The Plimsouls almost were/are. The Valley Girl movie put them on the mainstream map. Million Miles Away got quite a bit of play on the radio as I recall. I still hear it from time to time. Unfortunately 20/20 stayed pretty much underground.
Ron Flynt (the one singing, playing bass) actually has a studio in Austin Tx, jumping dog studio! I recorded 2 songs there, (Climb A Cactus & Gotta Be Tough) the whole time not realizing just how accomplished he and his band were! He till this day is one of the nicest people I've ever met, doesn't undermine my thoughts in the studio like other would to e female. An all out great human being! While adding effects and instruments to Gotta Be Tough, he smirked and said "this reminds me of the first time I tried acid" Gotta love him! :)
After The Knack hit it big, it was great to see power pop bands like this sprouting up. I loved these guys. I also loved The Plimsouls, The Beat, The Producers, The Romantics, The Pop...oh, God. The list can go on. It was a great time that we may never see again. Fortunately, we've still got the music.
My sister had this song on a tape in 1980 - the tape got lost, took me 38 years to find it - never knew the bands name, and the title of the song...all i could remember was something about Chery, Cherie, Cherey etc. Now I hear the song almost everyday - so much catching up to do with this BRILLIANT SONG!!!
Their first album is a true classic with beautiful melodic tunes with a certain rawness still. Guitar solos to die for. Great songs. Power pop at its best.
Killer tune..Had a promo 12" single of this for radio airplay back '79. Met the band in LA during the Internaional Pop tour 1996 ..they were great live. Also saw them at the NY Palladium in 1979 with the Sinceros, Bruce Woolley and The Beat (american Beat). Have the concert somewhere on cassette..great post! This goes up against the Plimsouls "Great Big World"
Saw them many times. Even before they got signed. Madame Wongs in China town, Most memorable was opening a show for them and the Plimsouls at the Mount Baldy Top of the Notch. You had to take the ski lift up. I watched a lot of guys climbing the towers and jumping on the chairs as they passed. A tough way to save a $5 cover charge. Those were the days!
ha yes great song! Remember this track from an album that came out here in Holland in '79 called "steppin'into the 80's" It had all this new talented upcoming bands on it like paul Collins beat with "RnR girl.
A BIG thank you for posting this. I still remember the Friday night I saw 20/20, (I believe it was 1981) at the Whiskey a Go Go in Los Angeles. I instantly became a huge fan. A band named Paul Warren and Explorer opened for 20/20 and it was an awsome night. 20/20 was very under rated and deserved much more success.
I also saw 20/20 (still my all time fav band) with Paul Warren at the Whiskey. I'm betting it was the same night. My buddy and I sat upstairs at an awesome table with a couple guys who were just as excited to see 20/20 as us. One of these guys went downstairs to piss and stumbled into 20/20's dressing room. He smoked a joint with the band as they all thought he was a buddy of someone in the band. He stole the set list and snuck away. We yelled the songs out before they played them. Good times.
We played cards in an old cabin when I was a kid. We were testing the water, drinking life and copping awkward feels. I laugh now, but I would give everything to feel that innocence one more time. Thanks
@WolfRun59 I remember most of those bands but never saw them. I did see the Go Gos in their infancy I believe at the Paladium. I was in to, (and still am) alot of the new wave and punk that was very big at that time...not to mention the power pop bands.Saw the Plimsouls many times and to this day feel honored I witnessed the genesis of Social Distortion. I grew up with the original bass player Brent Liles. He lived next door in our town home complex and the band practiced many times there.
@WolfRun59 You hit it right on the head my friend....LA's small clubs provided many great times. If we could just go back in time. I miss those days...
@88930P Two awesome bands. Explorer had some great tunes like Faded Glory, Kiss Me Krissy, & One of the Kids. 20/20 should have huge. Code Blue also. L.A. was so much fun back then.
If it's possible, could you get Ron to comment on this video to let me know where and when it was recorded. I'm guessing Gazzari's but not sure. Thanks, Dave
@WowIndescribable awesome! It's great to reflect back on those days and to know you are not alone! I hear 20/20 is playing again. Just a thought (and I'm not getting weird on you). What are the odds...after 30 years. 20/20 on stage and you and me in the audience...Paul Warren decides to check and play as well...ya, I know, dreaming....
