I'm listening in 2020. I saw The Motels in concert at Coney Island last August 2019 and Martha still sounds great! I got a picture with her and she's a real sweetheart!
Shush little babies, do not cry over years gone by. Still a musical gleam in my eye for the motels who will bring us into a kinder moment, place & time.
Thank you Bryan...good sir. I hope I did my very best in the syncing up a much cleaner version of their prized album version of "ONLY THE LONELY" and overlaying it over the mono, hissy-sounding TV transmitted version; I "think" I hit the mark. (?) However, I have learned (just recently) that many people absolutely don't like "synchronization jobs", even if the performance is done for television or straight to video on a soundstage, in front of a "live" audience. The world of You Tube is a tricky business; the music & recording business...is a "tricky" business. You do your very best, try your darndest to treat all involved with kindness & full respect, but still...failure happens...even when you never see it, or saw it coming. Sorry to get off on a side issue, but I am fortunate, that you enjoyed this "remaster" job. Thank you Bryan; thank you. BolsaChicaRadio
Thank you Frederick. It was quite the audio/video synchronization job putting this "masterpiece" together some 8 years ago, with much older Apple/MAC software, but we did it! Glad to know that YOU enjoyed it. BCRadio
@@BolsaChicaRadio I've always liked this song! Can still remember when I first saw the video for it on MTV back in the early 80's..Personally speaking'..it's one of the best songs I've ever heard..& it's not even the style or genre of music that I usually listen to! That's how good I think it is!
I remember this song...I was 16, new motorcycle, part time job at McDonalds, a few girlfriends, and my Whole Life ahead of me. Life was Wonderful...not a care or concern in the world. I had it MADE! Thanks Mom and Dad!
TO: RC. Thank you for the good, positive story about your life. I too worked for McDonald's in 1979, I believe. The Motels came out with this song a good 2 or 3 years later; a great composition. I can't really say my life turned out much better than yours, but as you look back at your past, it's good to know that are some still, who were....and still are...happy & fulfilled with their past experiences & accomplishments. BolsaChicaRadio
The year this beautiful song came out I graduated from high school. Now in this year 2024 I still listen in absolute awe and wonder where 40 plus years have gone, but this song will remain dear to me until my dying day!! 🎶 🎸❤
Great comments, such as yours, made it all worthwhile rendering & uploading this masterpiece of a song, I believe now over 12 years ago. Thank you for your contribution to this tiny little page, in the big world of You Tube. BolsaChicaRadio
@BolsaChicaRadio Your welcome and thank you for your kind words. Music in that time I truly cannot put in many words because it had soul and meaning to it and music today I sadly cannot begin to understand!!
Q: What happened? A: We got old. Q: The music? A: It got overly homogenized, completely predictable and churned out like bars of glossed-over, synthetic margarine. BCRadio
@@3John16 Indeed Johnny, my satiric comment, was just that: "sad sarcasm". Hence you are very right, very mindful and very intuitive about that era. It may have been an an era of extra schlock, excess and flamboyancy...yet still...it was one of THEE most important eras of ALL Pop Music History. This is so very true. BCRadio
Indeed, as of 2024/2025; 42 years...almost 1/3 of that time, since it's been locked away in The SOLID GOLD vaults, possibly never to be seen again, due to the multitude of copyright leases...this little recreation I molded & re-shaped together, has been here. Thanks for tuning in. BolsaChicaRadio
I was a teen in the 80's and it just felt like 1982 was the beginning of the awesome music we had that decade --- this song was all over the radio and I remember it well
I am EXACTLY where you are in life right now 'Billy Barrett'; 58 years old this year and really wished things would have turned out much better for me, as I originally planned, but they did not. So, I upload music audio & music videos from this 'golden era' onto my channel...to either gain sympathy...or find friends like you!!! (ha!ha!) Thanks for the camaraderie. BCRadio
Not sure what year this csme out exactly-83,84 i was 7 or 8 then and loved this group because i started music early. Im 44 now and feel like both of yall and yall r probably saying, " lighten up kid your 44" u got your whole life ahead of you. But naw, its set.
EVEN IN THE YEAR 2020 WITH ALL THE BAD THINGS HAPPENING IN THE U.S., THIS IS STILL AN AWESOME SONG, AND WHAT CAN SAY ABOUT " MARTHA'S VOICE , SIMPLY INCREDIBLE!!! I WILL ALWAYS " LOVE THIS SONG"!!!🎵🎼🎙🎸🎷📻🎶💿😎😍😘🤗😂🤘✌👍💋💘❤💖
It was before Mtv and it was my favorite Saturday night show that came on free air broadcast ABC ! Same thing as American Bandstand, Soul Train , and the Midnight Special!
