Switched to Billboard Top Hits 1985 while getting ready for work. Power ballads, cheesy but fun dance songs, and big numbers from movies were roaring up the charts 40 years ago. The big one here also echoed that year's blockbuster film. "The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and the News would prove to be just as popular as the movie it came from, Back to the Future. The other big number here is from a more obscure film. St. Elmo's Fire isn't as well-remembered today, but it's title song, also known as "Man In Motion," is a dynamic dance song redolent of the mid-80's. Other good ones here include "We Built This City" by Starship, two touching ballads, "Broken Wings" by Mr. Mister and "Can't Fight This Feeling" by REO Speedwagon, and the theme from Miami Vice by Jon Hammer.
Though it was thankfully a bit cooler, it was also cloudy and murderously humid. I called Uber to be on the safe side. The driver going there and going home both came in 3 minutes. There was more traffic going home, but otherwise no real problems.
No problems at work, either. I pushed carts for most of the day. It remained cloudy, hot, and sticky up until it started to shower around noon. That didn't last more than a half-hour. After the rain ended, it remained killer humid, but the sun came out, and it got even hotter. Needless to say, we weren't busy, especially for a Sunday. In addition to the heat, we're between holidays and events, and it's the end of the month. I did gather outside trash and swept for the last two hours, but I was really in and out.
Went straight into dinner and tonight's Match Game marathon when I got home. Quirky headgear abounded on this show, mainly thanks to Charles Nelson Reilly. He often wore them to cover up or as a distraction from his infamous toupee. Among the hats he wore were blue and blue and red captain's caps (which usually prompted a round of "Captain Andy" jokes), a straw boater, a straw cowboy's hat (that Brett joked looked like a planter's hat), and a rather ugly orange, white, and yellow boater.
Charles, of course, was hardly the only person to sport a hat on the show. Richard wore a big, furry Russian-style hat in an episode. Someone gave it to Charles, but it was too tight for his wig. Richard spent that episode speaking in his idea of a Russian accent and making bad Russian jokes. Richard and Charles sported wide-brimmed straw hats on a nighttime episode, claiming they were members of "the Big Picture Hat Society." Gene and Richard eventually used the hats to hide their kisses to the contestant at the end of the episode! There was also the Easter episode where Fannie and Brett's ugly Easter bonnets migrated to the heads of Tom Bosley and Gene Rayburn, and the time Brett wore her own flowered straw hat in honor of Minnie Pearl being on the panel.
They got the most fun out of headgear on the syndicated episodes. One featured Richard Paul sporting a fireman's hat. He claimed he could pull the flaps down if the people on the upper tiers got too wild! There was also the time everyone wore hard hats in honor of a contestant who worked in construction. Gene once came out in a suede patched shirt and cowboy hat in honor of a cowboy hat Charles wore the day before. Charles called a cowboy hat worn by their director Marc Breslow ugly...prompting the cameras to focus on Charles' white cowboy hat rather than him. Melody Scott-Thomas wore a very weird baseball cap with a propeller on it later in syndication. Bill Anderson originally wanted to give Gene a baseball cap, but he gave it to Charles instead (despite the latter fussing that it would get caught on his toupee).
It's hats off for the Match Game panel in this hilarious explorations of headgear in all forms!
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