Two brothers, I believe, from the mid-west who had a band "back home", then went their own ways, only to reconnect in LA in the late 1970's. This band was the result. This one and "Yellow Pills" got lots of airplay in the spring/summer of 1979. I went out and bought the album as soon as I became aware of it. Great song and a great band. Too bad this was their only real impact in the music industry, but I figure, even if you hit only once, you're still lucky. Right on, guys. -b
It was Ron Flynt and Steve Allen...they weren't brothers. They went to school together in OK and both went to LA together to make it as a band. They met with Mike Gallo...20/20 was formed
This is the clip I originally saw on "Hollywood Heartbeat" tv show (circa 1980).Went out the next day and bought their album.Didn't leave my turntable for about 6 months!!!!! Still listen to it until this day.Original drummer Mike Gallo isn't in the video,but his replacement Joel is,even tho he didn't play on the album that I am aware of. 2nd LP "Look Out!" Was a disappointment. (different producer,different production,less memorable songs). First album is still the BEST!
Perhaps it’s just me, but I don’t think the 2nd album is in any way a ‘disappointment’. It’s not as great as the first one, but most 2nd albums never are (by any band). I think if Lookout! had been produced by Earle Mankey like the first album was, it would be regarded as a classic.
Fun times and uplifting music. I think Paul from the Beat (Nerves) wrote this song? I never heard groups like 20/20, Shoes. Plimsouls, Beat, Romantics (early), Records, Dwight Twilley (pre Girls), Phil Seymour, Motels (early), Pop, Rollers (Duncan Faure) etc on the radio. I would just buy unheard records and so glad i did, So much good music out then with new radio produced groups being discovered and so much Canadian music that was never exposed to the masses
I’m not sure where you were living at the time, but I heard quite a few of those bands’ songs on the radio way back when. I for sure remember hearing Plimsouls, the Records, (early) Romantics, and Rollers (as in after they dropped the “Bay City”). I know I heard “I’m On Fire” by Dwight Twilley more than once. Also, even though some may not consider it ‘power pop’, I also remember hearing quite a bit of early Elvis Costello & The Attractions and Nick Lowe’s first two solo albums, both of which leaned pretty heavily on power pop.
@88930P Do you remember seing any other bands like The Flirts, Waitresses, Sue Sadd & the Next (T-Bone Burnett opened at Hop Sings), or Jon & the Nightriders? The Go Gos were just making it big and played the Roxy when their 1st LP had just been released (Scandal did too). Universal Amph was still outdoors. I think those days & the hair metal days were the best. Now people just scream distortion into the mic or drop F-Bombs every 3rd word. Maybe I'm just gettin' old. Doesn't feel like it though.
You're so right even if we are just getting old. I graduated HS in Long Beach 1985 and I was a sorry ass drummer who had a kit so I played all around with guys in that 82-1990 era from punk social D wannabees to Metallica clones, Iron Maiden clones, then the Pop bands like these guys and finally ended the 90's as GnR clone bands......all original bands, and everyone was "in a band" in the 80's. such good times. I wish we could have Reagan back too....
I was born and raised in L.B., and went to CSULB, as well. The brother of one of my professors oversaw a bunch of new wave/punk concerts at the campus pizza place on weekends. The Go-Gos, X, Plimsouls, Alley Cats, Blasters, The Know, The King Bees, Moon Martin, Suburban Lawns, etc. played there for small audiences. It was a modest venue, after all, and few if any of the bands had albums out yet. 20/20 never played there, but I did see them perform at UCLA... opening for The Ramones. 20/20's first LP (which this song is from) is the greatest Power Pop album ever, I feel. As for Reagan? No thanks. The overwhelming majority of musicians from that era probably agree with me (although Johnny Ramone was a Republican, apparently).
Everybody's feeling groovy Everybody's got tight pants on 'Cause everybody feels like they were Just made by the creator So come take a walk down my street Keep your head up by the phone lines You can see the world if you want to Give it a try, open your eyes and feel free Ahh, of my yellow pills Ahh, of my yellow pills
Hello, Do you have more stuff of this great band? I live in Argentina and I can´t get anything of this one, I just have an album which has this song, Cherie, and I would like to know where I could get or download more songs
The original drummer wrote the vast majority of the lyrics but come release of the first album: he had no song writing.Credits and was booted from the band.
They more than likely scared the shit out of most of the other bands in other genres in L.A. back then and therefore got back burnered. No other explanation fits.I was big fan of both bands you mentioned and other label bands too. Ran a low watt radio station back then also and they were favorites to listeners...how they both didn't go huge is just big wig politics.
Hearing this song on the car radio in 1979 filled me with pure joy. It still does 42 years later.