Just Beautiful! I hope one day in heaven we can get to hear all these great bands in the 80's play for us their great hits. Like old times. You know in heaven we will all be young again.
Thank you Paul, for your views and ESPECIALLY your insight! So many people who live in today's very "LIVE" & very "ON DEMAND" world, who were not privy to the television programming techniques & style of production of the not too far past, look at those "close yesteryears" of TV entertainment, through a prism that is out of context or rather a trajectory of "TODAY'S" presentation. That's unfortunate. Those who are much younger than you or I, can still barely look at "The Wizard Of Oz", "Gone With The Wind" & perhaps the effect of "Beatlemania", with a pseudo understanding, slight acceptance & give it at least historical value, honor & respect. But go back just a mere "short" 30 to 35 years ago, after the last 20 YEARS of either "American Idol", "The Voice", "America's Got Talent" & the HUGE LIMITLESS PLETHORA of "Reality TV", indeed, SOLID GOLD looks like thee most type of entertainment trickery, mockery & falsehood, ever produced. Yet, if we look at the OVERWHELMING SUCCESS of Dick Clark's "American Bandstand", Don Cornelius' "Soul Train", The Merv Griffin Show and the many other very notable productions that featured the "Then-Today's" most popular acts, singers & pop groups ALL singing & performing in "Lip-Sync" and/or "Playback" fashion and decide to not understand & value the importance of the evolution of television production & presentation, a grave disservice and unworthy rejection is given to the importance of our past, pop TV music culture. BCRadio
@@BolsaChicaRadio Yes. There is an almost immediate rejection by most of today's young people of anything (i.e., music, movies) more than ten years old. It's very sad.
This song takes me back to that summer when this song came out. Working at an Arco station on a Sunday afternoon. No traffic, hot as balls outside, no a/c in the office. A girl I was dating was on and off again and my heart was aching. I thought we were for sure going to break up. Then she shows up in her car, hands me a note, gives me a quick kiss, then drives away. I opened the note and it said she couldn't live without me. I was on top of the world. Bitter sweet memories as we called it quits a few years later. Good times back then. Good times..........
I assume one of you had too much gas. "If you say Pull My Finger, one more time, you can pack your shit and stay at a Motel, as far as i'm concerned." said somebody. It's just a theory.
I remember this song playing on the family radio, loud, me an anxious 8 yr old, waiting, for my dad to come pick me up to drop me to school, thinking I'll be late, getting scolded by my mother because I didn't want to eat the breakfast. Every time I hear this song ,takes me back to that time,I can feel every emotion, smell, everything, in all that ,liking this sound. Now as an adult I don't panic if I'll be late. I always go back to this song when I'm in pain.
I saw The Motels last night in Wilmington DE.....after the show I shoke hands with Martha Davis and thanked her for "giving generation x a timeless love song"
Sorry for your devastating loss. A beautiful song to honor his memory. I pray for your strength to get through losing him, and carry on strong even though it was 5 years ago. It may as well have been yesterday the way you feel :(
Hey Joe Tough deal your dealt Love the Motels I bought their greatest hits cd. Also, I am totally in to vinyl and found some Motel albums that had some great songs I never heard. Record s sound so much better than CDs. Peace ✌
Nancy Desch ,,,,, So True,,, one of my FAV songs,,,, The era of REAL MUSIC,,,The Eighteez,, Martha Davis and the Motels,,,u r Pissah,,, I refuse to listen to the shit out today,,,, It's like I told ya,,,,Only The Motels,,,,r Bomb:)
Indeed, back in 1982, there were ABSOLUTELY no digital softwares that can even come close to simulate what artificial intelligence/voice recognition digital platforms we have today...."To Correct All Things"...but spitting out of the other end, is nothing but synthetically produced, homogenized vocal robotics; I'd say. Digital recording was indeed around in 1982, but still, very much so, in it's development years. Herb Alpert's 1979 #1 song "RISE" was recorded direct to digital on the 3M Digital Machine, that weighed about the same as the Titanic! ABBA's 1981 "THE VISITORS" album was a hybrid of analog basic tracks, moved over to a digital recording multi-track unit. Finally, The Bee Gees "LIVING EYES" album, also from 1981, WAS THE VERY FIRST pop/rock/mainstream album to be printed onto a compact disc, however, for insider promotional purposes only. There was an analog module called the "EVENTIDE HARMONIZER" that had certain pitch bending capabilities that it could perform; mainly for 'effect' purposes. I believe the HARMONIZER was used by Steven Spielberg to create the voice of "lovable alien" in "E.T." So, thar ya go, a very short, very brief look at the digital world; "Today's" world...to some great misfortune for humankind. BolsaChicaRadio
