This Song By Toto BLEW ME AWAY! *Rosanna* REACTION

[@karenglenn6707]

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!!

[@DavidF-y4t]

Oh there was *plenty* of crap at the time, it's just that the good stuff was *very good indeed*.

[@johnvetere]

Don't know about you 2 but I miss those days.

[@barbarino2000]

There has always been more crap songs than great songs. But the great songs persist over time.

[@StarryVelvetSky15]

Sturgeon's Law still applies even in the rosy colored past.

[@beverlykrebs4372]

​@@johnvetereIf I can find someone with a time machine I'm gone!!

[@normanmiller604]

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

[@lynnhaller1521]

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[@michellebarry1555]

I second this recommendation!

[@O_Towne_Bear]

yup, and "I'll Supply The Love"

[@missosmommy]

Absolutely!

[@omallory1969]

💯 🙌❤️🙌 Hold The Line

[@deniseriley6622]

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.

[@steverakes6182]

Very cool.

[@t0dd000]

How cool!

[@cyndiguillory320]

Early on, when they played locally, sometimes they would stop in Decks and Tapes in Sulphur where I worked. Star struck, I was.

[@tberreth33]

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

[@daveattheholdens]

The Rosanna Shuffle is the hill so many drummers die on. So hard to play smooth as Jeff did it - I certainly can't and I have been playing for a long time. I mean I can play it but I can't PLAY it if you know what I mean.

[@Crazychick64]

​@@daveattheholdensJeff invented it

[@Coowallsky]

It's an amalgamation of the Purdie Shuffle, Bonham Beat ("Fool in the Rain"), and Bo Diddley Beat.

[@BrendaNelson-ll4ls]

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

[@henkebenke573]

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

[@Crazychick64]

They played I won't hold you back at our senior prom

[@pax61]

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

[@henkebenke573]

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

[@rustyknyffe88]

We had the best music, the best parties, the best stereos, and the best fun of any generation. We would all have our car windows down and play these wonderful songs as loud as we could stand. We would sing along - we knew all the words. YOU MUST give "Hold The Line" a listen. You'll be spellbound.

[@kimgouge7120]

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.

[@jeffreyberry8643]

Love song called "99" by Toto

[@jellyrollnorton]

Me too.

[@PaintedCavern]

❤❤❤

[@richardpozyczka6047]

Love that one, and "mama"

[@ree1120]

My favorite toto song ❤️

[@tucorameriz3538]

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

[@reddoxx4754]

Plays in Ringo Starr's All Starr Band now.

[@TexasDonna-xu6fq]

My generation had the best music!!!

[@mikefetterman6782]

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.

[@jellyrollnorton]

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

[@Noelle0026]

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

[@LoisChisholm]

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.

[@redzone77p]

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.

[@Coowallsky]

Don't forget Jerry Hey, Jim Horn, and Gary Grant as well.

[@helenespaulding7562]

@@Coowallskywho’s the bassist? Fantastic playing!

[@brewswillis9783]

Also Mike on bass as the 3 Porcaro brothers (with Steve & Jeff P.) in the lineup at this time. RIP Mike and Jeff, sadly.

[@Coowallsky]

@@helenespaulding7562 David Hungate.

[@Coowallsky]

@@brewswillis9783 David Hungate played on this LP. He left after this LP and that’s when Mike took over on bass.

[@jodij6280]

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

[@Coowallsky]

It was a joke. "The song was written by David Paich, who has said that the song is based on numerous girls he had known. As a joke, the band members initially played along with the common assumption that the song was based on Rosanna Arquette, who was dating Toto keyboard player Steve Porcaro at the time. Arquette herself played along with the joke, commenting in an interview that the song was about "my showing up at 4 a.m., bringing them juice and beer at their sessions"

[@hfd413]

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.

[@markiv2942]

Yes, but this isn't average by any means. Absolutely insane professional production.

[@reno145]

One of the greatest songs ever written.

[@SpartyState82]

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

[@helenespaulding7562]

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.

[@ctidd]

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

[@chrissimon9879]

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

[@Coowallsky]

This song isn't about Roseanna Arquette..

[@gliblyaware]

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. ❤

[@eggy1962]

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

[@rcmorl6390]

"It not in the way that you care....or the things that you say that you do..." had to go hear that just now...

[@roi025]

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

[@danevans5823]

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

[@lisafolmar5321]

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

[@antarcticorb9197]

Top reaction!

[@LittleFrosty333]

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.

[@jellyrollnorton]

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.)

[@reddoxx4754]

And the guy in the red jacket is Patrick Swayze.

[@fabian4ever69]

Great Classic! I was in junior high when this was released (8th grade). I have always said that this song was like three different songs in one. Love it!

[@angelashepherd4429]

That's our GenX music!!! ❤❤❤

[@davidanderson6372]

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

[@sigilork785]

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

[@laurawolpert9601]

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". kzbin.info/www/bejne/iquskIicp6pgaLcsi=iBL9CE3Wcn8xqZNw

[@GeirBordalen]

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

[@waynem.7226]

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".

