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I found out after Benny died that those vocals at the end were sung as guidance for a saxophone solo they were going to lay on in post-production. After they heard the voice they decided to keep it. I wish my friend was alive so I could ask him to confirm or deny.

The vocals at the end are Benny singing out guidance for a saxophone solo they were going to lay on in post-production. After they heard the vocals, they forgot all about that saxophone and went with what THE VOICE had laid down!

He confirmed that in a couple of interviews that I saw him in. so you are correct about the saxophone!

@@adamhommey Just watched your interview Professor !

Yep, that sounds just like Benny. I fully believe your story. He was one of my best friends for the last 11 years of his life. Man, was he a riot. I miss him fierce.

This is beautiful, to read, thank you! Miss Benny so much!!!

Thanx demand 4 sharing ur awesome story!

​@adamhommey I just heard this song and fell in love with his music. I started looking into the several clips on the background of this song. The first story was about the abandoned children then I came across this clip that he made about saying good-bye to Angie McCartney and he talks about the beetles and Angie's daughter Ruth, possibly being his child. So, do you know anything about this clip? I'd love to hear your opinion on this. Thanks kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d6unh5Seut2snnU.htmlsi=wbbLH_ujOZoN6YZW

Debbie...yr old like me...hehe

@@michaelasay8587 Yes, I am LOL!! I feel very lucky to have been 22 in 1980, had the time of my life in the 80's!!

I am a bit disturbed with it's pro-statutory rape message though,

@@EricAmosCheck- That’s not what it’s about at all. Google the song 🤓

​@@michaelasay8587and like me...🤣🤣🤣

Me also! 🎉

Hi Syracuse. My second home and Alma mater.

Syracuse born and bread. Benny, in the water like smell of Colubus Bakery, Dominic's, 805, Fall days in Lafayette picing apples.. Great stuff.

@@mark-be9mq Yes Syracuse is a great city. Very different than other cities.

Unfortunately Benny has passed away and I've just discovered his beautiful music and I can't say that I've seen him in concert and unfortunately I won't but I have his music to listen to especially this song

I’m from Watertown…..just an hour north!!! His vocals really are something to admire. I wish I could of seen him live!!

Love me some K-Tel!!!😂

Forgot about k-tel

😁👍🏼 I remember K-Tel. 🤣😂😅😆😁😄😃😀

Same here

Good call. I knew this song charted twice but wasn't sure what year the second time was.

Wonder what brought the song back in 1989?

susan, a dj did a where are they now segment and played it. other stations followed suit.

@@steelethescene I saw that

Wherever you copy pasted his name from is incorrect. His legal name according to his driver's license, which I saw, was Ruben Armand Mardones, Jr. Incidentally he has a half-brother in Chile who is named Ruben Armand Mardones II.

My wife was 17 and I was 24 we’ve been married 42 years twin daughters one son and four grandkids sometimes it just works what also helped our family knew each other for a long time. I wouldn’t change a thing

Man was way older than that, he should not have been talking about a 16 yr old... he was in his late 30's!! 🤮🤢🤮🤢

I was 16 my husband was 18.....38 years together with 3 children....I always loved this song!!

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great story to hear True love ❤️ Australia 💕 Christina

@@b.a.j5168 he wasn't really having an affair with a 16yr old. It's a song he wrote after telling someone he knew to leave the neighbors daughter alone.

I can verify. Benny was a friend of mine for many years. 20, even 30+ years on, she still sent Benny cards and letters thanking him for his kindness and helping her family when they were in the spot after their dad walked out. He showed them to me. Heidi attended a memorial concert held in Benny's honor in Syracuse last year. I couldn't make it, but about 20 of my friends were there and got to meet her. I can also attest to his generosity, kindness, and overall good nature as a human being.

@@adamhommey What a legend! RIP Benny 🙏

Call the Fire Department 🚒 😂😂

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Wow. Didn't realize he passed away two years ago. Loved this song as a kid and forever will. The 80's was a very great time for music 🎶❤️💯

He was the very first guest I ever had on my first podcast and the first 5 minutes is him telling the story. Furthermore, I saw some of the cards and letters Heidi sent him 20, even 30+ years later, thanking him for what he had done for the family. Heidi appeared at a memorial concert for Benny that took place in Syracuse last year. I wasn't there, but a lot of my friends were and got to meet her.

