted Musicians, amazing instrumentation, great lyrics: This was our pop music back in the 80's. We were so spoiled.
I would add, 60's, 70's into the mid to late 80's, then along came autotune and things quickly went downhill
It wasn't all good...Back Street Boys, WHAM... Just sayin'. But there definitely was some good stuff.
@@ffjsb I was only talking about Toto.
The 80’s had great music
@@ffjsb Backstreet boys were from 90s!
The blonde in the red dress "Rosanna" is the fabulous Cynthia Rhodes her credits include Flashdance and Dirty Dancing.
Is she the one that was married to Patrick Swayze? Or am I confusing her with someone else? Either way, she’s a fantastic dancer!
Also was married to Richard Marx.
@@lrsrosebud She was married to singer Richard Marx.
She was Johnny's professional partner. The one Robbie knocked up
@@lrsrosebudPatrick Swayze is one of the male dancers in this video.
This drum beat is iconic and easily in the top 5. RIP Jeff Porcaro.
I agree 100%!
One of the best shuffle beats ever put on vinyl.
The Rosanna shuffle ❤
Toto is a damned diverse band - the guitarist and drummer, Steve Lukather and Jeff Porcaro are two of the most prolific studio musicians of the 70s and 80s. They're on everything from Steely Dan to the *most popular MJ stuff. (In Toto: in totality, complete) - That last section is straight jazz-fusion. One of those videos I remember watching as a kid on MTV.
Lukather is on an estimated 1,500 albums. Back in the day he was producer Quincy Jones go to guy.
@@rogerdaly6326yep!
Box Scaggs’s backup band.
My last day of high school, I walked out to my car and popped in my Toto casette tape and celebrated my freedom with this song! Nice memory. ❤️
What a great way to end high school! ♥️
GREAT MEMORY!! Thanks for SHARING! :)
Must be an early 80s grad. 82 here.
I think we all had that. I may still have it…
@davidsanders5788 yes, you are right. CLASS OF '82 as well!!
The video is a take off of the Jets and the Sharks from the musical "Westside Story".
jamesknox7171 - You beat me to it!
When I saw "Jets" tagged on the brick wall, it all fell into place. No one who's seen "Westside Story" could miss the references.
This song was written when a member was Dating the actress ROSANNA ARQUETTE who was the main character (actual ) in the Madonna movie I cant remember Chasing something
Yes, "Desperately Seeking Susan" was the movie! She was also great in Pulp Fiction!
She was dating Jeff Pacaro the drummer. One of the baddest mf on a set
@@heatherjackson1894 Actually, it was Steve Porcaro, the Synth player who was dating Rosanna at the time, and the songwriter David Paich, who has said that the song was based on numerous girls he had dated, none that had a 3 syllable first name that was working with the music. That all changed when Steve brought Rosanna into a session and introduced her to David and the others in the band. I totally agree with your comment about Jeff Porcaro, may he and their other brother Mike Porcaro (Bass) RIP.
That shuffle pattern on the drums is legendary. We were so spoiled back then. BTW The show was Happy Days.
I don't see that anyone's mentioned yet, but this song has one of the most recognizable and challenging drum beats to play: the Rosanna shuffle. It's a cross between a few different halftime beats, the Purdie shuffle, the beat from Led Zep's 'Fool in the Rain', and the Bo-Diddley beat, according to the drummer himself, Jeff Porcaro.
Jeff is easily one of the top ten drummers. Oh, and he's chewing gum at the same time too...
RIP Jeff and Mike Porcaro.
Georgy Porgy is a must to react to by Toto!
❤❤❤
The tempo changes during this song are extreme - the Rosanna Shuffle is taught to all drum students - it’s so iconic. Thanks for showing this!!!!!
Toto was a supergroup composed of many of the best session and touring musicians of the 70's and 80's. They decided to get together and do their own thing so there are musical influences in their music from all of the groups they've ever played with. No wonder their music is so diverse.
The show with Fonzie is 'Happy Days'. Go back and look at the dancers closely to see a young Patrick Swayze!
Other Toto songs to hit:
Georgy Porgy
I Won't Hold You Back
99
St. George and the Dragon
Stranger in Town
I'll Supply The Love
Child's Anthem
Make Believe
Girl Goodbye
Lorraine
I'll Be Over You (with Michael McDonald on background vocals)
I love Toto! Once I found a tour shirt at goodwill, and it is part of my every day wardrobe!
The song was written by David Paich, who has said that the song is based on numerous girls he had known. As a joke, the band members initially played along with the common assumption that the song was based on Rosanna Arquette, who was dating Toto keyboard player Steve Porcaro at the time. Arquette herself played along with the joke, commenting in an interview that the song was about "my showing up at 4 a.m., bringing them juice and beer at their sessions.*
Well...the who know know I guess...years long joke,huh ?
