Coming up next it’s one of the biggest songs in rock history: Hit Me With You Best Shot. Everybody knows it. It’s played at stadiums and arenas the world over…from pro sports to colleges to high schools… And it would become Pat Benatar's signature song… but recently the song has been banned… banned by the rocker that made it famous. She has said she’ll never play it again. What? Well, this story we covered briefly in a countdown, but ya gotta hear the whole story. It's pretty incredible. And to think it all came from a pillow fight!
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So, it’s time for another edition of #1 in Our Hearts. This show honors songs that were so unbelievably great, they absolutely should've been #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. But for whatever reason, be it radio play, lack of marketing, label support or just sheer stupidity, the song came up short. On previous episodes, we have covered Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie, Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty, and Lunatic Fringe by Red Rider.
Today we are telling the story of the Top Ten rock smash ‘Hit Me with Your Best Shot’ from Pat Benatar’s 1980 sophomore LP Crimes of Passion. Pat Benatar was born Patricia Andrzejewski on 10 January 1953, in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in Lindenhurst on Long Island, New York. Something that definitely influences her image later on as a recording artist. Pat’s mother was actually a former opera singer and took the opportunity to train Pat in the art of opera singing growing up. However, by the time she was a teen, Pat discovered rock and roll. She became a fan of bands like Led Zeppelin and began to drift away from her operatic upbringing. Pat soon turned her attention to the Beatles, the Stones, Motown, and R&B.
At 19 Pat married her high school boyfriend Denis Benatar. After he was drafted into the army the couple relocated to Virginia, where Pat worked any music-related job she could find, including a gig as a singing waitress in a roaring twenties restaurant. She sang everything from cabaret and R&B to contemporary songs, and everywhere from nightclubs to hotel lounges. She went form being secretary to selling out arenas, so she paid her dues. In 1975 the couple moved back to New York, but their marriage was failing. Pat filed for divorce, but kept the name Benatar for her professional persona. On her own, she took whatever singing jobs she could find.
Pat got her big break in 1977 at a Manhattan club called ‘Catch a Rising Star’. There on an open-mic night, Pat took the stage at 3am. By that point the crowd was hardly paying attention, that is until Pat started singing. The song was Judy Garland’s ‘Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody’.
Said Pat, “Everybody just went crazy. I didn’t do anything spectacular. It was just one of those magical things.” Afterward, club owner Rick Newman approached Pat about...