{"id":2537,"date":"2015-11-08T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2015-11-08T06:26:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T11:26:56","slug":"sunday-brunch-with-berlin-and-top-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=2537","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Brunch with Berlin And Top Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Top-Gun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2538\" src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Top-Gun.jpg\" alt=\"Top Gun\" width=\"282\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Top-Gun.jpg 282w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Top-Gun-150x85.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a>By Bob Berry<\/p>\n<p>November 8, 1986. Can it really be 29 years ago?<\/p>\n<p>Berlin&#8217;s mega-hit from the great <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0092099\/\">Top Gun<\/a><\/strong><\/em> soundtrack, &#8220;Take My Breath Away&#8221; went to Number One for the first of four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the song was helped by a\u00a0terrific\u00a0script, co-written by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/msu.edu\/\">Michigan State<\/a><\/strong> professor and good friend, the late <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Cash\">Jim Cash<\/a><\/strong> and his writing partner Jack Epps Jr.\u00a0And yeah, there was great casting.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000534\/?ref_=tt_ov_st\">Kelly McGillis<\/a><\/strong> buttoned-up smart blonde, until she kicked in the afterburners. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000129\/?ref_=tt_ov_st\">Tom Cruise<\/a><\/strong> showing off his now all-too-familiar (see picture at left) sullen intensity.<\/p>\n<p>But, man. When this song kicked in, and the sparks flew, you knew from note one that\u00a0&#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/detail.php?id=215\">Take My Breath Away<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; was a smash.<\/p>\n<p>And, all credit to the filmmakers. They didn&#8217;t use the song for the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zmfd9etbXGE\">volleyball scene<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy Sunday Brunch on Keener. Careful for the afterburners!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Berlin - Take My Breath Away (Official Video - Top Gun)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bx51eegLTY8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bob Berry November 8, 1986. Can it really be 29 years ago? Berlin&#8217;s mega-hit from the great Top Gun soundtrack, &#8220;Take My Breath Away&#8221; went to Number One for the first of four weeks. Sure, the song was helped by a\u00a0terrific\u00a0script, co-written by Michigan State professor and good friend, the late Jim Cash and his writing partner Jack Epps Jr.\u00a0And yeah, there was great casting.\u00a0Kelly McGillis buttoned-up smart blonde, until she kicked in the afterburners. Tom Cruise showing off his now all-too-familiar (see picture at left) sullen intensity. But, man. When this song kicked in, and the sparks flew,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,2],"tags":[689,685,687,452,688,258,686],"class_list":["post-2537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-berry","category-keener","tag-kelly-mcgillis","tag-music-group-berlin","tag-number-one-songs-of-the-80s","tag-sunday-brunch-music","tag-take-my-breath-away","tag-tom-cruise","tag-top-gun","wpcat-160-id","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}