I worked at the Starwood in LA . Two of the greatest mysteries to me was how 20/20 and the plimsouls are not household names.
20/20 was at my place!
The Plimsouls almost were/are. The Valley Girl movie put them on the mainstream map. Million Miles Away got quite a bit of play on the radio as I recall. I still hear it from time to time.
Unfortunately 20/20 stayed pretty much underground.
Ron Flynt (the one singing, playing bass) actually has a studio in Austin Tx, jumping dog studio! I recorded 2 songs there, (Climb A Cactus & Gotta Be Tough) the whole time not realizing just how accomplished he and his band were! He till this day is one of the nicest people I've ever met, doesn't undermine my thoughts in the studio like other would to e female. An all out great human being! While adding effects and instruments to Gotta Be Tough, he smirked and said "this reminds me of the first time I tried acid" Gotta love him! :)
It would be nice to have a 20/20 reunion in 2020!
After The Knack hit it big, it was great to see power pop bands like this sprouting up. I loved these guys. I also loved The Plimsouls, The Beat, The Producers, The Romantics, The Pop...oh, God. The list can go on. It was a great time that we may never see again. Fortunately, we've still got the music.
Check out The Atlantics from Boston.
@@dwtime old style?
Power Pop is Based.
Zero Hour by th ePlimsouls is super good.
The Fools (Boston)
Shoes (Zion, Illinois),
The Records (UK)
Dwight Twilley & Phil Seymore (OKC)
My sister had this song on a tape in 1980 - the tape got lost, took me 38 years to find it - never knew the bands name, and the title of the song...all i could remember was something about Chery, Cherie, Cherey etc.
Now I hear the song almost everyday - so much catching up to do with this BRILLIANT SONG!!!
Bought this one as soon as it came out. This group was ahead of its time. As was this masterpiece of a song.
Their first album is a true classic with beautiful melodic tunes with a certain rawness still. Guitar solos to die for. Great songs. Power pop at its best.
Killer tune..Had a promo 12" single of this for radio airplay back '79. Met the band in LA during the Internaional Pop tour 1996 ..they were great live. Also saw them at the NY Palladium in 1979 with the Sinceros, Bruce Woolley and The Beat (american Beat). Have the concert somewhere on cassette..great post! This goes up against the Plimsouls "Great Big World"
They were the best band in the 80's my brother ran sound for them I loved them best times I still can remember
I bet he has great stories from the road, maybe?
Saw them many times. Even before they got signed. Madame Wongs in China town, Most memorable was opening a show for them and the Plimsouls at the Mount Baldy Top of the Notch. You had to take the ski lift up. I watched a lot of guys climbing the towers and jumping on the chairs as they passed. A tough way to save a $5 cover charge. Those were the days!
ha yes great song! Remember this track from an album that came out here in Holland in '79 called "steppin'into the 80's" It had all this new talented upcoming bands on it like paul Collins beat with "RnR girl.
I have that record! Also has The Only Ones- Another Girl, Another Planet. Such a great compilation.
Love 20/20 and love this song! For a short while it replaced Sherry by the Four Seasons as the song guys would sing to me when they learned my name.
Yep , i still have their first Lp at home , great songs . Thanks for posting
A BIG thank you for posting this. I still remember the Friday night I saw 20/20, (I believe it was 1981) at the Whiskey a Go Go in Los Angeles. I instantly became a huge fan. A band named Paul Warren and Explorer opened for 20/20 and it was an awsome night. 20/20 was very under rated and deserved much more success.
Who's listen in 2020? 🤘😁
Stil listening in 2024 and beyonf!
I also saw 20/20 (still my all time fav band) with Paul Warren at the Whiskey. I'm betting it was the same night. My buddy and I sat upstairs at an awesome table with a couple guys who were just as excited to see 20/20 as us. One of these guys went downstairs to piss and stumbled into 20/20's dressing room. He smoked a joint with the band as they all thought he was a buddy of someone in the band. He stole the set list and snuck away. We yelled the songs out before they played them. Good times.
thank you so much! i feared i'd never see a 20/20 video on youtube. totally makes my day. amazing band!
I met Cherie at one of their gigs in the early 80's in Hollywood. Nobody was there. Sad thing. I loved them.
I was at that Whiskey show too!
Doug from The Knack came out and played with Paul Warren.
great stuff, they reissued their 1st and 2nd albums on cd, what power pop classics
i love the way Steve Allen acts on stage
Great band that never got the fame they deserved.
