This is the music that our generation grew up with. How lucky were we! No crap music, no auto tune, just brilliant musicians at the top of their game!!

Hate to break it to you but for those of us who grew up in the 70's and 80's, this was just one of our average everyday songs. Man were we spoiled or what.

Hold the line.......their first hit. Definitely worth a listen or sixty.

Love song called "99" by Toto

The guy with mustache singing in the higher soulful voice is Bobby Kimball. He is from my hometown of Vinton, Louisiana and is a family friend. Check out " Hold The Line " Bobby sings lead on that one.

Hold the line, stop loving you, africa and rosanna are my favourites

The Rosanna Shuffle is taught to drum students, it’s so epic and first of its kind! Thanks for doing this!!!!

Rosanna! Ear candy for sure. Hold the Line a must listen. 🎹🎷🥁🎤🎸🎺🎶🔥

Toto is def one of the best band in the world. Not one song goes wrong

Jeff Porcaro on drums one of the best ever, Steve Lukather on guitar one of the greatest, Bobby Kimball on vocals, David Paich on keys, Steve Porcaro on keyboards, sprinkled with Chicago's Pankow, Tom Scott on sax etc.

The co-founder and guitarist Steve Lukather is a legend, he played/wrote/colaboited with everyone in the music industry in the 1980’s.

The dancer is Cynthia Rhodes who played Penny in Dirty Dancing. Patrick Swayze is the dancer in the red jacket. He takes the jacket off toward the end of the video and has on a gray muscle shirt. You can see his face at about 4:25 in the official video.

Toto was BIG in the 80s. Love this song, written supposedly for the actress Rosanna Arquette.

Just when you think it can’t get any better, it does.

You’ve known toto, even if you don’t know them.. each member was a legendary studio musician. together they played on more then 5000 albums of other bands/singers etc… since early/mid 70’s..

Jeff Porcaro master drummer! RIP. Hold The Line is another great Toto song.

great band ...but my favourite will always be Hold The Line...which i think was their first hit

My generation had the best music!!!

The TOTO IV album is one of the most solid albums. Every song is pretty darn good. You could play whole album through and not be bored.

This song and “In Your Eyes” by Peter Gabriel are written about the same person - actress Rosanna Arquette who dated both Gabriel and Toto keyboardist Steve Pocaro at different times

The blond dancer in the red dress, Cynthia Rhodes, went on to marry singer Richard Marx. You should check out some of his music like "Endless Summer Nights" or "Right Here Waiting For You".

Loss for words is an entirely appropriate reaction. Everything about this song is great. I particularly like the drum shuffle and the horn riffs.

Along with Peter Gabriel's IN YOUR EYES, (after dating her briefly) this song is also written about the singer's love interest, ROSSANNA ARQUETE (Brother David was in the SCREAM MOVIES, her sister,Patricia, the star of NBC's MEDIUM). This made her the 2nd most written about woman in rock history with Eric Clapton/George Harrison's ex wife, Patti Boyd (having nearly 10 songs written about her) being the first.

Just a little information about Toto. Several of the members were very in demand studio musicians. There is a very famous '70s singer named Boz Scaggs, and his hit album in the mid '70s called Silk Degrees has several of Toto's members as the studio band. Boz actually suggested to them that they should start their own band and shortly after that Toto existed. The woman who was dancing in the video is Cynthia Rhodes. She is a triple threat dancer, singer, and actress. She was famously in Dirty Dancing as Patrick swayze's friend who was pregnant. She was also in another famous video by Richard Marx, who she later married, called "Don't mean nothing". But my favorite thing that she did was she was in part two of Saturday Night Fever with John Travolta, a movie called "Staying Alive". You have to listen to her song "finding out the hard way" from the soundtrack of the movie. She has a beautiful voice. Back to Toto, please do "hold the line". If you liked Bobby Kimball's voice in Rosanna, you're going to love his lead vocals on "hold the line". kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iuB5kriX16uRYok.htmlsi=iBL9CE3Wcn8xqZNw

Steve Lukather is considered one of the best guitarist of all time, and his vocals are underrated in my opinion.

One of two hit songs written about Rosanna Arquette. In Your Eyes is another one...

Love TOTO. Their live version of "Africa" is great, fabulous and stupendos!

Toto was Fire! So much musical sophistication...A joy to listen to!

Drummer, base player and keyboardist with big glasses were brothers.

Steve Lukather is a great guitarist and he really lets loose on Hold the Line.

If you watch a live concert version, that jazz jam at the end is r-e-a-l-l-y extended. Wonderful to watch. Great live band.

"Rosanna" is a classic. A very underrated song by Toto is "Holyanna". Also an incredible arrangement.

