1983 Songs: Legs
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86713)
United States
June 10, 2023 11:03am CST
Welcome to 1983, the year that nobody remembers in music! 
Oh, don’t worry, there are songs you will remember. I just haven’t found any of them yet. It’s still relatively early in the month, though. So, for JJ’s entertainment and mine (since we’re the only two who’ll remember this ), here’s today’s 40-year-old song.
Legs - ZZ Top
And you’re thinking, hey, didn’t you use them in the 1973 countdown, too? Why, yes! Thanks for noticing! That li’l ol’ band from Texas shows how enduring they are by being around for two countdowns for years a decade apart.
If you remember a few days ago I mentioned that Tim Newman directed his cousin Randy Newman’s video for “I Love L.A.” Well, he’s back!! Tim Newman also directed those memorable ZZ Top videos in the early 80s. No, I didn’t link the video here (I tend to like the Billy Gibbons-only vocal mix of this song), but you remember it.
Or, the way I’m going this month, probably not. 
Legs
Written by Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard
Recorded by ZZ Top
From Eliminator, 1983
Stays out at night:
Oh, don’t worry, there are songs you will remember. I just haven’t found any of them yet. It’s still relatively early in the month, though. So, for JJ’s entertainment and mine (since we’re the only two who’ll remember this ), here’s today’s 40-year-old song.
Legs - ZZ Top
And you’re thinking, hey, didn’t you use them in the 1973 countdown, too? Why, yes! Thanks for noticing! That li’l ol’ band from Texas shows how enduring they are by being around for two countdowns for years a decade apart.
If you remember a few days ago I mentioned that Tim Newman directed his cousin Randy Newman’s video for “I Love L.A.” Well, he’s back!! Tim Newman also directed those memorable ZZ Top videos in the early 80s. No, I didn’t link the video here (I tend to like the Billy Gibbons-only vocal mix of this song), but you remember it.
Or, the way I’m going this month, probably not.
Legs
Written by Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard
Recorded by ZZ Top
From Eliminator, 1983
Stays out at night:
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@RasmaSandra (98033)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
10 Jun 23
Nope not familiar with this one. I do remember ZZ Top on my favorite series Bones.
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@FourWalls (86713)
• United States
11 Jun 23
My brother saw the, and said they were fantastic in concert.
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@RasmaSandra (98033)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
11 Jun 23
@FourWalls didn't Rod Stewart have a song called Hot Legs?
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@dgobucks226 (37621)
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24 Jun 23
Seems Billy Gibbons was a "Legs" man! Now that's a beautiful inspiration for a song! And she knows how to use them I'm sure the feminists were happy about that tune 
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@FourWalls (86713)
• United States
24 Jun 23
This was about the same time that Joe Walsh had the song “I.L.B.T.s” (which I have to leave to you to look up because I can’t post what it stands for [and yes, “I.L.B.T.s” was the title]), so they had something else to gripe about than “Legs.”
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@AmbiePam (120841)
• United States
10 Jun 23
I played the music video to see if I recognized the song once they started singing it, but not only did I not recognize the song, my dog, Sadie, reached over and bit my hand when they started to sing. I'm thinking she's not a ZZ Top fan.
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@FourWalls (86713)
• United States
11 Jun 23
Might have to dig out some “Hound Dog” for Sadie.
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
11 Jun 23
No one did anything like this..they were terrific.
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
11 Jun 23
@FourWalls Yes they did..amazing fellows indeed.
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@FourWalls (86713)
• United States
11 Jun 23
They were terrific, and it’s funny how they could “adapt” their sound without really changing their sound that much.
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@FourWalls (86713)
• United States
11 Jun 23
I think it got overplayed and ruined it (like sweet home alafreebird).
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@Dena91 (17039)
• United States
11 Jun 23
@FourWalls Yep, that is why I'm not a big fan of it.
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@LindaOHio (222417)
• United States
11 Jun 23
I remember this song and ZZ Top very well. Have a good Sunday.
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@FourWalls (86713)
• United States
11 Jun 23
See, I’m not totally weird. Just 99.386517836478516478563875%.
You have a good Sunday too!
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@LindaOHio (222417)
• United States
12 Jun 23
@FourWalls ***I*** never said you were weird. :-D Thank you very much.
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
10 Jun 23
This is so perfect because Hubby and I were talking about this video the other day. He thought this was filmed in the shopping center where I just got my hair done . . . but turns out it was somewhere else (Santa Clarita, 30 min from here). ANYWAY. Saw this video less than a week ago!
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@FourWalls (86713)
• United States
10 Jun 23
I like the video, but I just like this vocal mix better. But that video is a classic!
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
11 Jun 23
@FourWalls Hubby says he did see a filming of some ZZ Top music video in our Valley - has proof with a photo of that ZZ Top vehicle he took. But hmmm - which one was it if it was not this one.
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@wolfgirl569 (135791)
• Marion, Ohio
10 Jun 23
You would think I would remember more of them as I graduated that year. But I don't
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@FourWalls (86713)
• United States
11 Jun 23
You were busy graduating, not watching MTV.
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@wolfgirl569 (135791)
• Marion, Ohio
11 Jun 23
@FourWalls Actually out here in the middle of nowhere we couldn't get MTV
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@FourWalls (86713)
• United States
10 Jun 23
You got legs? Right up to your fanny? 
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@Chellezhere (6421)
• United States
10 Jun 23
It's my fault. I was 15 in 1983, so I kid you not. I have the entire song catalog locked inside my head.
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@FourWalls (86713)
• United States
11 Jun 23
I know the feeling. I can remember the song order for albums from the 70s better than I can remember what I had for lunch.
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@Chellezhere (6421)
• United States
11 Jun 23
@FourWalls Most of my mental musical playlists ranges from 1967 to 1984.
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