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  • Ocean City, New Jersey, totally digging this song just before my senior year in high school at Cherry Hill High School East..... Working at Prep's Pizza on the boardwalk. Unforgettable summer................

  • For being one of their less purchased albums, this one was always the favorite of mine. Even with the more popular first and second releases, this one sticks out as their best effort by far !!! Summer Sun is just so smart,complete, and worthy of their anthem song ! Whoever important that wasn't listening when this was released needs to step up and say they're sorry.

  • Canada had some great bands! Back in the day I thought it was only Bryan Adams.....but man I was so wrong.....

  • @dannywizz

    Actually, Shooting Star was from Kansas City, Missouri, not Canada. And before you ask, yes, I'm sure.

    No offense -- just lettin' 'ya know.

  • @Ken5244 Thanks, I was afraid I was wrong on that one. I just looked at another comment below that said they were Canadian. Anyways I still think Canada had some hard ass rock bands back then.

    Regards to Shooting Star, they are great even though they are American.

  • @dannywizz

    No problem. I saw that other comment too. He's mistaken.

  • grandes

  • Very underrated band. Thanks for posting.

  • I am reading through these comments and laughing. My uncle was in this band and I live in OCNJ now. I was 5 years old when this song came out and living in the Philadelphia area. They were a great band and I am still in touch with the ORIGINAL members. Thanks for the great reading everyone.

  • @Lrnaue I have to ask... who's your uncle?

  • Summer 1985, my girlfriend and I finally got a day off together and were driving my Dodge Dart convertible to the beach without a care in the world, and then this song came on the radio. It made one of those perfect memories that stays with you the rest of your life. God bless the members of Shooting Star.

  • this is an aor anthem!!!!

  • If anyone hears anything related to future Shooting Star tours please advise!!!

  • @BRAINWIGMAN Check out shootingstarmaniacs . com

  • Well hello Mr. Temple - good to hear from you after 25 years!!! Yeah, I still crank up Shooting Star songs - love them.

  • So many great memories with this band it's unbelievable...Over 30 years and I can listen to them everyday...Never get's old..Used to see them warm up KANSAS when both were trying to make the big time..Just saw KANSAS out here in Vegas a while back....but SHOOTING STAR will always live in my heart as #1..Always remember life is way too short and "Train Rolls On" but not on my time...

  • I am Jeffery Don Temple from Kansas and have seen this band too many times too mention and still love listening to them today...Patty Carothers from Houston good to hear you still like them...This is by far the most under rated band in the history of music....Started listening to SHOOTING STAR in the late '70's and still listen to them today...So, in my 53 years on this planet, it's good to know there is still some of us that appreciate good music...Emily 3 likes to dance to them as well..

  • It was 1985 - I met a guy by the name of Jeffrey Don Temple who came from Kansas! He lived in Victoria, TX when I met him and he introduced me to "Shooting Star"! I have collected EVERY CD they ever produced! They are ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!! That would be Saline, Kansas!!!!! ;-) My favorite is "Train Rolls On" !!!

  • I have EVERY album they ever made!!!!!! Love those guys. Saw them live in Houston after being warmed up by HEART!!! Those were the days!

  • Still no luck ! Please help .. Post the song "Don"t walk away" off the same album as this song . The album was Silent Scream....... Still can't find it anywhere ! Anybody have any idea's ?

  • @MrkintheDrk - You got it. Look at my other videos.

  • @MrkintheDrk Try grooveshark . com. I just uploaded all of Shooting Star albums there.

  • @craigg75 Thanks for the web sight. Awesome library of songs.. 

  • @MrkintheDrk Did You Try Ebay?

  • @MrkintheDrk I believe it is available on CD...Try Amazon..You are right..Great album!! I saw these guys open up for Cheap Trick in 1982...EPIC SHOW>>>BLEW CT OFF THE STAGE!!

  • I loved this record. Used to record it onto cassette for the car rides. Great band, great memories with Shooting Star!. Wish I could find another copy of it, but this time on cd.

  • @fuzzmaster5. The band is still out there touring. You can get that album (Silent Scream) on their website, shootingstarmaniacs.co_.

  • @fuzzmaster5

    Ditto!

  • Great, great band. I had the pleasure of seeing them on this tour in August of 1985 in Arlington, Texas opening for Heart. I can say that their show blew me away more than Heart since i had already seen them once before anyway.

  • @SuperiorPolitics I wanted to go to that show, but I had family visiting me in Dallas! Saw SS several times in Kansas during high school/college. This was my favorite album by them, then they were gone. Always such good, positive music.

  • @roojunk

    Yeah, it was a show at 6 Flags. If i wasn't a big fan before that show, i was after wards. Ooops. Already was a fan.

    I remember hearing them on the radio all the time back when i was in high school while living in Minnesota.

