Veteran Band had 2 HUGE Hits in 1982 Including a 6 week #1…So Where'd They Go? | Professor of Rock

After more than a decade of paying their dues on the road, nine studio albums of mixed success, and eleven singles that mostly struggled on the Hot 100… The J Geils Band was way overdue for their big break.. As luck would have it they entered the 80s just as a new sound was storming the airwaves, they finally figured out what listeners were looking for. Led by a semi risqué #1 hit, Centerfold about the singer finding out his once girlfriend is posing in magazine this song punctuated with some of the catchiest pop hooks known to the 80s, enabling this band to finally break through years after battling it out on the charts. They paid their dues for 14 years.. They ruled 1982 with Centerfold going to #1 for 6 weeks and the Title track Freeze Frame going to #4, they they pretty much vanished. It was so popular, I sang it in church as a 7 year old kid and got in huge trouble. The story of the song is . . NEXT on the Professor of Rock.

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I’m excited to return to another one of my favorite shows that we do on this channel. It’s called Breakthrough. We haven’t done one this in a while. In this show we breakdown songs, albums or events that kicked open the door to an artist or band’s career. On previous episodes we have covered Do You Believe in Love by Huey Lewis and the News, Boys Don’t Cry by The Cure, and West End Girls by Pet Shop Boys. Today we are telling the story behind the J. Geils Band and their 1981 hit Centerfold.

The J Geils Band has quite the history…they first came together in 1968 after charismatic singer Peter Wolf and drummer Stephen Jo Bladd left their group The Hallucinations. They teamed up with a Boston-based trio called the J. Geils Blues Band named after it’s guitarist John Warren Geils Jr., known professionally as Jay Geils. The two others in the band at the time were harmonica extraordinaire Magic Dick and bassist Danny Klein. Soon after, the group dropped ‘Blues’ from its name and added keyboardist Seth Justman as well. Although it would take some persistence on his part. By the time Seth had moved to Boston, he had already been in several rock bands. His first night there he caught a show by the J. Geils crew.

Said Justman, “I really thought that if I could jam with them, they’d let me join ... so I approached Jay and asked him if I could play with the band.”However, they weren’t interested in Seth. But that didn’t stop him from calling Jay every day to see if he had changed his mind. After three months of calls, and following the band to nearly all of their gigs, they finally gave in and made Seth a permanent part of the lineup.