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<\/a>Greg Kihn Band Releases\u00a0The Jeopardy EP –\u00a0Out Now!<\/h1>\nJeopardy originally released on the Kihnspiracy album in 1983. The song was written by Greg Kihn and Steve Wright. The recording was produced by Matthew King Kaufman.<\/p>\n
5 song Jeopardy EP<\/a> includes the1983 #1 Billboard Dance Hit:<\/p>\n Everything you ever wanted to know about the song \u201cJeopardy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n They say the best songs write themselves and that was exactly what happened with Jeopardy.\u00a0 <\/span>The one word that summarized everything about Jeopardy was \u201cmagic.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>It was magic from the first note.<\/span><\/p>\n It was 1983 and Steve Wright (my songwriting partner in the GKB) had just bought one of those new-fangled electric keyboards made by Casio.\u00a0 <\/span>This particular one had a funky drum machine built in.\u00a0 <\/span>Steve dropped by my house to show me his new toy.\u00a0 <\/span>He played a riff he had just composed on the Casio with that funky semi-disco beat.\u00a0 <\/span>Sometimes it seems that you pull a song out of the air, and that\u2019s what happened with Jeopardy.\u00a0 <\/span>It was as if the song was floating around in the atmosphere and I just snatched it up.\u00a0 <\/span>I started singing \u201cour love\u2019s in Jeopardy, whoo-whoo-whoo.\u00a0 <\/span>It was completely spontaneous.\u00a0 <\/span>Steve looked at me and we both realized what we\u2019d done.\u00a0 <\/span>Jeopardy was a natural.\u00a0 <\/span>We knew it from the first time we played it.\u00a0 <\/span>It took fifteen minutes to write it.\u00a0 <\/span>We recorded a demo on a boom box and played the tape for the band.\u00a0 <\/span>Each guy heard his part perfectly, and we worked up an arrangement in a few minutes.\u00a0 <\/span>It sounded so natural.\u00a0 <\/span>One of the things that sets Jeopardy apart from the rest of the GKB material was that our regular bass player, Steve Wright, played the keyboard and our keyboard player, Gary Phillips, played bass.\u00a0 <\/span>That weekend was had a gig in Chicago at the Park West and we played Jeopardy for the first time at the sound check.\u00a0 <\/span>It sounded so good we decided to do it in the show that night.\u00a0 <\/span>It was a hit from beginning.\u00a0 <\/span>People loved it.<\/span><\/p>\n We rushed home to Fantasy Studios in Berkeley to record Jeopardy before the magic dissipated.\u00a0 <\/span>We nailed that sucker in two takes.\u00a0 <\/span>Like I said, it was magic from start.\u00a0 <\/span>The record came out and rocketed up the charts and duked it out with Michael Jackson for the most part of that summer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We recorded the infamous Jeopardy video at Delores Mission in San Francisco, the church in the first \u201cDirty Harry\u201d movie.\u00a0 <\/span>We taped it in one monster 72-hour video session.\u00a0 <\/span>We shot the first zombie-themed video in the actual church after hours.\u00a0 <\/span>I know we\u2019re all going to hell for the things we did in the church at 3:00am.\u00a0 <\/span>We had to get creative with the special effects and director Joe Dea had a giant latex dragon, which was supposed to crash out of the floor and attack me.\u00a0 <\/span>We wrapped the snake around me and shot the scene in reverse, so when they played it back, it really looked like it was grabbing me.\u00a0 <\/span>Also I\u2019ll never get the taste of Campbell\u2019s Pea soup out of my skin after getting several gallons of it shot in my face with squirt guns to simulate the dragon\u2019s blood.\u00a0 <\/span>The video was one of the first \u201cconcept videos\u201d and enjoyed a ton of airplay on MTV.<\/span><\/p>\n Jeopardy went on to become a number worldwide hit.\u00a0 <\/span>I won the coveted \u201cInternational Artist of the Year\u201d and performed on the Eurovision in the south of France.\u00a0 <\/span>Maybe the biggest kick was appearing with Weird Al on his parody of \u201cI Lost On Jeopardy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In the meantime the band played constantly and got a huge amount of radio airplay.\u00a0 <\/span>We did a huge tour with Journey and played all the big arenas around the country.\u00a0 <\/span>We opened for the Rolling Stones and performed on Saturday Night Live.