“Coming up, the evolution of a universal rock standard that was rescued from obscurity by a 17 year old, future icon, who happened to see a live performance of the song while watching TV in a hotel room in London. Joan Jett was touring with the Runaways when she saw the Arrows perform I Love Rock and Roll on TV. Joan made a pact to cover the song no matter what. She Knew it would be a #1 hit. It took 6 years after her band rejected it and it was released as a B-side not once but 2 times. When She finally covered it as Joan Jett and the blackhearts including Ricky Byrd on guitar it was a #1 smash. topping the billboard hot 100 for 6 weeks. The story of perseverance and destiny…is NEXT on Professor of Rock.”
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it’s time for another edition of our series The New Standards. This show takes an in-depth look into songs that transcend genre, decade, and fads – songs that are monumental touchstones in our culture and society. On previous episodes we have covered Cat’s in the Cradle by Harry Chapin, Dreams by Fleetwood Mac, and Hotel California by The Eagles But today we are gonna put another dime in the jukebox and celebrate one of the biggest #1 hit of the 80s I Love Rock and Roll by Joan Jett…
By the time Joan Jett assembled her back-up band, and re-recorded her massive breakout hit in 1981, she was already a music icon. At 15, Joan co-fronted The Runaways, one of the first all-female rock bands, and established a “Bad Reputation” for being an unabashed rebel determined to crush the status quo.
Joan was rejected by record labels 23 TIMES, You hear me right. 23 times… before taking the ‘Do It Yourself’ approach, and earned the titles Queen of Rock n’ Roll and Godmother of Punk. In 1976, Joanie, as she is affectionately called, was in the United Kingdom during a European leg of touring with The Runaways. Kicking it in her London hotel room to pass the time, she watched an episode of the TV series Arrows, which was a show formatted for teens back in the 70s featuring live music performances.
The series was named after the London-based band the Arrows, and on that particular episode, the Arrows performed their single “I Love Rock ’N Roll. Joan was instantly captivated.
She said the song “screamed hit” to her. Joan expressed interest in recording her own version to the Runaways manager Kim Fowley.
She bought a copy of the 45, and excitedly presented the track to her bandmates as something for the Runaways to record, but the other 4 musicians in the group, consisting of Sandy West, Cherie Currie, Lita Ford, and Jackie Fox spurned the song.
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Poll: What was the first song you played on a jukebox?
I had that album. Love JJ
The song that made me aware of Joan Jett and I’ve been a huge fan ever since!
Unpopular opinion. I despise cats in the cradle.
Jukebox story: When I was in high school in the late 1980’s my friends and I pulled a great jukebox prank in a 50’s themed diner. We put $3 into the .25 cent jukebox and played the most repetitive song 12 times in a row: George Harrison’s “I Got My Mind Set On You.” We were delighted by the visible annoyance of the other diners after the same song came on for the fourth time and kept repeating. https://youtu.be/_71w4UA2Oxo
My first album bought on cassette through my middle school fundraiser. Great album with so many great songs!
I used to play this song everytime I was near a Jukebox and Joan helped me at a young age Realize how Damn good a woman can look in Black Leather Pants 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love the Hatful of Hollow album in the background. My favorite album by The Smiths! Love Joan Jett 🙂
I saw Joan and the blackhearts at the Bridgehouse, a pub in the Eastend of London, just before this came out. Great stuff.
Saw Joan on tour in 2022. She can still rock!!
I worked at a Pizza Inn in 1980's when I was in H.S. when i took my break and we had few customer in the dinning room we we're allowed to play the Juke Box , my breaks where usually 15-20 minutes my 1st song was either Seven Bridges Road (the Eagles) or Lean on Me (club nouveau version) then it was Walk this Way by Aero Smith, then Deeper than a hollow by Randy Travis my favorite country song. then it was a couple random selections to finish out the 3 dollars I dropped in the juke box because I hated the Muzak machine's piped in music.
I like most of your videos but man do you stretch them out lately. You could have said what you needed to in a 10 minute video. Nobody watching this cares about the history of the jukebox lol. I cringed when you held up that bubs crap too.
I always loved this hit song
Great guitar tone on that song.
The first time I heard I love rock n roll was in the 7th grade. 2 girls in my class were sitting it from the top of their lungs in the hallway between classes.
everytime it comes on the radio it goes to eleven
Turned down 23 times from record labels, that's because record labels want to push what THEY think the listeners want. Mostly the execs wear their shorts to tight and have no clue what's good and what isn't.
Keeping hoping to see the explanation of Suzie Quartos song Can the Can.
Begged my mom and dad for a dime to play the jukebox at Penguin point in Huntington Indiana, he would’ve given it to me but he didn’t have a dime or something, he didn’t have the correct change, waitress said “I’ll give you a dime but don’t play the Beatles”… I played the Beatles. Rotten, disobedient kid…
Saw Joan Jett on the tour in support of this wonderful song (it’s a gift from God.) she opened up for the police At market Square* arena in Indianapolis. She was throwing out towels, sweaty towels, and people down front were clamoring for them.
*“There’s pigeons now on market Square, She standin her underwear… with the Indiana boys on an Indiana night“ last dance with Mary Jane, Tom Petty
Is this the same Arrows? https://youtu.be/TODlw9bl5a4