[@Pait728]

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

[@lindalee5866]

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

[@seansmith5826]

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).

[@letmadora28]

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. 😂

[@AnthonyT50]

What we wouldn't give to hear good new music like this again!

[@thomasp.3796]

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

[@Lovejazz01]

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 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@aricp9173]

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.

[@jackie_jrml]

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! 👍🏼

[@429_FL_Cub]

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

[@pitoraaijmaakers9733]

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..

[@paulopinheirosc]

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

[@markkauder1288]

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

[@pattaccone]

I’m a metalhead , slayer megadeth etc. as soon as I heard these guys I was hooked.

[@AmyW-qo4se]

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

[@Vegasshakenandstirred]

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

[@jamesmoffett526]

Mine too! Fortunately, I've seen the ban 13 times now, from 1985 to a couple weeks ago.

[@puffeiffer]

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

[@Natty0975]

This song was written for Roseanna Arquette. One of the band members was absolutely in love iwth her. The blonde dancer in the video is Cynthia Rhodes ... she played Penny in Dirty Dancing and ex wife of Richard Marx. Toto's biggest hit is " Africa ". Amazing song. 80's still rocks baby 🤘🤘🤘❤❤❤

[@EastDetroitMusic-Sirens3000A]

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.

[@JohnT-ii5od]

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

[@marie-christinescutt7888]

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

[@MuiGG]

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

[@angelvasmil]

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

[@SeaMark782]

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!

[@helenespaulding7562]

Was there something in the water in your neighborhood?? 😁. It’s like all those bands coming out of the Midlands in England.

[@helenespaulding7562]

And don’t forget Lukather on Thriller

[@SeaMark782]

@helenespaulding7562 My high school has a Wikipedia page, U.S. Grant High School. I forgot to mention Mickey Dolenz of the Monkees and the guitarist Michael Landau, too. I saw Tom Scott in Nov. and he said it was the water too, perhaps, like I told him, I always thought it was the drugs. Cheers!

[@helenespaulding7562]

Thanks, Lynn!! 😁

[@jeffknappwfgnationaltitle1175]

This has been one of my favorite bands through the 70's & 80's and their still going strong. I heard that the members of TOTO have performed on over 500 grammy nominated ablums

[@spikeysnack]

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

[@penguinsfan9192]

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

[@NoCanDu]

And songwriter!

[@tlucas9798]

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

[@monicadesanti7466]

Both simply perfect

[@cden409]

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

[@jaddison1112]

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.

[@Andrelour]

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

[@1Kent]

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

[@HRConsultant_Jeff]

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

[@lynnhaller1521]

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[@nyrocks5580]

Musical masterclass right there.

[@Lovejazz01]

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

[@justinwilton4603]

Patrick swayze is one of the dancers

[@billc.5861]

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

[@jollyrodgers7272]

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

[@robertwitcher3506]

Are you aware Toto was the backing band on Michael Jackson’s Thriller album!

[@jerrycote659]

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”

[@DeAnne1233]

Rosanna: played by Cynthia Rhodes; Dirty Dancing, Flashdance, Staying Alive as well as other music videos like The BeeGees and Richard Marx (spouse). She was a hell of a dancer. 💃

[@esther-sb9dp]

Man.. this song is gold. And loved your reaction to my song❤

[@hgbb16]

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

[@oceanbluebandflorida]

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

[@metalcubana3004]

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!

[@doughaviland1729]

Welcome to the soundtrack of my life! I may be old but I got to hear all the great bands!❤❤❤😂

[@lesanswau]

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

[@robertwalker1803]

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

[@snapdragon8888]

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

[@jeffjohnson9911]

Although it is Dave Hungate playing bass on the audio, the bass player appearing in the video is Mike Pocaro, brother of drummer Jeff Pocaro & keyboardist Steve Pocaro. He replaced Hungate after they recorded this album.

[@LunaJo67WDHTMJ]

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

[@lizodams]

Loved your reaction to this❤ Right from the start it did to you what it did to us, back in the day.😂

[@millisacrossen1327]

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

[@tonyjforder]

No, that was Joseph Williams who joined the band later.

[@basher5107]

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

[@the_vile_one.]

Yep, this and Hold the Line are bangers! 🎸

[@lynnhaller1521]

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[@avoncalling7886]

And Georgie Poorgi is a classic 70s cheese, but such a catchy tune! Love this group - just fanatic musicians/artists! ❤💜

[@jamesanthony5257]

When this song was being recorded, everything after 8:46 here was improvised when David Paich just continued playing and the rest joined in. At the end of Steve's final guitar solo, the band looked into the studio control booth and someone said, "I hope you got that". The Bassist in the video is Mike Pocaro (RIP) as David Hungate had left the band and moved to Nashville.

[@kimcutts6153]

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

[@jackschleich9475]

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

[@peterokeeffe8307]

Toto are just the perfect band that can play any type of music. I love them. Delve even deeper and you won't be disappointed. One of my favourites was not a huge hit - 'I Will Remember'.