@@Cchan53 That is what the page said...I just copied it. I thought so too, nuts.
Thank You for playing this song!! 🎵
🇬🇧 The 70s & 80s were the absolute best time ever musically. And i feel privileged to have grown up then & heard it all first hand. It totally warms my heart to see you yunguns (young people😊) listening to, and sometimes loving what you're hearing. 🎙️🎶🎼❤️
Rosanna is Cynthia Rhodes. Married to singer Richard Marx! She was in Flashdance & Dirty Dancing to name a few
My favorite Toto song - "Pamela"
I was in love with the girl in the blue sweater in that video during high school....
Toto has a signature sound. Love them!
This song is SO MUCH FUN LIVE! I just got to see TOTO in concert, and holy moly is it FIRE! Today, i sing this song in karaoke bars and in my car ALL THE TIME! I can actually sing both singers' performances quite well! Don't believe me? I just won third place in a local karaoke bar tourney!
Henry Winkler played Fonzie (The Fonz) in Happy Days.
THAT is the INCREDIBLE Cynthia Rhodes dancing. Was married to music icon Richard Marx - and starred in Staying Alive (with Joh Travolta) and Dirty Dancing (with Patrick Swayze - who is also IN this video).
I knew about Cynthia Rhodes in this but never knew about Patrick Swayze. I had back up the video to see him.
@@chantellecline6945 I didn't know either until I started watching these reaction videos. He's SO young - almost unrecognizable.
Thanks for confirming that was Patrick Swayze I saw.
The girl in the red dress was the fabulous Cynthia Rhodes; she was the epitome of the dancer in the 80s! She was in Flashdance and dirty dancing which even have cult followings to this day!
I'm a proud member of that cult :-)
me too!
This song was written about actress Rosanna Arquette whom the lead singer dated. The gang dance was inspired by the play West Side Story
Just an incredible band. GREAT musicians and singers.
Yes, Bobby Kimball's voice is amazing. Steve Lukather's solo is so freaking epic.
to a time when it was the voice and not the looks.... So glad I grew up in that
This band is made up top shelf studio musicians.
Now do "I won't hold you back". One of the most BEAUTIFUL songs ever written.
The name is easy... Wizard of Oz
One of my best memories of Toto was their song "99". A quieter love song, but somehow this one just stays with me.
Jeff Porcaro's shuffle is legendary.
I love toto music
Guitarist Steve Lukather sings lead on this song and he is a remarkable guitarist, one of two guitar players Michael Jackson’s Beat it and also played on MJs Human Nature. Lukather also sings lead on "I’ll be over you" and "It’s not the same without your love."
"I'll be over you" will always be my favorite Toto song and I love that Michael McDonald lends his vocals to it. He was quite popular at that time and one of my grandma's favorites, so we would always watch the video together on MTV
The dancer is Cynthia Rhodes, Penny from Dirty Dancing, used to be married to Richard Marx, was in Stayin Alive and Flash Dance.
Saw Toto just this last Monday live. They’re just as good as they were then.
The drums you were trying to think of are "congas". Bongos are the small ones that you hold between your knees and play with your hands. Congas are also played with hands but they are much bigger and have stands.
Look closely and see a young Patrick Swayze as one of the backup dancers. He was wearing the grey tank top t-shirt. Later on, he and “Roseanna”, played by Cynthia Rhoads were in Dirty Dancing.
TOTO is a DEEP DIVE of reactions to keep you busy for a few months!
Happy Days was show with Fonzie! O.k. I was so distracted by the girl dancer and she looked so familiar, but she was so small on my phone and she never stood still so it took me a while. Finally figured out she was Patrick Swayze's dance partner (before Baby!), in Dirty Dancing, and yes she can DANCE! I have heard this song by Toto so many times, but have never seen the video. It was reminiscent of West Side Story so I agree with you that it seemed like a play. Toto is awesome. Saw them in concrt on Valentine's Day followed by Journey. Africa is my favorite song by Toto and they killed it in concert. Keep these going please. Loving ALL of it !! 😍
When you kept saying “Hold the line,” made me think of “Lay it on the line” by Triumph. Which I would love to see a reaction of that song, or Magic Power, Fight the Good Fight, anything by them. You’ll like them.
Toto is the brave little dog in _The Wizard of Oz._
I loved ,Africa and Hold the line. It was great time to be alive music wise 70's and 80's. I was in high school when Roseanna came out.If I'm not mistaken the girl in the video. Was in Staying Alive and Dirty Dancing with Patrick Swazey, he was in this video too ❤.