\u00a0 <\/span>Jeopardy remains one of my most requested songs.\u00a0 <\/span>Now, this new mix brings a classic song back on the public eye.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “Jeopardy<\/b>” is a hit song released in 1983 by The Greg Kihn Band<\/a> on their album Kihnspiracy<\/i>. It is the band’s first and only Top 10 hit on the Billboard<\/i> Hot 100<\/a> singles chart, reaching number 2 in May 1983 and also hitting number 1 on the dance charts for two weeks a month earlier. The song also reached number 63 on the UK Singles Chart<\/a>, becoming the band’s only charting song in the UK.<\/p>\n A parody of the song, titled “I Lost on Jeopardy<\/a>“, was released by “Weird Al” Yankovic<\/a> in 1984. Kihn appeared in a cameo<\/a> in the music video for Yankovic’s parody, driving the car into which Yankovic is thrown after being “ejected” from the Jeopardy!<\/a><\/i> game show.<\/p>\n Jeopardy<\/p>\n Oh Oh Oh Oh You’re running me around Our love’s in jeopardy, baby, ooh Don’t be cute, don’t be funny now Don’t let go while I’m hanging on Our love’s in jeopardy, baby, ooh Don’t let go while I’m hanging on Our love’s in jeopardy, baby, ooh Love in jeopardy, baby<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Everything you ever wanted to know about the song \u201cJeopardy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n They say the best songs write themselves and that was exactly what happened with Jeopardy.\u00a0 <\/span>The one word that summarized everything about Jeopardy was \u201cmagic.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>It was magic from the first note.<\/span><\/p>\r\n It was 1983 and Steve Wright (my songwriting partner in the GKB) had just bought one of those new-fangled electric keyboards made by Casio.\u00a0 <\/span>This particular one had a funky drum machine built in.\u00a0 <\/span>Steve dropped by my house to show me his new toy.\u00a0 <\/span>He played a riff he had just composed on the Casio with that funky semi-disco beat.\u00a0 <\/span>Sometimes it seems that you pull a song out of the air, and that\u2019s what happened with Jeopardy.\u00a0 <\/span>It was as if the song was floating around in the atmosphere and I just snatched it up.\u00a0 <\/span>I started singing \u201cour love\u2019s in Jeopardy, whoo-whoo-whoo.\u00a0 <\/span>It was completely spontaneous.\u00a0 <\/span>Steve looked at me and we both realized what we\u2019d done.\u00a0 <\/span>Jeopardy was a natural.\u00a0 <\/span>We knew it from the first time we played it.\u00a0 <\/span>It took fifteen minutes to write it.\u00a0 <\/span>We recorded a demo on a boom box and played the tape for the band.\u00a0 <\/span>Each guy heard his part perfectly, and we worked up an arrangement in a few minutes.\u00a0 <\/span>It sounded so natural.\u00a0 <\/span>One of the things that sets Jeopardy apart from the rest of the GKB material was that our regular bass player, Steve Wright, played the keyboard and our keyboard player, Gary Phillips, played bass.\u00a0 <\/span>That weekend was had a gig in Chicago at the Park West and we played Jeopardy for the first time at the sound check.\u00a0 <\/span>It sounded so good we decided to do it in the show that night.\u00a0 <\/span>It was a hit from beginning.\u00a0 <\/span>People loved it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n We rushed home to Fantasy Studios in Berkeley to record Jeopardy before the magic dissipated.\u00a0 <\/span>We nailed that sucker in two takes.\u00a0 <\/span>Like I said, it was magic from start.\u00a0 <\/span>The record came out and rocketed up the charts and duked it out with Michael Jackson for the most part of that summer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n We recorded the infamous Jeopardy video at Delores Mission in San Francisco, the church in the first \u201cDirty Harry\u201d movie.\u00a0 <\/span>We taped it in one monster 72-hour video session.\u00a0 <\/span>We shot the first zombie-themed video in the actual church after hours.\u00a0 <\/span>I know we\u2019re all going to hell for the things we did in the church at 3:00am.\u00a0 <\/span>We had to get creative with the special effects and director Joe Dea had a giant latex dragon, which was supposed to crash out of the floor and attack me.\u00a0 <\/span>We wrapped the snake around me and shot the scene in reverse, so when they played it back, it really looked like it was grabbing me.