No it's not that's damage control in the video he's hanging out her window and kissing her at the end he made up that bs story

@@adamhommeythen interview her. Because if his story is true, he should have refused to do that video. It’s not just the first line; the whole song is disgusting. Voice an absolute gift, but it makes me vomit that I can’t get it out of my head. I HOPE the story is true, but the lyrics and video glorify and normalize pedœ-u-no-wh@t

@@walkinharmonyhomestead2888 you will stop spreading libel and slander about Benny. PERIOD. END OF CONVERSATION.

@@adamhommey What a shame. I really liked you. But no one can justify or defend that video. I never said anything libelous or slanderous. I never said he did anything wrong. I said, I hope the story he told you (and others) is true. But that video is sick. Period.

God! I miss him!! I adore this song, so much!!

Four times, actually. The 1980 original charted in 1980 on mainstream It was actually the 1989 remake that charted in 1989 on mainstream The 2002 remake charted in 2002 on adult contemporary The 2019 remake, which was based on a 2009 re-recording with a dance track overlaid, charted on dance in 2019 Four versions, four chart hits. Currently under consideration for the Guinness Book of World Records for the number of decades, millenia, versions, different producers, and different genres it gained traction on.

um Bull!!!!!!!!!!

@@susanelkins3068 oh yr bulls!

That's what they all say! 😆

Dig deeper. There's old interviews he gave when it came out. Not good. Why do you think he "took care" of them? He was paying to keep them quiet.

I call bull on all these replies, @Janice Duke is right, there are interviews out there with Benny telling this story. The 16 yr old, her sister(17) and her brother (15) knocked on his door crying after their father left the family. He tried to comfort them the best he could, then told them he would give them jobs. He gave the brother 20 dollars a week to run grocery errands, and the sister 50 dollars a week to walk his dog before and after school. Benny and his songwriting partner had worked the entire night on the song, had the melody but didn't have words or a good first line into the song. He had the windows blacked out and didn't realize it was morning until the 16 yr old opened the door to pick up the bassett hound to go for a walk. She came in dressed in his words "a sixteen yr old going on 21". When she left with the dog, his writing partner said something like "Good Lord", and Benny said to him "She's just 16 yrs old, leave her alone." Then he started using the line in the song, and the rest of the song wrote itself. When the song started to take off, some radio station or promoter asked Benny if the girl was real or made up, he said real. They wanted to put her on the air, which they did. She was a hit and because of that she ended up meeting and marrying the son of a real estate developer who developed properties many places including Puerto Rico. She ended up living in a mansion there and took her mother to live with her and her brother got a job with the company. She sent him Christmas cards every year and never forgot the help he gave her family.

And what's a Benny Mardones throwdown without "Thank God for Girls!" The recording of the song on the album by the same name doesn't do justice to how he rocked it live. On Spotify there is a live performance on the Club 37 album. The website for a theater called Wolfgang's where Benny did a 3-night stand the year before "Never Run, Never Hide" came out sells recordings of all 3 nights!

They’ve done that one. Their reaction was hilarious!

good call, i just remember bob saggett on full house singing this lol

What a pedo theme

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And that's the reaction any normal grown man would have 💯 especially a father of a young daughter

Not exactly. He was born in Cleveland, OH and grew up in Savage, MD. Benny's full name was Ruben Armand Mardones, Jr. His father (obviously Ruben Armand Mardones, Sr.) was Chilean, of Mapuche and Castilian ancestry; his mother was American of German ancestry. In person, he was short, stout, very Native American looking with a large head and narrow shoulders, with natural blond hair. Ruben Sr. left when Benny and his full sister were toddler-aged. He took up with a woman who he had a daughter with (the daughter was put up for adoption but eventually found Benny and they got to meet); Ruben Sr. went back to Chile and had two more daughters (Patricia and Pamela) and two more sons (Ruben Armand II and Patricio) through his second and third marriages. Benny eventually met all of his half-siblings, though some of them don't speak English and they had to communicate through a translator.

Is origen chileno

​@@robertofigueroa1620.. German origin

This Song still gives me goosebumps

Thank is SO AMAZING!!! I had heard that from Benny, in an interview with him!!!