Toto's awesome! The video reminded me of Grease!! She even resembled Olivia Newton John & the guys with the leather! Happy Days was the show with the Fonz in it!! 💥
It was written about Rosanna Arquette
(an actress that, amongst others, plays the wife of the dealer in Pulp Fiction )
That's a very common misconception.
Can't believe no one else pointed it out. But this is the first time I can remember seeing Patrick Swayze on screen. (dancer in red jacket, grey shirt) I thought you recognized him as your reaction at the moment when you get a good look at his face, 9:50 in the vid. But na.. Most people don't know he was a trained dancer before he became a successful actor.
Waiting For Your Love is a MUST LISTEN for you!!!!!!!
They were all studio musicians, playing every week, working with the biggest producers (Individually and collectively, Toto members have contributed to an astonishing 5,000 albums, amassing a sales history of half a billion albums.). As Toto I think they took what they had learned and produced their albums themselves. This is a style that is now called yacht rock, a polished, posh sound with great writers, producers and musicians. Groups like Doobie brothers, Steely Dan, Chicago, Survivor, Foreigner, Journey (some of the members sang and played on each others albums). Top notch back in the day and still good today.
Love your reactions! We sure had some GREAT music back then!
Cheeseburgers you want a Whopper and fries with that or a 🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕 did you want a Pepsi on the side what reference I don't know what you're talking about can you talk about food I need to go get something to eat
I still say you would like the song a million Miles away from the 1974 Irish tour from Rory Gallagher most of fames guitar players look up to him Rory
This is considered to be "The Pefect Song" by many including myself.
As I understand it, when Toto formed, all the members had worked separately as session musicians for years. In that role you have to always always adapt to whoever you work with at the moment, being able to give it your all and still not trying to take front position. So a bunch of excellent and humble professional musicians. I can't imagine a better setup for a fantastic band.
The story goes back even further. All the guys except Bobby and Hungate went to the same high school and played in the same band. Mike, who replaced Hungate, went to that school as well tho I don't know if he ever played in that band. Paich and the Porcoro boys' dads met while playing on the Glen Campbell show an introduced their boys to each other.
I saw Toto live in 2012. I think Hold the Line, Africa and Rosanna took them like a full hour alone for those 3 songs. They made them suuuuuper long with extended solo's and just some amazing jazzy stuff like the outro here in em too. They were fucking amazing, never noticed them play a single note wrong, missing a beat or anything. One of the better live performances I've seen, and I've seen 50+ bands live at this point.
There is one more lead singer. The gentleman playing the old upright piano is the lead singer to their song "Africa".
It's "West Side Story". Well.... Their interpretation of it lol.
Groovy groovy groovy thank you thank you thank you❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I'm a 26 year old man, but my childhood was this! One of the best band ever existed in my own opinion
Georgy Porgy please!
Toto have a signature sound. It's called awesome.
The woman in this video played Penny in the movie Dirty Dancing!
Another great early 80s band was Asia. Check out their hit "Heat of the Moment"
Their entire first album (self titled) is awesome, not a bad track on it!
The old-school Toto catalog is incredible, banger after banger! But check out their new(er) shit, Struck By Lightning!
this song was on the same album as Africa, Toto IV.
stranger in the town is a good song as well
Next songs have to be - I won't hold you back! and I'll be over you!
Do you know which band was on like half of the Thriller album
Rosenna is Cynthia Rhodes from Dirty Dancing 💃
super rad! BUT NOT "Here Come The Mummies"!!!
This is what made MTV so, so special in the 80's. The waiting for the next music video by your singers, groups etc. If only, MTV could be what it was back when it all started.
They would announce the next newest video the preview, the day and time...then we come indoors to watch it. It would be the talk the beginning of the school day as we roamed the hallways.
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Toto is like you just took the best musicians of every instrument and tossed them in a blender. Their music is NUTS. One of those few bands that, like you were saying with the space shuttle music, will be with me for the long haul.
Deep cut “White Sister”from ToTo’s HYDRA album .. Banger !!!!
When they do/did this song in concert it’s a Highlight of the concert it Cranks !!!! Crowd goes nuts ..
IM down,do Africa for sure
Another great one...very moving
He's already done Africa as he mentions this in the video.
@rogerdaly6326 ohh damn, I'm new to his stuff. So have been going back and listening to 3,4 yrs ago to catch up.
One of my favorites by them! 🥰
Toto was a group of session musicians with outrageous talent who were the backing band on Boz Scaggs album Silk degrees IMO one of the best of the 80s
these guys are UNBELIEVABLE!!! listen to Michael Jackson's Beat it...EVH AND Steve Luthaker threw down on that one...maybe other members of Toto; I can't remember
There are other members of Toto on the Thriller album. Lukather played all the guitar on Thriller except for the solo on Beat It , that was Eddie Van Halen (R. I. P.)