You're SO right, Mr. "Dave From Maine", BolsaChicaRadio here; "ONLY THE LONELY" was ROCKIN' right along with "Back In Black", "We're Not Gonna Take It" & "Come On Feel The Noise"...!!! All four songs were ROCKIN' up the charts with Ghostbuster Blow Torches, that same very ROCK era! (ha!ha!) Just yankin' & rattlin' your cage a bit here Dave to make a funny, at your expense! Thanks good You Tube brother for tuning into my "Soft Pop/Love Ballad" Channel and getting a good ROCKIN' KICK outta it! Indeed, "Only The Lonely" was a great song, which accompanied a great & very well produced music-video that year, which did win the "MTV Video Of The Year" for 1982...which I am pretty darn sure, AC/DC, Quiet Riot & Twisted Sister...clearly, did not! Thanks buddy! BCRadio
Sometimes I see a bit of Elvis Presley's own musical DNA in her singing and performances, like at 2:37. I've always loved Martha's mature, sultry voice overlaid onto the rich sonic background music of her band. They never really were given the full credit they deserved. Like countless others, their music formed a key piece of the permanent soundtrack of my youth. And hearing their songs again over the years always gives me "happy melancholia" where I find myself re-evaluating certain relationships that could've developed into marriage but went in a different direction.
Many thanks, "Private Name". Out of all my, over a thousand, three hundred comments ("at current press time") yours was, without any doubt, the most clear, concise & best orchestrated narrative on this whole entire comment thread; and I REALLY mean that. Also, indeed, at the 2:37 mark, we hear "echoes" of Elvis Presley and perhaps even the great Ray Orbison, with their very unique "cry & howling" vocal presence, that many cherish, but few can emulate. BolsaChicaRadio
@@BolsaChicaRadio Thank you. I appreciate your reply and praise. I hadn't thought about the Roy Orbison echos there, but now that you mention it, yes it's definitely there too. I also want to commend your restoration work, and I picked up on the qualify of the sound on the video to be excellent as well. And I just listed to your Borderline take 1 restoration. Wow!. Those final few seconds of that video are quite an amazing Easter Egg of Madonna's pre-fame casual voice.
@@privatename3621 Much thanks again "Private Name"; many of the videos I have on my channel were done over 10 years ago. The two multi-increment concerts were done 20 & 30 years ago! Due to a (believe it or not) an auditory hearing injury that I incurred, right about 10 years ago while working "my day job", keeps me from wholly participating in current audio mixing today, but my archival mixes, video footage & full descriptions regarding such, has it's home right here on You Tube, I am guessing, pretty much forever. (I am hoping!) Your friend, BolsaChicaRadio
Even though to be a lip‐sync performance on Solid Gold show, listening to this song and watching the Motels brings back a sweet memories. There is no decade like 80s. Great band and great song Thanks for uploading it❗
You are quite welcome! Even though indeed, this was done in playback/lip-sync fashion, 99.9% of all performances on SOLID GOLD were done utilizing this form of pre-recorded production. But you have to admit, Martha Davis & the guys in the band, were some of the BEST syncers of the decade! BCRadio
TO: "bigwill40941" AS DO I! More so, I sure am glad that my VHS cartridge recorder was rolling in the record mode that day...hence...this re-mastered video. THANKS FOR WATCHING good brother! BolsaChicaRadio
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Who's with me? Here it is 2020 & beyond and this tune still falls fresh on my ears.
Mite early, here in USA Pacific Time, but just the same, much thanks for viewing my MOTELS upload.
Happy "soon" New Year.
BCRadio
Russ Boyes i’m here with you in 2020 and still loving it! !!!!
I'm listening in 2020. I saw The Motels in concert at Coney Island last August 2019 and Martha still sounds great! I got a picture with her and she's a real sweetheart!
April '21..England
2022 also!
Getting emotional. I graduated in 1982. This song is like a time capsule
Me,too
😅
It's so hard to believe that it was 38 years ago. Wow.
