6 HITS In The 70s, Then Vanished...Actor Brought ‘em Back by Wearing their Merch | Professor Of Rock
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- Yacht Rock sensations Pablo Cruise had 5 major hits back in the day including two that went to the top 6 …
today’s song Whatcha Gonna Do from 1977 and Love Will Find A Way from 1978. Then they had a #13 hit in 1981 with Cool Love and then the hits stopped and the band seemed to disappear…Two things brought about their resurrection into pop culture. .. When the term Yacht Rock was invented they blew up again, as one of the foremost purveyors of the genre. Then in 2008 one of the world’s favorite comedic actors Will Ferrell wore their shirt in his movie Stepbrothers and put them back in our collective conscience. Up next the two principals from the band Cory Lerios and David Jenkins tell us the story of their biggest hit and their rise to the top of the AM radio dial in the 70s on professor of rock..
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Hey music junkies Professor of Rock always her to celebrate the greatest artists and greatest songs of all time If you are about music, you’ll want to subscribe to this channel so you don’t miss an episode. Also if you’d be so kind as to support us on Patreon, it helps us get more interviews.. Today We’re going back to a feature we’ve been missing for a while. You may recall…. It’s Yacht Rock Smoothies-the story behind the smoothest songs in the harbor with exclusive commentary by the band. The genre was made up 30 years after the music peaked on the charts by JD Ryznar, Hunter D. Star And Lane Farnhan with a Channel 101 series of 12 episodes that parodied the smooth soft rock of the late 70s and early 80s from Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald to Steely Dan and Hall and Oates. It’s actually one of my favorite TH-cam series of all time.. I’ll link to it below. The definition of Yacht Rock has gotten out of control. as Sirus XM sometimes plays songs and artists that are not even close to the genre. just because they were on the radio at the same time. What started out as a joke has become a world wide phenomenon. The inventors of the genre even have a scale that tells you if a song is Yacht or Nyacht I’ll link to all of this below.
Well bottom line is that the band Pablo Cruise is definitely Yacht Rock and their smash 1978 hit Love Will Find A Way is the subject of today’s episode of Yacht Rock smoothies including an exclusive interview with the founding principle members. So before we get into the interview let me give you a quick history of the band.. Pablo Cruise was formed in San Francisco, in 1973, with former members of the band Stoneground… It was David Jenkings on vocals and guitar, Cory Lerios on Keys and vocals, Bud Cockrell on bass and vocals and Steve Price on drums.. A lot of people me included thought that the band was named after one of the band members. I always thought that it was the name of the main singer until my dad told me different.
The band would end up explaining more than once that "Pablo represents an honest, real, down- to-earth individual; and Cruise depicts his fun-loving and easygoing attitude towards life.” - บันเทิง
Poll: What is your pick for the smoothest song of the rock era?
Maybe Peg by Steely Dan or Little Jeannie by Elton John?
"Deacon Blues" by Steely Dan.
"Avalon" by Roxy Music
You're The Biggest Part of Me by Ambrosia
@@TheSlowoldman ....DAMMIT, Bud! .....I was gonna say "Sailing" (Christopher Cross), but when I started typing, I thought of Ambrosia, and was thinking of a quip, and ya BEAT me! ...ha-HAA!! ...It's all yours, Mate.....
I grew up listening to this music and still love hearing the songs.
Thank you Professor of Rock for reintroducing me to bands that I haven’t followed in a long while. Saw this video when it first came out about a year ago which immediately got me listening to them again. Fast forward to April 20, 2024… I saw Pablo Cruise in concert in Fort Lauderdale. Excellent show!!! Bonus of the evening was that some of the band members were staying at the same hotel my husband and I were at. I met David Jenkins out in the front of the hotel while I was walking my dog after the show. Got a quick chance to let him know in person how much we enjoyed the show. Super nice guy!! I ❤ Pablo Cruise!! 😊
It ain't a 70s pool party unless Pablo Cruise is playing! Love these guys.
Loved loved loved that band! Thanks for sharing!
One of those great bands that just seems to get ignored for some reason. This is why what you do, Professor is so important! You won't let us forget!
I will NOT! Thanks William!
Great interview....as a 70s kid I appreciate what you do. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the throwback. Brings back a lot of memories
Thank you. I forget how much I love this song
I was living in Virginia for a short time in ‘77 and got to see them perform at King’s Dominion. I ran into a few guys I knew from the high school I attended. Had a great time and even got a Pablo Cruise baseball shirt (w/blue sleeves).