@@rogerdaly6326 awesome thanks! I couldn't remember!
Toto is amazing band like Chicago journey you should react to Toto I’ll be over you Featuring Michael McDonald
The video is a homage to West Side Story---A musical and film. I do think the "Maria" dancing is Roseanna Arquette.
It is Cynthia Rhodes who was in Dirty Dancing with Patrick Swayze and in this video he is the gang member with the gray sleeveless shirt.
“Rosanna” and “Africa” are both on the Album “Toto IV” released in 1982 (the bands best selling album). Toto IV received three Grammy Awards, “Album of the Year”, “Producer of the Year” and “Rosanna” won “Record of the Year”. Yes that girl can dance, her name is Cynthia Rhodes. She and Patrick Swayze are both in this music video and went on to star in “Dirty Dancing”, Patrick as Johnny Castle and Cynthia as Penny Johnson.
1982, that is. (Rosanna, Africa, Toto IV)
@@VictorPM1550 can’t type, yes the year was 1982, gotta fix that, LOL
Inspired in part by West Side Story?
Please react to Toto's song, Africa, soon please. If you liked this one, hold onto your hat.
He already has as he mentions in the video.
Happy Friday y'all. We just had a 4.8 earthquake here in pa/NJ area. Crazy life. Toto is great!
We are glad you love it as much as we do. That's some great sounds and vibrations humming through your body. Toto rocks.
Next you have to hear - Toto - Hold the Line
TOTO is insanely talented studio musicians making their own music.
One of my favorite songs of all time! This song never gets old
The horn section was such a big impact in some of my favorite bands in the 70s and 80s.
70’s & 80’s had the greatest amount of originality & artistry! Everyone had their own historic sound! SO UNLIKE TODAY
This “Rosanna” video inspired Michael Jackson’s video “Beat It”.
The reason why many of these bands you listen to have such variety in their sound, is because of the decades in which the music was made...
The 70's typical 'sound' was very different from the 80's, which saw the rise of synth, and the 90's that delved massively into grunge and alternative rock. Many of these bands existed through all three of these decades, and had to change their sound to fit in with the times.
While there is still a variety of sound from decade to decade... I think most of us will agree that the difference from the 2000's, to the 2010's, to the 2020's is not even close to the stark differences between the earlier decades. I think the internet has homogenized music to a certain extent.
Songs and albums used to chart for FAR longer than today. I remember Def Leppard's "Hysteria" album turned out constant chart songs, and the album was charting for close to a full year. Today's music hit number one in a week, then disappears from the chart 2 weeks later.
Nice reaction, Ms Arquette had us all drooling,
She even dated Peter Gabriel. 😊
BP the band Toto is comprised of some of L. A. 's top studio musicians so there diverse sound draws from different studio sessions they've played on.
Steve Lukather, the guitarist, was the guitarist form Michael Jackson’s Beat It album. Except for the beat it guitar solo, which was Eddie Van Halen
Ron Jeremy can sing!!!
This is great song love how they put all the music together horns piano keyboard guitar harmonizing singing love it .Toto was the studio band for many artists like Michael McDonald and Boz Skaggs. They also helped Michael Jackson with thriller album . Drummer Jeff Porcaro and guitarist Steve Lukather I grew up late 70s and 80s high school 90s best times I grew up for all music but I do love alot 60s and 70s music as well I listen to all music and have so much as I was a dj and always made mix tapes and cds as well for other people. I just loved doing that and bringing smiles to peoples faces with music. and there friends would ask them did you make that mix then they would say there friend me did it then id have to many people asking me to do it. Then I had to ask for some money for my time as it took so long.I remember the days when we had wait for it to pay on the radio and record songs to get if you didn't buy it lol
Love Toto.... I suggest "Georgy Porgy", "Lea", & "I'll be over you" my favorites. They did a lot of girl names songs too... such as Pamela, Rosanna, Melanie, Lorraine & Lea. Toto is just beyond amazing !! ❤
Wikipedia-According to popular myth, at the first recording sessions, in order to distinguish their own demo tapes from other bands' in the studio, Jeff Porcaro wrote the word "Toto" on them. In the early 1980s, band members told the press that the band was named after Toto the dog from The Wizard of Oz. After the completion of the first album, the band and record were still unnamed. David Hungate, after viewing the name on the demo tapes, explained to the group that the Latin words "in toto" translated to "all-encompassing". Because the band members played on so many records and so many musical genres, they adopted the name "Toto" as their own.
Bobby Kimball the high tenor singer on Rosanna (the lead singer on HOLD THE LINE) is living with FRONT TEMPORAL DEMENTIA. He's no longer performing as a soloist since 2017.
How many times , live in Poland is epic. Probably my favourite Toto tune