Two amazing driving songs that summer - "Rosanna" and "Don’t You Want Me." My parents had just bought a car with an awesome stereo and I just got my license. Love the long version, especially. (An aside - the woman dancing in the video is Cynthia Rhodes, most famous for playing Penny in Dirty Dancing.)

Just saw them two weeks ago. Still so damn good. Steve Lukather is a guitar god. One of the most utilized session musicians of the decade. He did the guitar for Michael Jackson's Beat It (except Eddie's solo).

It's always fun and it kind of blows my mind to see the guys with Toto again and the reactions/comments about them. With Toto you have some of the most crack musicians of their era. These guys have played on albums that have sold hundreds of millions of albums including Steely Dan, Springstein and Boz Scaggs. Tom Scott also plays horns on this track, he arranged the horns and plays on SD's Aja album. I guess I'm kind of bias, I went to HS with the guys in LA, Jeff, Mike, Steve Porcaro, Lukather and Paich, it was a wild and musical time be be in HS to say the least! Tom Scott also went to my HS along with drummer Jim Gordon and Kevin Dubrow of Quiet Riot, I didn't like him much. It's still all very strange. En Toto=In Total, all genres of music. These memories make it a great time to still be alive!

When he said “ who is this band?” I felt so old …. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😮😮😮😮 , wow…

Patrick swayze is one of the dancers

If you have decent car speakers this is the BEST song when you’re stuck in traffic. You can break out the air guitar and drums. Chair-dance and use your water bottle mic for your lead vocals. I literally gathered my children and introduced them to the greatness of this song.

That's our GenX music!!! ❤❤❤

You said it; unbelievable arrangement of one of the greatest bands,songs and top notch video

Michael Porcaro (RIP) on the base in this video and his brother Jeff Porkaro (RIP) playing the drums.

This song was one of the hottest songs in the hot 80’s , it reminded me of those first few years of MTV in the early 80’s 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

TOTO is a band that has many sounds. My favorite song by them is "I won't hold you back" 😊 I had tickets to their concert last year, and it got cancelled due to a band member being sick. I was so bummed out 😭 hope they come back so i can finally see them live

It still hits like a hammer - we grew up with it and loved it , nice to see you catching up!

Jeff Porcaro laying down that famous drum groove, the "Rosanna shuffle." Also featuring the best outro solo ever by the great Steve Lukather. 🔥

It was written for Rosanna Arquette (older sister of Patricia and David).

“99” and “Georgy porgy” are my favorite- which both have guitarist Steve Lukather on lead vocals

Thanks my friend!!! You have found gold itself, Toto is the biggest, the best; David Paich on piano; Steve Lukather, on guitar; Jeff Porcaro on drums (he died very young and in a ridiculous accident, he was a genius); Bobby Kimball, on vocals; Mike Porcaro on bass (in this video although I think the album was recorded by David Hungate) and Steve Porcaro on keyboards (although he was not a permanent member of the band); excellence 100% Other songs: Africa, Till the end, Pamela, Hydra, Child Anthem, 99, well, it would be naming almost their entire discography, which is incredible. Hug from Argentina

This is why studio musicians are the best at what they do. Glen Campbell was one hell of a studio musician before he went solo. I do recommend watching them live because you'll get one hell of a show with some great musicians.

Iconic. Fun tune! Again, love that you do a little research prior to a listen. Respect.

The bass player on the video is Mike Porcaro (rip), but David Hungate played the track on the recording.

Patrick Swazey is one of the guy dancers and the girl is Cynthia Rhodes and she and Patrick were both in Dirty Dancing 🕺

A little fact people don't know, that ending was never rehearsed. It was only supposed to end with Rosanna, but David Paich (Keyboardist) and Jeff Porcaro (Drummer) improvised the ending part and the band just kept going, in an interview with Steve Lukather (Guitarist) from 2022 from Sunset sound he mentioned that and said, "You don't stop until the band stops". Also its worth mentioning the bassist who played on this record isn't the same guy in the music video, David Hungate was their original bassist but left in 1982 which was then replaced with Mike Porcaro who unfortunately passed away from ALS 9 years ago following the death of his brother Jeff Porcaro back in 1992, David Hungate would return however for Toto XIV in 2015 but would only tour with them from when the album released that same year, they've had other bassists since Mike's unfortunate diagnosis it 2007, other bassists including the Legend Leland Sklar, Nathen East, David Hungate for Toto XIV, Shem von Schroeck, and their latest and current bassist John Pierce.

Luke’s (Steve Lukather) solo stuff is also brilliant

TOTO come for the hits -- stay for the solid rock tunes. Most of their stuff is hard rock virtuoso performances and incredible arrangements.