I know. We have all grown.
Almost feels like 39!
Shush little babies, do not cry over years gone by. Still a musical gleam in my eye for the motels who will bring us into a kinder moment, place & time.
I was 6 years before I was born
39 years now, and i was 12 en 1982. So, I'm not a kid anymore 😅
Listening on March 25th 2024. Loved this in 1982 as much as I do now.
As do I...AS DO I...!!!
BolsaChicaRadio
Same!
This song is 40 years old. And I never get tired of watching and listening to it.
Thank you Bryan...good sir. I hope I did my very best in the syncing up a much cleaner version of their prized album version of "ONLY THE LONELY" and overlaying it over the mono, hissy-sounding TV transmitted version; I "think" I hit the mark. (?) However, I have learned (just recently) that many people absolutely don't like "synchronization jobs", even if the performance is done for television or straight to video on a soundstage, in front of a "live" audience. The world of You Tube is a tricky business; the music & recording business...is a "tricky" business. You do your very best, try your darndest to treat all involved with kindness & full respect, but still...failure happens...even when you never see it, or saw it coming. Sorry to get off on a side issue, but I am fortunate, that you enjoyed this "remaster" job. Thank you Bryan; thank you.
BolsaChicaRadio
We all owe one to the 80s for producing so many fine female artists. This is one of the finest.
God, I miss the early 80s sooooo much !!!!
Now I am old, in bed, in pain 24/7
Don't wait, don't hesitate.
Enjoy life while you're young
This song is nothing short of a Masterpiece!
Thank you Frederick. It was quite the audio/video synchronization job putting this "masterpiece" together some 8 years ago, with much older Apple/MAC software, but we did it! Glad to know that YOU enjoyed it.
BCRadio
@@BolsaChicaRadio I've always liked this song! Can still remember when I first saw the video for it on MTV back in the early 80's..Personally speaking'..it's one of the best songs I've ever heard..& it's not even the style or genre of music that I usually listen to! That's how good I think it is!
It sounds just as amazing today as it did back then. Timeless song.
I totally agree with you.
One word sums up her voice, haunting.
Indeed my friend
No, more like totally feminine
Miss the 80’s
I was 19 when this came out! Loved it the love it now!! I’m 58 urs young! Love ya Martha! Made my 80’s!
Sexy saxophone and Martha kills this song !well done
Still listening in 2023 🎸🎷🎹🎶
I remember this song...I was 16, new motorcycle, part time job at McDonalds, a few girlfriends, and my Whole Life ahead of me. Life was Wonderful...not a care or concern in the world.
I had it MADE!
Thanks Mom and Dad!
TO: RC. Thank you for the good, positive story about your life. I too worked for McDonald's in 1979, I believe. The Motels came out with this song a good 2 or 3 years later; a great composition. I can't really say my life turned out much better than yours, but as you look back at your past, it's good to know that are some still, who were....and still are...happy & fulfilled with their past experiences & accomplishments.
BolsaChicaRadio
I'm 53 and the songs of the 80s were so pure and fun. . . sexy and innocent!
I'm 65. I still love songs from 70"s and 80"s
Dear God...What a beautiful woman with a perfect voice!
The year this beautiful song came out I graduated from high school. Now in this year 2024 I still listen in absolute awe and wonder where 40 plus years have gone, but this song will remain dear to me until my dying day!! 🎶 🎸❤
Great comments, such as yours, made it all worthwhile rendering & uploading this masterpiece of a song, I believe now over 12 years ago.
Thank you for your contribution to this tiny little page, in the big world of You Tube.
BolsaChicaRadio
@BolsaChicaRadio Your welcome and thank you for your kind words. Music in that time I truly cannot put in many words because it had soul and meaning to it and music today I sadly cannot begin to understand!!
Who didn't watch MTV for hours, days, weeks, -months,-when they were new and everybody in the world wanted to make a video for their favorite song?
Gorgeous woman with a gorgeous voice.. Chiming in, in Feb 2020...
Agreed...April 2021
I'm with ya May 7 2021
One of the most hauntingly lovely songs ever! 💖⚘🥰
The late great 80's. When music had melody, power, emotion..My god what happened
Q: What happened?
A: We got old.
Q: The music?
A: It got overly homogenized, completely predictable and churned out like bars of glossed-over, synthetic margarine.
BCRadio
@@3John16 Indeed Johnny, my satiric comment, was just that: "sad sarcasm". Hence you are very right, very mindful and very intuitive about that era. It may have been an an era of extra schlock, excess and flamboyancy...yet still...it was one of THEE most important eras of ALL Pop Music History.