  • @SuperiorPolitics I saw the same show but at Astroworld in Houston, Shooting Star opened up for Heart!! Both Bands put on a heck of a show as hot and humid as it was!!

  • One of the best AOR albums ever. Much underestimated band with an unique but highly melodic sound

  • Someone please post " Don't walk away " from the same album..  Please

  • love SHOOTING STAR!!

  • Summer 1985. Best summer of my life.... Junior year before senior year in high school.... first time I got drunk and stoned.... Ocean City, NJ.... met my first girlfriend in the fall of 1985...... The best year of my life, never to be repeated.....

  • they never went out and acted like idiots,apparantly to their detriment.they were and still are an awesome band with many great tunes

  • I agree that it was underrated and underexposed! Saw them on this tour, right up in the front row:?) For years, this song kicked off my "summer season" by being whipped out of it's sleeve and placed lovingly on the turntable:?) Memories...

  • Summer of '85,,Man wish I could go back.

    Miss those days. Juinor in HS......Hot summer days at the beach....warm summer nights partying at Turtle Beach..Venice,Fl 

    95ynf Tampa Bay's home of Rock 'n Roll !

  • It wasn't bad as a 25-year-old guy in San Diego, either. But it seemed like I was getting old then. Ha!

  • Great American Band and was extremely underrated.

  • I agree 100%

  • @easyscore Great Canadian band.

    

  • Summer of 1985, cruising San Antonio's Westside (the barrio) and the downtown area with my buddies in my 1975 VW Rabbit whose transmission was about to go out!! My rabbit would smoke up a storm if I made a sudden turn or stop!! One time I made a sudden stop at a red light and so much smoke came out of the transmission, that the cars behind me had to slow down to be able to see in front of them!! It seemed like a cloud had come down from the sky!! I was a poor but proud college student!!

  • @proudhawkeye Cool story ! I remember I got this album right before the space shuttle crash Jan 86.. Just moved back to So, Cal from San Fran. Grew up in the bay area . San Mateo county. on the peninsula . Dang I miss those day's.....

  • @markinddark, thanks Mark, believe it or not, back in 1985 you and I were multi-millionaires because we had youth and time on our side!! Imagine if we could be tranported back 25 years and this time around we would let the trivial stuff go and really enjoy life to its fullest!! Had we only known that "life is so brief and time is a thief" Keep on Rocking in the Free World!!

  • @proudhawkeye Yeah you are right ! Thank's partner . Now I got to listen to Neil Young ! "KEEP ON ROCKING IN THE FREE WORLD" 

  • This song was a bit obscure here in the UK but I got a copy on 12" and played it to death! Loved Summertime girls by Y&T and Boys of Summer by Don Henley too. Great mid 80's melodic rock for the sunny season.

  • ".... You can see all that can happen, with lipstick and the crimes of passion.... Blind kisses of fate that can fall along the way....."

  • This was the soul of my senior year in high school..... Summer, 1985 in Ocean City NJ.....fucking unbelievable times..... Thank you, Shooting Star, for those memories.........

  • This tune evokes so many strong memories for a lot of people and it is so tied to Summer 1985 - my senior year as well. Great songs have that effect on us - like a time machine!

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  • Yes OC in 85 and this song...looks like I wasn't the only one! I drove around and listened to this and Triumph there. Rock on!

  • what a great blast from the past ! made me wish i woz in the u s of a instead of england ! ! !

  • I agree with tomcat, good music back then and this song is one of them. I've always loved this song. It hit the air summer 1985. I am going to see Shooting Star at a local music jam this weekend and was researching who's in the band now. Unfortunately, it's a different lead singer now, Ronnie Platt, which is a bummer because Shooting Star is not the same without the original lead, the guy singing in this video.

  • Gary West was the original singer. Great unique voice. I loved his singing. However, Shooting Star still seem to get good fill-ins for Gary today.

  • Just a great song! Sorry, but wish music was like this today. Thanks for posting.

  • I remeber hearing this song on the radio when I was stationed in San Antonio for Air Force Training. What a song!!! Brings back some awesome memories when I was 19.

  • Meant to be forever young!!!!I love this song!!!!

  • This is a huge aor track. Thanks for sharing my friend

  • These guys are still great live ~ loads of energy!

  • meant to be forever young.....

  • Take me back, take me back to the summer of '85!!! "Barefoot girls walking on."

  • "You remember how it was..."

  • MTV- Summer '85..... Those days will never be forgotten down at Ocean City NJ.

  • Ditto that bds1167!

    For me it was Summer '85 in Wildwood, NJ! The chorus of this song makes the hairs on my arms stand up and gives me goose-bumps! Brilliant! And those girls at the Jersey Shore - Wow!

  • Dude..... 1985 at Ocean City, NJ was phenomenal. I worked at Prep's Pizzeria on the boardwalk, brother!!! "Summer Sun" is forever BURNED IN MY EXPERIENCE THAT SUMMER........