Thanks, Lynn!! 😁

Until I saw this yt reactions, I realise how extraordinary was Toto. For us, back in the 80, this was just a normal, everyday band. 😂

The Porcaro brothers were instrumental in the creation of Thriller by Michael Jackson. Steve wrote Human Nature and played synthesizers for several songs on the album, while his brother Jeff played the drums for several songs. I love Toto! They have such great songs and arrangements! LJ

This song was written for Rosanna arquette and peter Gabriel. Also wrote in you're eye's for her❤❤

Love this song. My favorite by them hands down. Oddly I've never seen the music video until now, so thank you for this. 🔥

Love it! Great reaction. Everyone raves about Africa but this song is the one for me. It has soooo much ear candy! Instrumentally it’s great! 👍🏼

Georgy Porky....is one of my favorites Toto's songs!!!

😂😂😂 when you saw the lady's foot wearing the sexy high heels.. WHOA! 😂😂

This song is musical excellence. Everything about it. That's the amazing Bobby Kimball on the higher vocals.

Who's this band you ask? Only a group of musicians that played on countless tunes throughout the 70s and 80s, and yes you've heard all those tracks. Does the album Thriller ring a bell?

6:35 When you imitate the rhythm guitar, you sound just like Drunk Uncle on SNL. LOL!

I was 32 when Rosannna was popular. So great to hear it after not hearing it for ahwile. Even better than I even remember ! Love the "20 years since she went away" harmony. Thanks for Reacting to it.

Musical masterclass right there.

With superstars like Jeff Porcaro( rip) on drums and Steve Lukather on lead guitar,you have a supergroup of harmony and musicians.

One of their best and named for actress Rosanna Arquette.

My Lord how could I have forgotten about Toto!!! I loved them mind you I am 65 but still hey woaw good choice great reaction

I saw the name Toto & the first song I thought of was Rosanna.

Been waiting for this reaction, one of the most solid tracks you can listen to. Everything is spot on.

Africa was another huge hit from Toto, but I see that you reacted to Africa a year ago.

Nearly all the dudes in Toto went to my rival high school. I went to Jeff Porcaro's house when I was a kid to listen to him bang the skins as I was often swimming at the neighbors house. I told him Peter Criss was better! 😂😂😂 RIP Jeff. ❤

My man Salvo G... I don't know how good your fan base is, but what I know for sure, they don't throw to you any crap and this has to be both beacause you have a good taste on music and while you are pleasent person, people won't want to troll you so you get just quite honest feedfack, but I would preciate in war situation an honest and reliable person as you any day of my life if that ever comes. Not all things nor anything else is granted in this life.

It is rumored that the song was written about actress Rosanna Arquette, who one of the band members was involved with for a time.

This is one of two songs written about the lovely Rosanna arquette obviously this one and then In your eyes by Peter Gabriel

Glad to see this song and band blew you away, as it should 😊. Now, before you let too much time pass with other songs and artists reactions, I would highly recommend you react to Toto’s first single which broke them to mainstream pop success and that song is “Hold The Line” which for me is part of what I refer to as Toto’s musical holy Trinity of Toto songs the Holy Trinity which along with the aforementioned “Hold The Line” includes this rock-groove masterpiece “Rosanna” and of course “Africa”. Really looking forward to seeing you experiencing and reacting to “Hold The Line”

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They wrote some pretty catchy songs

🇬🇧 Totally agree with everyone's comments asking you to try "Hold The Line" by Toto, & "Africa" 🎶🎼👌❤️

Toto put out some incredible tunes. The lady in Red is none other than Cynthia Rhodes aka "Penny" from Dirty Dancing.

Yep, this and Hold the Line are bangers! 🎸

what I realized after watching so many videos, they have the same of similar producers, both video and audio in a lot of the 80s and early 90s

Africa is my favorite pop/ Rock song! Rosanna is well done. Great group!

They were backing musicians for Boz Scaggs originally.

When u said “crazy arrangement” i was thinking lol just wait till that ending lead jam 🤟🤟🤟

The lead singer also sang for grown up Simba in the first Lion King ❤ Definitely one of the best voices of the 80's

This was freaking HUGE on the radio - and THEN that video hit MTV!

You know the music is great if it forces your eyes to close. 7:12 Looks like the moment you couldn’t help yourself. 😉

Brings back the golden years of my youth . Damn , do I miss that awesome time and music

This is by far my favorite Toto song. Everyone does "Africa", but very few do "Rosanna".

Really nice to hear from someone with musical knowledge. MAYBE... there should be a follow up video. (Since you suggested it) 😊

1982!!! PEOPLE!!!!

love it

Literally the studio band that recorded the whole Thriller album by Michael Jackson! They’ve been on a bunch of albums besides their own Toto stuff

Oh yes!!! 💌

The great Jeff Porcaro displays a master class on the drums with that shuffle. 🎤 drop

We all heard Steve Lukather on Beat It... all of these musicians were session artists. Absolutely the ultimate in each of their instruments. ❤ Toto is amazing!