I loved this band. Saw then several times in Los Angeles
We played cards in an old cabin when I was a kid. We were testing the water, drinking life and copping awkward feels. I laugh now, but I would give everything to feel that innocence one more time.
Thanks
@WolfRun59 I remember most of those bands but never saw them. I did see the Go Gos in their infancy I believe at the Paladium. I was in to, (and still am) alot of the new wave and punk that was very big at that time...not to mention the power pop bands.Saw the Plimsouls many times and to this day feel honored I witnessed the genesis of Social Distortion. I grew up with the original bass player Brent Liles. He lived next door in our town home complex and the band practiced many times there.
WOW! An indisputable gem.
Fantastic Band!!
one of the best songs of its time
They had a lot of great tunes.
Great Power Pop !!!
@WolfRun59 You hit it right on the head my friend....LA's small clubs provided many great times. If we could just go back in time. I miss those days...
@88930P Two awesome bands. Explorer had some great tunes like Faded Glory, Kiss Me Krissy, & One of the Kids. 20/20 should have huge. Code Blue also. L.A. was so much fun back then.
I was at that 20/20 Whiskey show too!
Doug Feiger of The Knack came up and did a song with him!
Been looking for 20/20 a long time, yeah Yellow Pills next, how about 999
Austin is lucky to have you, Mr Flynt! 20/20 in 2020!
I've been waiting for this! THANKS FOR POSTING! LOVE THIS SONG!
Just started an album project at Ron's studio in Austin. One of the nicest guys you'll ever meet and an incredible engineer/producer!
If it's possible, could you get Ron to comment on this video to let me know where and when it was recorded. I'm guessing Gazzari's but not sure. Thanks, Dave
Just don’t write any songs w him. You won’t get the credit for it.
Chris steals the show for me on this one (0:56- 1:02). Nice!
@WowIndescribable awesome! It's great to reflect back on those days and to know you are not alone! I hear 20/20 is playing again. Just a thought (and I'm not getting weird on you). What are the odds...after 30 years. 20/20 on stage and you and me in the audience...Paul Warren decides to check and play as well...ya, I know, dreaming....
Two brothers, I believe, from the mid-west who had a band "back home", then went their own ways, only to reconnect in LA in the late 1970's. This band was the result. This one and "Yellow Pills" got lots of airplay in the spring/summer of 1979. I went out and bought the album as soon as I became aware of it. Great song and a great band. Too bad this was their only real impact in the music industry, but I figure, even if you hit only once, you're still lucky. Right on, guys. -b
It was Ron Flynt and Steve Allen...they weren't brothers. They went to school together in OK and both went to LA together to make it as a band. They met with Mike Gallo...20/20 was formed
@@honey_bee65 Thanks for the clarification.
This is the clip I originally saw on "Hollywood Heartbeat" tv show (circa 1980).Went out the next day and bought their album.Didn't leave my turntable for about 6 months!!!!! Still listen to it until this day.Original drummer Mike Gallo isn't in the video,but his replacement Joel is,even tho he didn't play on the album that I am aware of. 2nd LP "Look Out!" Was a disappointment. (different producer,different production,less memorable songs). First album is still the BEST!
The reason the second album stunk is they kicked the drummer out of the band. Mike Gallo wrote a great deal of the lyrics for the first disc.
Perhaps it’s just me, but I don’t think the 2nd album is in any way a ‘disappointment’. It’s not as great as the first one, but most 2nd albums never are (by any band). I think if Lookout! had been produced by Earle Mankey like the first album was, it would be regarded as a classic.
Great tune !!!!
As good as it gets
Great!
What a perfect band- each member complimenting the other. Shoulda been huge. My personal faves- these guys and The Pop! were SoCal's best.
crapple009 They lost something when they dropped the drummer Mike Gallo.
Steve O he didn't even get songwriting credit. And he wrote the majority of the lyrics .
Plimsouls.
The Beat
Great song.
I like it! :)
Thank you for uploading this!
@Trash24713 I will never forget that night...the Whiskey was thumpin that night!
I still have the vinyl '45.
This is one of the best power pop songs of all time. Yellow Pills not far behind. Brilliant. Great time in music. Now, not so much.
Don’t forget “Tell Me Why (Can’t Understand)” and “Nuclear Boy”
@chops333333 I agree with everything you said. We probably were in the same clubs back then watching this band that should have made it big.
I think I saw them at a Seattle nightclub in the early '80s.
