Turning and returning to some secret place inside. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "TAKE MY BREATH AWAY")īERLIN: (Singing) On this endless ocean, finally, lovers know no shame. (Singing) Watching every motion in this foolish lover's game. So I took the - his melodies and made them longer.
I'm listening to this going, I'm not getting a buzz from this. The demo kind of went (singing) watching every motion in this foolish lover's game. TERRI NUNN: The original song didn't work for me as a romantic song. One of them was Terri Nunn from the band Berlin. Moroder and Whitlock wrote a melancholy slow-jam and had a few different female vocalists try it out. GREIVING: The other big song in "Top Gun" was a love ballad for Maverick and his flight instructor, played by Kelly McGillis. LOGGINS: (Singing) Highway to the Danger Zone. We'll see how that holds through in "Maverick." It must be working because Tom wouldn't leave it in if it wasn't. But on the other hand, years later when I brought it back into my show, it had achieved an iconic status that I didn't see coming. LOGGINS: It almost got stuck to that first Gulf War. There were pros and cons about it being so huge. GREIVING: "Danger Zone" took off - not just in the movie, but it became a No.
LOGGINS: She was very aggressive for an R&B singer that had moved over into a rock 'n' roll direction. At the last minute, Kenny Loggins was invited to sing the macho opening number, and he took inspiration for the vocal from a surprising source - Tina Turner. GREIVING: Moroder wrote "Danger Zone" with lyricist Tom Whitlock, who just prior had been Moroder's gofer who looked after his Ferrari. GREIVING: Most of the film's songs had already been written by Simpson and Bruckheimer's go-to composer Giorgio Moroder, the disco king who ruled Hollywood in the early '80s with songs like this. LOGGINS: (Singing) Playing, playing with the boys. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "PLAYING WITH THE BOYS") But when the volleyball scene came on, I said, we're going to write for this no one else is going to write for this scene. LOGGINS: And I think everybody was excited about that opening scene with the planes going off the aircraft carrier. "Top Gun" producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson had developed a very successful formula - commissioning hit songs paired with MTV-style filmmaking, most recently at the time in "Flashdance." Every pop artist in town wanted to take their next ride. GREIVING: Kenny Loggins was invited to a cattle call for singers and songwriters at a screening room on the Paramount lot in 1986. It conjures up memories of younger days for all of us. (SOUNDBITE OF KENNY LOGGINS SONG, "DANGER ZONE") Then the jets take off and push the throttle forward into the danger zone. TIM GREIVING, BYLINE: The new "Top Gun: Maverick" opens the exact same way as the old "Top Gun." Fighter jets line up on an aircraft carrier, accompanied by the tolling of synthesized bells and an accelerating pop heartbeat by composer Harold Faltermeyer. Tim Greiving reports on the classic soundtrack. I'm avoiding singing it, but it's in your head. Tom Cruise made a sequel to "Top Gun." And you know where that leads - the danger zone.
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