So glad you did this video!!!!! Once again, thanks for the memories.... 😊
Thanks for the memories.
Probably your best interview. I really like the sound of this band. Was not aware of any of their music but, thanks to you I really like it.
Thanks for reminding my of these treasure. I shave added them to my playlist.
Thank you!
Takes me back!
You're the BEST, Professor 💗💗💗💗😳
Thanks fir tbe good memories.
Thank you, another band I loved and forgot. Love live music. From rock, jazz and classic live music is always best.
Great pick! Love your channel.
Pablo Cruise got me through college at Ferris State in Michigan in 1979. Place In the Sun and Worlds away. Love them. I need to get a tee shirt for sure. thank you so much for having them stop in. peace
Thank you! I forgot all about them and I loved their sound!
Professor, you've done it again!
throughly enjoyed the interview with the two gents.!
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I just saw them this month, finally. I've been waiting since 1980 to see this band.
God, I love this band. Nothing like the old days. It just takes me back with tears.
Great band. Fantastic guitar playing and really good vocals.
I subscribed because I'm always interested to find out "the story behind the song". Looking forward to you finding more stories, Professor!
Great video, cool music in tropical breezes. Smoothest song: Biggest Part of Me, Ambrosia.
'78 was a great year for me. I was 22, had a good job, nice car, and hey, it was the '70s! So many good groups and songs paying on the radio. And then sitting in your living room with a great (now) vintage stereo system, placing an album on the turn table, twisting up a doob, sitting back and listening while reading the liner notes.
Yay! After you wore the t-shirt a few months back I knew it was only a matter of time. Thanx.
Great Bass 🔊 in Love Will Find A Way .. such a smooth song ! So 70s ..
Soooo 70s!
Such a great song, man. Really makes me feel good.
very interesting and those guys were right in saying thank God people like you exist, loved this song since way back, brings back some great memories of that time
Love these guys. This video makes me want to see you do one on Sanford Townsend Band and Smoke From a Distant Fire
Thank you Professor!! Great reach back & interview. Appreciate the archival info. I was 12 in 77.and This is one of those songs lovingly burned into My memory , thanks to my local AM radio station 14MAJ in State College PAand my wood grain am/fm clock radio from Sears. Pablo Cruise is one of the great blue eyed soul bands of my youth. Full circle alert, I went to college with Ty Taylor and am a huge Vintage Trouble fan. What a blast to hear that story. That was quite the Easter egg hearing the track. I agree VT should release the blues version of Love will find a way!! I emailed this link to him so he will get the message one way or another. Keep up the great work, I am a new subscriber and a fan for life after this.
They were my summertime "cruising with the car windows down" band.
They played at my university to support Worlds Away - great show.Great songs...
Here's one for you, Professor. These guys were the opening act for the 1st Rock and Roll Airborne Division, a USO Tour which I saw at a venue nobody else could get a ticket for because it was on an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean on a base called Diego Garcia. It was 1984.
What the band may not even remember that I will never forget is that the other acts included Kansas but the Kansas bass player fell ill in Guam and could not continue the tour, so the bass player from the band Louisiana's LeRoux, Leon Medica, became part of the Kansas act, and the lead singer of Pablo Cruise led a conglomeration of them, Kansas, and Patrick Simmons of the Doobie Brothers on the LeRoux smash New Orleans Ladies. I own every Louisiana's LeRoux album made and was blown away by the craftsmanship and tribute to Leon for his dedication to our troops.
By the way, the other band that finished that afternoon was none other than Cheap Trick. You have blown me away with inside information for so many years and I just get this one chance to lift your lid, doing it because you're so good at what you do. I am broadcasting in the Olympic Peninsula in Washington on public radio now, and I just ordered a shed to build a studio in so I'm not going to let the music die.
Cool story.
A great story; I am a big fan of all those bands and I have all the Louisiana's LeRoux albums, too, and all the Pablo Cruise albums.
The Song goes on sort of sounds like the Doobie Bros.
Late,but very cool story. One of my most treasured memories was seeing Loretta Lynn on her USO tour in 1983 in Sinai,Egypt. Favorite concert of all time for many reasons.
Cool interview …. I am amazed by a lot of musicians in their transformation from band to band …. I am a huge fan of Stoneground music as I enjoy the folksy “ hippie” music from the late sixties early seventies…I encourage those that enjoy Pablo Cruise music to listen to some Stoneground and see the difference in their sound …songs like Passion Flower and Brand New Start …Added Attraction ….just cool music !