\u00a0 <\/span>Also I\u2019ll never get the taste of Campbell\u2019s Pea soup out of my skin after getting several gallons of it shot in my face with squirt guns to simulate the dragon\u2019s blood.\u00a0 <\/span>The video was one of the first \u201cconcept videos\u201d and enjoyed a ton of airplay on MTV.<\/span><\/p>\r\n Jeopardy went on to become a number worldwide hit.\u00a0 <\/span>I won the coveted \u201cInternational Artist of the Year\u201d and performed on the Eurovision in the south of France.\u00a0 <\/span>Maybe the biggest kick was appearing with Weird Al on his parody of \u201cI Lost On Jeopardy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n In the meantime the band played constantly and got a huge amount of radio airplay.\u00a0 <\/span>We did a huge tour with Journey and played all the big arenas around the country.\u00a0 <\/span>We opened for the Rolling Stones and performed on Saturday Night Live.\u00a0 <\/span>Jeopardy remains one of my most requested songs.\u00a0 <\/span>Now, this new mix brings a classic song back on the public eye.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n\"Jeopardy<\/b>\" is a hit song released in 1983 by The Greg Kihn Band<\/a> on their album Kihnspiracy<\/i>. It is the band's first and only Top 10 hit on the Billboard<\/i> Hot 100<\/a> singles chart, reaching number 2 in May 1983 and also hitting number 1 on the dance charts for two weeks a month earlier. The song also reached number 63 on the UK Singles Chart<\/a>, becoming the band's only charting song in the UK.\r\n\r\nA parody of the song, titled \"I Lost on Jeopardy<\/a>\", was released by \"Weird Al\" Yankovic<\/a> in 1984. Kihn appeared in a cameo<\/a> in the music video for Yankovic's parody, driving the car into which Yankovic is thrown after being \"ejected\" from the Jeopardy!<\/a><\/i> game show.\r\n Jeopardy<\/p>\r\n Oh Oh Oh Oh\r\nWhere were you when I needed you\r\nWell you could not be found\r\nWhat can I do, oh I believed in you<\/p>\r\n You're running me around\r\nWell you can take it as a warning\r\nOr take it anyway you like\r\nIt's the lightning, not the thunder\r\nYou never know where it's gonna strike<\/p>\r\n Our love's in jeopardy, baby, ooh\r\nOur love's in jeopardy, baby, ooh<\/p>\r\n Don't be cute, don't be funny now\r\nIt's later than you think\r\nOh what's the use, save your money now\r\nIt's hanging on the brink<\/p>\r\n Don't let go while I'm hanging on\r\n'Cause I've been hanging on so long\r\nIt's so hard to be all alone\r\nI know you're not that strong, yeah, yeah<\/p>\r\n Our love's in jeopardy, baby, ooh\r\nOur love's in jeopardy, baby, ooh<\/p>\r\n Don't let go while I'm hanging on\r\n'Cause I've been hanging on so long\r\nIt's so hard to be all alone\r\nI know you're not that strong, yeah, yeah<\/p>\r\n Our love's in jeopardy, baby, ooh\r\nOur love's in jeopardy, baby, ooh\r\nOur love's in jeopardy, jeopardy, baby, ooh\r\nOur love's in jeopardy, jeopardy, baby, ooh<\/p>\r\n Love in jeopardy, baby<\/p>\r\n\r\n\n
Download your copy of the Jeopardy EP today!<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nWhere were you when I needed you
\nWell you could not be found
\nWhat can I do, oh I believed in you<\/p>\n
\nWell you can take it as a warning
\nOr take it anyway you like
\nIt’s the lightning, not the thunder
\nYou never know where it’s gonna strike<\/p>\n
\nOur love’s in jeopardy, baby, ooh<\/p>\n
\nIt’s later than you think
\nOh what’s the use, save your money now
\nIt’s hanging on the brink<\/p>\n
\n‘Cause I’ve been hanging on so long
\nIt’s so hard to be all alone
\nI know you’re not that strong, yeah, yeah<\/p>\n
\nOur love’s in jeopardy, baby, ooh<\/p>\n
\n‘Cause I’ve been hanging on so long
\nIt’s so hard to be all alone
\nI know you’re not that strong, yeah, yeah<\/p>\n
\nOur love’s in jeopardy, baby, ooh
\nOur love’s in jeopardy, jeopardy, baby, ooh
\nOur love’s in jeopardy, jeopardy, baby, ooh<\/p>\nDownload your copy of the Jeopardy EP today!<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a>Greg Kihn Band Releases\u00a0The Jeopardy EP -\u00a0Out Now!<\/h1>\r\nJeopardy originally released on the Kihnspiracy album in 1983. The song was written by Greg Kihn and Steve Wright. The recording was produced by Matthew King Kaufman.\r\n\r\n5 song Jeopardy EP<\/a> includes the1983 #1 Billboard Dance Hit:\r\n\r\n \t
Download your copy of the Jeopardy EP today!<\/a><\/h2>\r\n
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