Fun times and uplifting music. I think Paul from the Beat (Nerves) wrote this song? I never heard groups like 20/20, Shoes. Plimsouls, Beat, Romantics (early), Records, Dwight Twilley (pre Girls), Phil Seymour, Motels (early), Pop, Rollers (Duncan Faure) etc on the radio. I would just buy unheard records and so glad i did, So much good music out then with new radio produced groups being discovered and so much Canadian music that was never exposed to the masses
I’m not sure where you were living at the time, but I heard quite a few of those bands’ songs on the radio way back when. I for sure remember hearing Plimsouls, the Records, (early) Romantics, and Rollers (as in after they dropped the “Bay City”). I know I heard “I’m On Fire” by Dwight Twilley more than once. Also, even though some may not consider it ‘power pop’, I also remember hearing quite a bit of early Elvis Costello & The Attractions and Nick Lowe’s first two solo albums, both of which leaned pretty heavily on power pop.
@88930P
Ha i was there too !!
super cool guys to me
Cherie, is a fu..n great song, MykG get intouch with me.
@88930P Do you remember seing any other bands like The Flirts, Waitresses, Sue Sadd & the Next (T-Bone Burnett opened at Hop Sings), or Jon & the Nightriders? The Go Gos were just making it big and played the Roxy when their 1st LP had just been released (Scandal did too). Universal Amph was still outdoors. I think those days & the hair metal days were the best. Now people just scream distortion into the mic or drop F-Bombs every 3rd word. Maybe I'm just gettin' old. Doesn't feel like it though.
You're so right even if we are just getting old. I graduated HS in Long Beach 1985 and I was a sorry ass drummer who had a kit so I played all around with guys in that 82-1990 era from punk social D wannabees to Metallica clones, Iron Maiden clones, then the Pop bands like these guys and finally ended the 90's as GnR clone bands......all original bands, and everyone was "in a band" in the 80's. such good times. I wish we could have Reagan back too....
I was born and raised in L.B., and went to CSULB, as well. The brother of one of my professors oversaw a bunch of new wave/punk concerts at the campus pizza place on weekends. The Go-Gos, X, Plimsouls, Alley Cats, Blasters, The Know, The King Bees, Moon Martin, Suburban Lawns, etc. played there for small audiences. It was a modest venue, after all, and few if any of the bands had albums out yet. 20/20 never played there, but I did see them perform at UCLA... opening for The Ramones. 20/20's first LP (which this song is from) is the greatest Power Pop album ever, I feel.
As for Reagan? No thanks. The overwhelming majority of musicians from that era probably agree with me (although Johnny Ramone was a Republican, apparently).
nice one, new to me
Awesome.Finally,my first 20/20 clip!!!
Anymore where that one came from?
Wish there were some vintage Pezband clips around as well.Thanks!!!!!
open up the door!!
They sound like The Boys (from England) who had 3 albums out by this time. They sound good just wondering if they were Boys fans?
20/20 actually came INTO LA from Oklahoma.
Just TWO of them did, and they didn't form 20/20 until they came to LA.... So 20/20 is indeed an LA band
Everybody's feeling groovy
Everybody's got tight pants on
'Cause everybody feels like they were
Just made by the creator
So come take a walk down my street
Keep your head up by the phone lines
You can see the world if you want to
Give it a try, open your eyes and feel free
Ahh, of my yellow pills
Ahh, of my yellow pills
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Hello, Do you have more stuff of this great band? I live in Argentina and I can´t get anything of this one, I just have an album which has this song, Cherie, and I would like to know where I could get or download more songs
Any Lyrics? :D someone?
Who are you -MorrisonAV? did you know anu of the 20's
Nope, didn't know them but loved the video.
:) Is there a date for this? It looks to be the "Look Out!" era band ...
+Peter Olafson I recorded it somewhere around Dec. 1980 or Jan. 1981, IIRC
This song was off of the first album
Song was on their first album but drummer is actually from 2nd...
The original drummer wrote the vast majority of the lyrics but come release of the first album: he had no song writing.Credits and was booted from the band.
Makes sense. Second album not as strong.
No one ...The Shoes
They more than likely scared the shit out of most of the other bands in other genres in L.A. back then and therefore got back burnered.
No other explanation fits.I was big fan of both bands you mentioned and other label bands too.
Ran a low watt radio station back then also and they were favorites to listeners...how they both didn't go huge is just big wig politics.
Great tune, but their best was Yellow Pills and Remember the Lightning.
Brickfield nite but i a better way
Elijah Wood on drums!