Yes yes YES!
I loved those songs and I love this episode!
Love on, men… LIVE ON!
“Where do you get all this stuff? What do you do all day?” Love it. Those are the kinds of questions I get about my own chosen field of study-for-pleasure. It’s not a hardship to learn and catalog the history of what we love, is it? I’ve actually used some of your uploads to fill in a few pop culture gaps in my son’s homeschool history curriculum, Professor. ❤️
And speaking of doing what you love and loving what you do, I’m often struck by how very vibrant are the folks you interview, regardless of age. Human beings really do need that fire of passion to keep us going strong.
Love Pablo Cruise always!
Seeing them tonight in Decatur IL at Lincoln Theater
I always chuckled when I saw that t-shirt in Step Brothers its the random-ness of the character. It is brilliant.
Professor needs to do an interview with, Glenn Shorrock, of Little River Band,
Top 40 Hits-13.
Top 10-6.
Pablo Cruise will always be one of my favorite bands. Great vocals, and great guitar licks, ROCK-N-ROLL with a little Latin and Caribbean freely slathered all over it.
The lead guitar blended with the vocals so smoothly. I could go on forever. Thanks for covering some of my very favorite music. ;-)
It’s why their name is Pablo Cruise…so elegantly Latin and Caribbean!
Pablo Cruise.even managed to make that Peter Allen chestnut "I Go To Rio" pretty cool with their version!
"Where do you get this stuff?" 🤣 Hilarious! I think the same thing every time I watch the Professor.
Pablo Cruise was the first concert I ever attended. It was at Central Michigan University where my brother and sister-in-law we’re going to college and they got tickets for myself and my best friend to go see the show. It was an awesome experience
i just subscribed because you are a fan of yacht rock. i love your stuff but this one just made me make sure im subscribed lol
So, I made a run to Tucson a little while back, and did a bit of channel scanning as Phoenix AM faded to static. When the radio hit 830, I had a great older song to listen to. It turned out that the station is in Oro Valley, north of Tucson. I returned to Phoenix and the station was still making contact with my radio. Even though it shuts down after dark, it's great to hear during my daytime work, covering most of the Valley. The reason I'm telling this is because they play the songs that we don't get to hear from the other "oldies" channels here. I recently heard a "familiar" song and had to get about halfway through it before it finally sparked the memory fire. PABLO CRUISE! They performed in Celebrity Theater with Manfred Mann's Earth Band. I didn't go to a lot of concerts in the day, but they made me mighty glad I went to that one. Either band could have been the headliner, they were all so great. The friend who helped form my taste in music was a big MMEB fan, and it was his insistence that got us to go to the show. I have to say that it must have been right around '80, due to another friend in attendance. I met her in '78, so it had to be shortly after that.
Until this video, I have been wholly unaware of Yacht Rock. Of course I've heard plenty of soft rock, some of which I really like. I never thought of Pablo Cruise as soft rock. In fact, I never thought of them as part of a genre. So many songs are recognized by title alone and the artists are forgotten. PC sounds like PC. They've never needed more cowbell.
Under appreciated Genre. Nicely done
Liner notes….I’m feeling the nostalgia now.
Good pop music. Love Yacht rock!
I love CAN'T YOU HEAR THE MUSIC
What a great band ❤️.
I love this band.... just like the Bread their duration in music were so short...
Two days in a row talking or mentioning hidden gems I forgot about that are way better than anything on the radio today. Definitely down loading.
I loved them!
Great group and original from San Francisco ❤❤❤❤
Great song - always reminded me of early Steely Dan, especially the guitar.
I saw Pablo Cruise in Santa Cruz California August 1978. They opened for Kenny Loggins. Great show!! 🎸🎸🎸
The professor of rock is a marvel, his knowledge of the music amazes me ! Hat's off to you
for taking the time to appreciate, the bands we loved, and even the bands we didn't know !!!
I love the music too ! You are the true professor of rock !!!!
Great video Adam! Although I always thought that Pablo Cruise was made up of former It's a Beautiful Day players? Hmmmm
I've always loved Pablo Cruise! I'm 70 now, and so out of the vernacular language that I didn't know what yacht rock was. I've heard of yacht girls because of TH-cam showing Meghan Markle as such. I had A Place in the Sun on cassette and I wore that tape out, replaced it with a CD. I still play it. I still play Toto, Boston, Fleetwood Mac. Don't forget about The Little River Band. And yes, It's All Right!
