Hit Parade: A Deal with the TV God Part 2

Published: July 1, 2022, 11:30 p.m.

b'For decades, British alt-pop goddess Kate Bush had never had a Top 10 hit in America. Now, in 2022, she finds herself in the Hot 100\\u2019s Top Five\\u2014and television got her there. Her classic \\u201cRunning Up That Hill\\u201d is featured prominently in the latest season of Netflix\\u2019s hit \\u201980s horror fantasy show Stranger Things.\\n\\nThis puts Bush in a long lineage of hits spawned or made bigger by TV, dating all the way back to Davy Crockett and Peter Gunn, through Hawaii Five-O and Happy Days, and peaking in the \\u201980s with Miami Vice and Family Ties.\\n\\nJoin host Chris Molanphy as he walks through more than six decades of hits from the so-called boob tube and reveals why\\u2014thanks to our streaming age\\u2014Kate Bush\\u2019s hit might be the biggest TV tune of all.\\n\\nPodcast production by Kevin Bendis.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'