Saturday Nine: On the Radio (1979)

This week's Saturday Nine:

I haven't done one of these in over a year, so I thought I'd bring it back.

You can hear this week's song here.

1. The action begins when a letter falls out of the pocket of a brown overcoat. What colour is your coat? Black. Every single one of my coats is black, from my down parka to my cashmere wool trench.
   
   
2. The lyrics ask if it "kinda strikes you sad when you hear our song." We don't want to be sad this Saturday, so we're asking what song makes you happy. Jin's solo song, "Moon," from BTS' Map of the Soul: 7. It's his love song to ARMY, and it's just so pure and poppy. Immediately puts me in a good mood.
   
   
   
3. Right before this song hit the charts, Donna Summer hit the cover of Newsweek. Are there any magazines in your home now? If yes, who is on the cover? Any magazine that I keep at home has BTS on the cover. Quite frankly, the only reason I even buy a magazine is because BTS is on the cover.
   
   
4. Donna wrote the lyrics to this song, while producer Giorgio Moroder wrote the tune. Moroder is known as "the father of disco." Is disco a genre you enjoy? Not regularly, but I can definitely get down to some Bee Gees or some ABBA.
   
   
5. This song got additional airplay throughout the 1980s because the game show The Price Is Right played it every time a contestant won a stereo. Today, the most popular audio equipment sold at Best Buy is a sound bar to improve the quality of TV audio. Have you added a sound bar or sound system to your TV? Yep.
   
   
6. Moroder has won two Academy Awards for Best Song. The first was for "Flashdance... What a Feeling" from Flashdance and the second was for "Take My Breath Away" from Top Gun. Do you have a favourite movie soundtrack? Romeo + Juliet. It's been my favourite movie soundtrack since 1996. Runner-ups include Cruel Intentions, Clueless, 10 Things I Hate About You, Sucker Punch, Donnie Darko, Garden State, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1, Veronica Mars, and Twilight.
   
   
7. He grew up in Ortsei, Italy. Located in Northern Italy, the Ortsei economy is fueled by tourists who ski in winter, hike in summer, and shop for woodcarvings all year around. Do out-of-towners find their way to your hometown more often in summer or winter? I would say summer, especially since the CNE is open in the last two weeks of August and the Toronto International Film Festival is in early September. In the winter, I find more people go to Whistler or Banff or Tremblant for winter sports rather than Toronto.
   
   
8. Kourtney Kardashian was born in 1979, the year this record was a hit. Keeping Up with the Kardashians has been on since 2007. Have you ever seen it? I have never watched a single episode of anything the Kardashians/Jenners have been on.
   
   
9. Random question — When getting dressed in the morning, what's the second item of clothing you put on? A short-sleeved tee. (Always short-sleeved, even in the winter, because I take my blood pressure in the morning.)