I was all about Pablo Cruise and Firefall back in the day. Good to see they're still kickin it!
@Jon-Firefall. That's another band the professor should cover.
As for Pablo Cruise, i was a kid who grew up with them. I do hear this music on our local classic rock station quite often. I've enjoyed this interview a lot. It's good they're still out there and it would be good to see some of the covers released. They sound good as well.
Very cool. I've always loved their music. And my group, in the 90s, was working with producers close to the band and we got to perform with Bud a couple times. Nice memories.
Growing up in the SF Bay Area I was always a fan of Pablo Cruise (got to grow up with Journey and The Doobie Brothers as well). Saw them (Pablo Cruise) at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland in December, 1979... an exceptional performance!
Yacht Rock is so unique. Love how they explain the band as just going about life and exploring it. Exactly how I like it
For sure.
It's interesting to NAME a genre decades after it was most popular!
I love Sirius during the summer when they have the Yacht Rock Deep cuts channel. It's great!
I can’t tell you how much I hate the term Yacht Rock. I guess the alternative is easy listening though. I can’t for the life of me see how Steely Dan is considered Yacht Rock. Christopher Cross, eh maybe. Pablo Cruise, ok Little River Band, eh ok. Not the Dan though.
@@danafortier4085If you consider it a pejorative. But if you look at Rizner's definition, which is rather precise, it has to do with a particular sound, based around LA and its elite studio musicians, or those who sound just like that. Which, is pure Steely Dan.
When I was a Marine stationed in Japan, Dave came through with the Steve Morse era Kansas, Tom Johnson from The Doobies, and a couple of other bands on a USO tour called the 1st Airborn Rock and Roll Division. I was backstage as part of the crew and got to meet them all. Dave was as smooth as his tunes. Even though I was nothing to him except the sound guy's lackey, he treated me with respect and never acted like I had no business talking to him.
He is truly good people.
OMG 🤩🤩🤩Pablo Cruise???!!! I found my place in the Sun! 😍 love it!
I love that coffee table made of cassette tape boxes!!!!❤
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Every time that bass line kicks in, it’s summer ‘78 all over again… Charlie’s Angels, KISS, Grease and Star Wars rereleased in theatres!
What a blockbuster year!
It's good to know your efforts are appreciated by so many people...including the artists themselves..!
Keep up the great work..!
Pablo Cruise are amazing, and "Love Will Find A Way" is my favie!
The summer that Star Wars came out, I was ten, and Pablo Cruise was all over the radio with 'Whatcha Gonna Do', as well as Heart with 'Barracuda'. I still think of Star Wars when I hear them both.
I remember my 17 year old brother driving us to see it at North Park Mall in Dallas in the white Impala he had gotten as his first car (it had been our grandfather's car for ages), and hearing that music on the radio. The hot wind blasting into the little triangular side windows, the musty, stale smell of the 1960's upholstery, the chrome pushbuttons on the old radio, and the mere two-lane width of Central Expressway headed south to the mall.
Star Wars of course blew my little mind, and that summer was cemented in my memory forever, because a year later, my brother was killed in a car accident, at the age of 18, overseas where we lived in Taiwan. Pablo Cruise and Heart and Star Wars and that white '64 impala in the summer of 1977.
I got that same car when I started driving, too.
LOVE Pablo Cruise and still wear that shirt.
I was way ahead of the curve. Had a Pablo Cruise T Shirt in 1978. Good times.
Dang, I loved listening to the radio in th 70s.
Pablo Cruise was number one in the roller rinks during the disco and post-disco era in 1978-80. I remember skate dancing to their music along with all the usual BeeGees and Journey stuff...
I always loved how, if you asked the band "which one of you is Pablo Cruise", they'd answer "the one in the middle" (hint: there was only 4 of them). Just a smooth, unappreciated band... but so was Toto at the time.
Awe this hit in my heart !! my very first concert outdoor venue, terrible seats, BUT the music, It was a beach boys concert with openings from Steve Miller Band and Pablo CRUISE! great memories I was 16 and with my first ever bf ;) and love will find away was MY song as he moved away with his family and I was crushed, anyways,I grew up loving Steve miller and listened to pablo for as long as they were played on the Radio, dont think I bought the album :) Cheers!! and Thank you !!
Love the beginning of "I go To Rio" off World's Away!