This is so very true.
BCRadio
@@3John16 uhm, half of those genres are hold overs from the 70's.
Martha Davis can sing for me anytime.
What a brilliant voice
42 yrs ago . Wow
Indeed, as of 2024/2025; 42 years...almost 1/3 of that time, since it's been locked away in The SOLID GOLD vaults, possibly never to be seen again, due to the multitude of copyright leases...this little recreation I molded & re-shaped together, has been here. Thanks for tuning in.
BolsaChicaRadio
I was a teen in the 80's and it just felt like 1982 was the beginning of the awesome music we had that decade --- this song was all over the radio and I remember it well
Holy smoke, perfect looks, perfect voice, perfect song. We've regressed so badly, lol
Nah man, what you talking about? Aren't all the auto-tune songs so much better? Than an actual singer?....sighhhh.......
Blows anything away you hear now. The Golden eighties. Were just that gold
Wished I could go back to this time. Do things a lot different and wouldn't have wished my life away! Now just a 58 year old man with memories.
I am EXACTLY where you are in life right now 'Billy Barrett'; 58 years old this year and really wished things would have turned out much better for me, as I originally planned, but they did not. So, I upload music audio & music videos from this 'golden era' onto my channel...to either gain sympathy...or find friends like you!!! (ha!ha!)
Thanks for the camaraderie.
BCRadio
@@BolsaChicaRadio God bless you my friend.
Not sure what year this csme out exactly-83,84 i was 7 or 8 then and loved this group because i started music early. Im 44 now and feel like both of yall and yall r probably saying, " lighten up kid your 44" u got your whole life ahead of you. But naw, its set.
@@billybarrett2778 You made my day Billy. Thank you for the blessing. I truly needed that this week!
BCRadio
@ Yo Art; still married to that great ol' fashion, High School Sweetheart Dream Gal...???
BCRadio
EVEN IN THE YEAR 2020 WITH ALL THE BAD THINGS HAPPENING IN THE U.S., THIS IS STILL AN AWESOME SONG, AND WHAT CAN SAY ABOUT " MARTHA'S VOICE , SIMPLY INCREDIBLE!!! I WILL ALWAYS " LOVE THIS SONG"!!!🎵🎼🎙🎸🎷📻🎶💿😎😍😘🤗😂🤘✌👍💋💘❤💖
Indeed the 80's were super. These guys, Journey, Sting and several others were simply fantastic.
I like to here this song brings back memories Martha Davis sings this very good she has a very good voice
Still love this song in 2021. Martha Davis has a dark yet sultry voice.
Very true! Love this song!
I remember watching this at home. 16 years old and falling in love with Martha Davis😍
Same here. Her voice touched my soul.
Martha Davis what a fox. Solid Gold was an awesome music show back in the 80s nothing like that today
You're TOTALLY 100% correct, on BOTH the facts you point out! Thank you.
BCRadio
It was before Mtv and it was my favorite Saturday night show that came on free air broadcast ABC !
Same thing as American Bandstand,
Soul Train , and the Midnight Special!
Still a great song even in 2020
To My Fellow 80's Teens....The music of TODAY cannot compare to Our Music we were Blessed to listen to during those Years!!
Well said my friend...
@@Doobiepuu Agreed.
What a great sound. The sax, the keyboards and the base just blended perfectly. The vocals are one of a kind.
The guitar-to-sax break is a work of art in itself.
They were truly firing on All cylinders here. 💥 ..and on the fantastic "MISSION OF MERCY", too !! 😃 🥂 🏆
Wonderful 80's music. I've always loved this song.
I was 13 in 1982 and never will forget when 📺 was something worth watching. Great times of the 80s will be missed.
Always loved this song from the day it came out. A true classic for all time.
Just Beautiful! I hope one day in heaven we can get to hear all these great bands in the 80's play for us their great hits. Like old times. You know in heaven we will all be young again.
This song opens old wounds...
So sorry
There will never be a generation of music like the 80s!!!
Never. It defined what modern music is. I dont believe the 50, 60, or 70's did, not to take away from their contributing aspects. 1980's.!!!
I know Solid Gold looks cheesy looking back now, but back then it was so exciting to see someone you liked appear in the show. They had made it “big”.