  • bds1167

    No doubt, brother. The Jersey shore was way cool back in the 80's, when music like this was on the radio and being blasted across the boardwalk and on the beach! Prep's pizza was pretty good too...

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  • Damn- has it been 24 years already?

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  • 24 years later, makes me pine for the mid-80's.

  • good old 80's tune

  • what happened to great music!!!! These were the days.

  • Great music is gone with hip hop and posers playing craps for bullocks who don't know what music means...

  • Hey old man, (Your words) we are a unique breed here in America, yes. But I would gladly trade places. I'll take the rainy/foggy day for the sweltering Summer Sun of the Arizona valley anytime. You say when and where. It'll be like 'The Holiday'. Let's switch places for a few months, eh?

  • I love this song!! thanks!! (from spain)

  • Great song and accompanying video. I loved the concept of the people becoming younger. Although in a different context, it reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode caled "Kick the Can." Can't find it to watch online, but it's about some old people in a nursing home who sneak outside in the middle of the night to play the game, and are suddenly children again...

  • OMG - My favorite movie scene of ALL time is the TZ Kick The Can. You are truly a unique soul. Not only do you recall this song, but you remember the precise premise of the TZ Movie scene, being forever young. That is SO awesome, I can't fathom it's depth. You rock! Please respond, if you'd like to comment further... -Susan

  • Yeah, & STD's too, OUCH!!

  • That brings me back memories. One time I was at a youth center before my senior year in high school, trying to enjoy the moment and I got that song in my head, and it makes perfect sense. What a rarity, and a find. Thanks for posting.

  • LOL, women in America are just as tainted. But many are even colder than you can imagine. A lot of materialistic and selfishness in females in the USA

  • Thanks boilerbop for putting this up!

  • Never knew there was a video for this. Nice post.

    On another note, for everyone else, there is software out there that will allow you to save flash videos and convert them to WMV...just do a google search!

  • its hard to find this stuff on CD!!! This is a great video!!

  • Ah, the summer of '85 working at Prep's Pizza in Ocean City, NJ. This makes me pine for those days!

  • Spent Senior Week in Wildwood, NJ when this song came out. Then my friend bought a 67 Mustang just like the one in the video. Spent a lot of time in OCNJ. Is that pizza place still there?

  • Love this song!!!

  • WOW, thank you soooo much. This brought me right back to 1985. I bought this on cassette when it came out. If I remember correctly it was right after this was released that the law suit kicked in and all their stuff was removed from the shelves. Let's not forget "are you on my side" from Hang on for your life. Another awesome tune.

  • Still have this on vinyl. What lawsuit?

  • One of the original members left the group right around the time "silent scream" was released. I think there was a battle over the band's name if i remember correctly. I could be wrong. It was a long time ago.

  • I love this band's sound. I bought all of the re-released early LP's when they made them available on their website. Great to have them on CD finally !!! Only saw them once live, they opened for Kiss I think, back when Hang On For Your Life came out !!

  • OMG these guys w/KISS?? Killer!! STP was supposed to be w/KISS in '97 when I saw them but Gene kicked them out, damn. Great hearing this again, gotta grab those remastered discs! Ah, I remember the Triumph, Kansas and Shooting Star days, back in the late 70's - 80's Thanks

  • Shooting Star truely a great band which has unfair radio success. Assuming they are big in Kansas City which I believe they are from. Last Chance is my all time favorite song. It has everything. Summer Sun came out in 1985, reminds me of Phillips Shoes where I worked.

  • What is Gary West doing now? I always wished I could have seen this band live.

  • Gary has been out of the music biz for years. He owns a radon detection company.

  • Thanks for letting me know. Do you know the family, or just a big fan?

  • I'm just a big fan and a member of their fan Yahoo! group. Occasionally, I get a little nugget of interesting info.

  • Can you post the lik for the fan group? As long as everyone is mentioning their fav song, ( on various vids)I really liked Hang on for your life. The whole album was great, but that song still makes me feel 18.

  • Hey, thanks for the video. I seen these guys back in late eighties at a small club in Cincinnati and they rocked the house. I agree with the poster on their songs to be found, my personal favorite is Flesh and Blood.

  • Does a video for the song Time exist? Would love to see it. It is off the same album as Summer Sun.

  • Too bad can't find their two BEST songs on YouTube.....LAST CHANCE and BRING IT ON.

    Anyone have 'em??

  • Have this one on vinyl. Reminds me of the summer of 1985!

  • This is a song that's always had,

    ( and still does ) the power to pull me into a

    " state of euphoria " ...

    everytime I hear it.

    Ty, boilerbop

    :+)

  • Thanks, boilerbop

    Man, this brings back some memories

    My first job was working for Gary's dad Glen.

    Wish I could turn the clock back 30 years.

  • I saw this group at a smalish club in the late eighties. Still the good old days

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