I still listen to AM daily
I have been a big fan of Pablo Cruise since forever! My favorite song, however, is Ocean Breeze, from the first album...
I also used to think they were from Hawaii, just on the musical style and the album covers...
I have that album and it's a favorite of mine as well.
I have that album and it's a favorite of mine as well.
Very interesting. I remember Pablo Cruise's two top 10 hits Whatcha Gonna Do and Love Will Find A Way. I liked both songs and thought they had a really good sound. I always wondered what happened to them. Good interview. I'm glad you finally returned to doing an episode on one of my favorite musical genres, yacht rock. It's been awhile.
Sometimes I turn to yacht rock to soothe my soul and free me of anxiety.
They have always been in my library.
They played my highschool in Bay area and the local fair. Great band. I didn't realize they were as popular as they were until this video. Being in service kept me out of loop with popular music
My favorite song by Pablo Cruise, is "Runnin", from their album 'Worlds Away'....Just amazing!
Pablo Cruise was a great band. "A place in the Sun" was my favorite PC tune.
Wow, what great guys.
The definitive quote from this interview is "This is gonna be Good!"🤣🤣💯
Still play Pablo on the jukebox at the bar I go to.
Yacht rock is my favorite. Music genre. I love this song..you should do one of my favorites..Robbie Dupre...steal away
You have a great voice
I love ALL music … but for some reason that I can’t explain, yacht rock is my favorite
My favorite Pablo Cruise song's "Find Your Place in the Sun". I was just out of school, trying to figure out what to go with my life, and this song spoke to me and motivated me to find my place in the sun.
Love Find Your Place in the Sun. Such an uplifting motivator, for sure.
Good call!
@@ProfessorofRock I love what you’re doing on your channel. Your dad would be proud of you! I started in radio 1975… Became a program Director for CBS in Houston in the mid 80s….and went on to program a classic rock, a couple of AAA stations and three smooth jazz stations in various cities in the 90’s and 2000’s in Tampa, Orlando, Atlanta, and New York. Had a great career got to meet all sorts of interesting folks including Mick Jagger, Joe Sample, Al Jarreau, Sade, Pink Floyd and many, many others. Also got a chance to do live shows from beautiful places all over the world. I had a great career. I love music just like you. Keep on doing what you’re doing you’re doing a great service.
I got this song as recommendation on Spotify, and god damn it's one of the best songs I've ever heard. Instantly went into my favourites list.
Oh my gosh, I love Pablo Cruise!! As a matter of fact, I watch another TH-camr, Jamel Jamel and he does reactions to songs he hasn’t heard before. He did a series 70’s Throwback. Some sixties too. I like it so much bc that’s what influenced my music taste, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s music. (I was born in ‘63) So, I have three sons, 25,23 and 22. I send them songs all the time that I listened to growing up and a teenager and young adult. I just sent Pablo Cruise two weeks ago!! It’s a great way to relate to my kids and keep all those great songs alive. Plus its interesting seeing which ones they like best and so forth. I remember riding around with my cousin listening to Pablo as we were going to a place called Star Castle to go dance!! Good times. Enjoyed this one Professor!
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Jamel is a class act! Love to watch him experience something for the first time. Sorry he seems to be having such a hard time lately. Truly a good human.
Thanks so much Prof! Bud Cockrell’s dad worked for my dad in Greenville Mississippi in the early 80’s and I became a huge Pablo Cruise fan! Buds baseline in what you gonna do is mesmerizing! Thanks for this episode so much. Very nostalgic
I’ve been a fan of Pablo Cruise since I was a kid. Great interview.
Love "Pablo Cruise"!
Pablo was my go to band! I got the guy at my record store to order me a Pablo Cruise t-shirt and I was like the only kid in my neighborhood to like them and have all their albums. Then they came and did a show in a club near me and I was too young to get in. I was livid. All my friends were picking on me saying what kind of Pablo fan am I if I missed their concert. Then they fell off the Earth on me. Years later in college I getting drunk with some randos and some kid put on World's Away and played "I Go To Rio" and I did the screwy intro. Well that was it ..I was a hit! Good memories of that really wonderful band that was a big part of my life for probably 6 or 7 years.
One of my favorite interviews to date. They seem to really appreciate how much information you had to share with them and their story is fantastic. As always, an interview with enthusiasm for the music, and mutual respect. Best channel on youtube.
Regarding unheralded Yacht Rock acts, I think Paul Davis had some great 70s classic songs. Worthy of recognition on your channel!