Thank you Paul, for your views and ESPECIALLY your insight! So many people who live in today's very "LIVE" & very "ON DEMAND" world, who were not privy to the television programming techniques & style of production of the not too far past, look at those "close yesteryears" of TV entertainment, through a prism that is out of context or rather a trajectory of "TODAY'S" presentation. That's unfortunate. Those who are much younger than you or I, can still barely look at "The Wizard Of Oz", "Gone With The Wind" & perhaps the effect of "Beatlemania", with a pseudo understanding, slight acceptance & give it at least historical value, honor & respect. But go back just a mere "short" 30 to 35 years ago, after the last 20 YEARS of either "American Idol", "The Voice", "America's Got Talent" & the HUGE LIMITLESS PLETHORA of "Reality TV", indeed, SOLID GOLD looks like thee most type of entertainment trickery, mockery & falsehood, ever produced. Yet, if we look at the OVERWHELMING SUCCESS of Dick Clark's "American Bandstand", Don Cornelius' "Soul Train", The Merv Griffin Show and the many other very notable productions that featured the "Then-Today's" most popular acts, singers & pop groups ALL singing & performing in "Lip-Sync" and/or "Playback" fashion and decide to not understand & value the importance of the evolution of television production & presentation, a grave disservice and unworthy rejection is given to the importance of our past, pop TV music culture.
BCRadio
@@BolsaChicaRadio Yes. There is an almost immediate rejection by most of today's young people of anything (i.e., music, movies) more than ten years old. It's very sad.
I forgot how awesome this song was. She was a powerful, talented singer. I love it!
Such a beautiful song
Thanks so much for "tuning in", to my little SOLID GOLD editing & remastering job!
BolsaChicaRadio
miss the 80s terribly :)
I feel ya. Music was so good and then.....................
Fabian: I hope to make it to my 80's.
This was the 70s
80’s vibes ! One of my favorites from the 80’s, so glad to have been young and in my 20’s the whole 80’s decade, it was a blast! Good times!
This song takes me back to that summer when this song came out. Working at an Arco station on a Sunday afternoon. No traffic, hot as balls outside, no a/c in the office. A girl I was dating was on and off again and my heart was aching. I thought we were for sure going to break up. Then she shows up in her car, hands me a note, gives me a quick kiss, then drives away. I opened the note and it said she couldn't live without me. I was on top of the world. Bitter sweet memories as we called it quits a few years later. Good times back then. Good times..........
What an incredibly nostalgic, moving, and awesome song...one of my fav all-time songs of any era and band. Simply amazing!!!!!
I assume one of you had too much gas. "If you say Pull My Finger, one more time, you can pack your shit and stay at a Motel, as far as i'm concerned." said somebody. It's just a theory.
dude, that's Cannes Film material'
The Motels painted pictures with your memories....Its what they did...
I remember this song playing on the family radio, loud, me an anxious 8 yr old, waiting, for my dad to come pick me up to drop me to school, thinking I'll be late, getting scolded by my mother because I didn't want to eat the breakfast. Every time I hear this song ,takes me back to that time,I can feel every emotion, smell, everything, in all that ,liking this sound.
Now as an adult I don't panic if I'll be late. I always go back to this song when I'm in pain.
NOW! THAT ONE'S QUITE THE STORY...!!!
BCRadio
Your fallback song, sweet!!
What a Lady! She encapsulates the spirit of the 80's!
And then some...
What the hell happened to great music like this? The 80s were awesome...
Right on
The eighties had some pretty damn good music.
school music programs went the way of the Doo Doo
sldl04 First Wave channel 33 XM SiriusXM Satellite radio.
Left! The left wants you to hate. The left is ...evil.
When music was real
I was 12 in 1982, this bring me good memories.
Great song
It still tugs at my heart all these years later. 🤗💘
The best of times. Roller skating, hamburger joints, first loves.
And Drive-In Movie theaters, ; )
I grew up in 80’s till this day when I play this song still turn heads!!!!!
no SFX BS, no voice assist, etc. Just pure talent..
Martha's voice can melt a heart in a second.
I saw The Motels last night in Wilmington DE.....after the show I shoke hands with Martha Davis and thanked her for "giving generation x a timeless love song"
Donato Iacovino I'm glad to know she's still out there. Lucky you! 👍😉
2023 still excellent
More than just a song...it's like a short novel, or an art film. Whatever it is, it's a true masterpiece.
Listened to this when I was married. Brings tears to my eyes. Ex=husband died in 2014. I will think of him when I hear this song.
