Hit Parade: A Deal with the TV God Part 2
Podcast |
Slate Culture
Publisher |
Slate Podcasts
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
Arts
Music
Society & Culture
TV & Film
Categories Via RSS |
Arts
Music
TV & Film
Publication Date |
Jul 01, 2022
Episode Duration |
00:41:57
For decades, British alt-pop goddess Kate Bush had never had a Top 10 hit in America. Now, in 2022, she finds herself in the Hot 100’s Top Five—and television got her there. Her classic “Running Up That Hill” is featured prominently in the latest season of Netflix’s hit ’80s horror fantasy show Stranger Things. This puts Bush in a long lineage of hits spawned or made bigger by TV, dating all the way back to Davy Crockett and Peter Gunn, through Hawaii Five-O and Happy Days, and peaking in the ’80s with Miami Vice and Family Ties. Join host Chris Molanphy as he walks through more than six decades of hits from the so-called boob tube and reveals why—thanks to our streaming age—Kate Bush’s hit might be the biggest TV tune of all. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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