Sorry for your devastating loss. A beautiful song to honor his memory. I pray for your strength to get through losing him, and carry on strong even though it was 5 years ago. It may as well have been yesterday the way you feel :(
Hey Joe
Tough deal your dealt
Love the Motels I bought their
greatest hits cd. Also, I am totally
in to vinyl and found some Motel
albums that had some great songs
I never heard. Record s sound so
much better than CDs.
Peace ✌
So sorry to hear. God Bless!
Solid Gold was good tv in those days. Hardly ever missed it on a Saturday night. ABC TV.
Indeed, there was no other program like SOLID GOLD for the decade of the 1980s.
BCRadio
Even Ozzy Osbourne sang on Solid Gold how crazy was that
8 great songs in their career….. fantastic group at the right time in music history
Yes for sure. And those we're great times indeed that i miss very much.
This song always takes me back to the 80s absolute classic! ❤️
It's amazing how we lack real singing today. Such a superb performance. Days gone by, days long gone.
RICK: SO TRUE; so very true...
BolsaChicaRadio
All I know is that the 80 music makes me feel good.
Now. You missed now.
@@newwaver9284 zoinks New Waver were you zonked out when this all went down ?
Such a haunting song I’m 51 years old but I still remember my heart broken at my teenage years something you will never forget!,
Brilliant - compare it to what the young people have to listen to now. No comparison.
Nancy Desch ,,,,, So True,,, one of my FAV songs,,,, The era of REAL MUSIC,,,The Eighteez,, Martha Davis and the Motels,,,u r Pissah,,, I refuse to listen to the shit out today,,,, It's like I told ya,,,,Only The Motels,,,,r Bomb:)
One of the greatest songs of all time
OWEN: Thank you, good sir!
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Absolutely 💯
Sad shouldn't be beautiful, but this song is sad and beautiful.
She has beautiful eyes
Martha Davis…One of the great female rock leads of all time!👍🏻
Highly underrated!
GD I am glad I grew up in this era! Couldn't have been a better time period...
I guess we don't know what we have till it's gone.
That song, that voice, that band.Graduated high school in '78 and when "Only the Lonely" debuted it blew me away and still does.
GREGORY: You're kind words are truly "WORTH" a million, probably, especially, to MARTHA herself...
BolsaChicaRadio
Great song guitar riff and sax are amazing!!!!
OK now I feel old as the pyramids! Was 11 during this performance
That's OK, I was an ANCIENT MAN myself, of 20 years old!!!
BCRadio
I was 11 as well. This doesn't make me feel old. I feel grateful for having been alive when this music was new.
Man what a voice!!!
Sure wish I can hear music like this again brings back the good old days
No auto tune only talent. What a voice ❤.
Indeed, back in 1982, there were ABSOLUTELY no digital softwares that can even come close to simulate what artificial intelligence/voice recognition digital platforms we have today...."To Correct All Things"...but spitting out of the other end, is nothing but synthetically produced, homogenized vocal robotics; I'd say. Digital recording was indeed around in 1982, but still, very much so, in it's development years. Herb Alpert's 1979 #1 song "RISE" was recorded direct to digital on the 3M Digital Machine, that weighed about the same as the Titanic! ABBA's 1981 "THE VISITORS" album was a hybrid of analog basic tracks, moved over to a digital recording multi-track unit. Finally, The Bee Gees "LIVING EYES" album, also from 1981, WAS THE VERY FIRST pop/rock/mainstream album to be printed onto a compact disc, however, for insider promotional purposes only. There was an analog module called the "EVENTIDE HARMONIZER" that had certain pitch bending capabilities that it could perform; mainly for 'effect' purposes. I believe the HARMONIZER was used by Steven Spielberg to create the voice of "lovable alien" in "E.T."
So, thar ya go, a very short, very brief look at the digital world; "Today's" world...to some great misfortune for humankind.
BolsaChicaRadio
Will love that song forever. Pop rock masterpiece imo.
I had the biggest crush on Martha. Shes still sounds the same today as she did back then. 😊🎉❤
She can't sing a lick anymore. She is 73 years old.
The guitar-to-sax instrumental break is a masterpiece in itself.
I remember this song when it first came out. It rocked back then and it rocks even better now!
You're SO right, Mr. "Dave From Maine", BolsaChicaRadio here; "ONLY THE LONELY" was ROCKIN' right along with "Back In Black", "We're Not Gonna Take It" & "Come On Feel The Noise"...!!! All four songs were ROCKIN' up the charts with Ghostbuster Blow Torches, that same very ROCK era! (ha!ha!) Just yankin' & rattlin' your cage a bit here Dave to make a funny, at your expense!
Thanks good You Tube brother for tuning into my "Soft Pop/Love Ballad" Channel and getting a good ROCKIN' KICK outta it!
Indeed, "Only The Lonely" was a great song, which accompanied a great & very well produced music-video that year, which did win the "MTV Video Of The Year" for 1982...which I am pretty darn sure, AC/DC, Quiet Riot & Twisted Sister...clearly, did not!
Thanks buddy!
BCRadio
@@BolsaChicaRadio yup I like the stuff I grew up on. I call it old radio music. I subed ya.
Sometimes I see a bit of Elvis Presley's own musical DNA in her singing and performances, like at 2:37. I've always loved Martha's mature, sultry voice overlaid onto the rich sonic background music of her band. They never really were given the full credit they deserved. Like countless others, their music formed a key piece of the permanent soundtrack of my youth. And hearing their songs again over the years always gives me "happy melancholia" where I find myself re-evaluating certain relationships that could've developed into marriage but went in a different direction.
Many thanks, "Private Name". Out of all my, over a thousand, three hundred comments ("at current press time") yours was, without any doubt, the most clear, concise & best orchestrated narrative on this whole entire comment thread; and I REALLY mean that. Also, indeed, at the 2:37 mark, we hear "echoes" of Elvis Presley and perhaps even the great Ray Orbison, with their very unique "cry & howling" vocal presence, that many cherish, but few can emulate.
BolsaChicaRadio
@@BolsaChicaRadio Thank you. I appreciate your reply and praise. I hadn't thought about the Roy Orbison echos there, but now that you mention it, yes it's definitely there too. I also want to commend your restoration work, and I picked up on the qualify of the sound on the video to be excellent as well. And I just listed to your Borderline take 1 restoration. Wow!. Those final few seconds of that video are quite an amazing Easter Egg of Madonna's pre-fame casual voice.
@@privatename3621 Much thanks again "Private Name"; many of the videos I have on my channel were done over 10 years ago. The two multi-increment concerts were done 20 & 30 years ago! Due to a (believe it or not) an auditory hearing injury that I incurred, right about 10 years ago while working "my day job", keeps me from wholly participating in current audio mixing today, but my archival mixes, video footage & full descriptions regarding such, has it's home right here on You Tube, I am guessing, pretty much forever. (I am hoping!)
Your friend,
BolsaChicaRadio
80’s were truly the best just Beautiful voice she is now 68
I want my 80s back.
I was
Also 19 when this song came out still listening in 2021 I feel like I stayed back in this Era love ❤️ it great Music
It does exactly the same to me holding the one I should have never let go it heartbreaking
That feeling only the 80's brings priceless😊
Martha’s voice is magical! In my opinion she’s very underrated and who doesn’t love a saxophone in the song
She reminds me of Ann Wilson "HEART" What a thundering voice for a women! Just incredible!!!
Even though to be a lip‐sync performance on Solid Gold show, listening to this song and watching the Motels brings back a sweet memories. There is no decade like 80s.
Great band and great song
Thanks for uploading it❗
You are quite welcome! Even though indeed, this was done in playback/lip-sync fashion, 99.9% of all performances on SOLID GOLD were done utilizing this form of pre-recorded production. But you have to admit, Martha Davis & the guys in the band, were some of the BEST syncers of the decade!
BCRadio
This song deserves one billion of views!
What a song!!!
one of the most underrated and underplayed songs in the history of music.
I just learned that they were a local band and also had no idea how attractive she was.
Are you from San Francisco?
She's now dead from smoking
She's very much alive. Her eldest daughter is the deceased one. She died in 2016 from an Opioid addiction.
This song is on my play list. I listen to this once a day.
I Love A Song With A Lot Of Sax In It.
Sax is the BEST!!!!!!
Don't know what is sexier: Martha Davis's voice, or that sax.
Both
That voice, drum,bsas,synth, very good quality.
STILL a great song !
I remember watching this episode of SOLID GOLD.❤❤❤❤
TO: "bigwill40941" AS DO I! More so, I sure am glad that my VHS cartridge recorder was rolling in the record mode that day...hence...this re-mastered video. THANKS FOR WATCHING good brother!
BolsaChicaRadio
Saw her sing this in a dirty bar on Gratiot and was not disappointed.
Thank God for the 80's