The song Dark Night by The Blasters

The Blasters

The Blasters are a rock and roll music group formed in 1979 in Downey, California, by brothers Phil Alvin and Dave Alvin , with bass guitarist John Bazz and drummer Bill Bateman. Phil Alvin explained the origin of the band's name: "I thought Joe Turner’s backup band on Atlantic records – I had...

 was first featured on the 1985

1985 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1985.-January–March:*January 1 - The newest music video channel, VH-1, debuts on American cable. It is aimed at an older demographic than its sister station, MTV...

 album Hard Line

Hard Line

Hard Line is a 1985 album by the American band The Blasters.-Track listing:All track written by Dave Alvin unless otherwise noted.#"Trouble Bound" #"Just Another Sunday" #"Hey, Girl" #"Dark Night"#"Little Honey"...

. The earliest offerings of the song in popular culture can be found the 1985 episode Whatever Works in season 2 of the TV crime drama Miami Vice

Miami Vice

Miami Vice is an American television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The series starred Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. It ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984–1989...

. It experienced a resurgence in popularity after being prominently featured in the 1996

1996 in film

Major releases this year included Scream, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.-Events:...

 Robert Rodriguez

Robert Rodriguez

Robert Anthony Rodríguez is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in his native Texas and Mexico. He has directed such films as Desperado, From Dusk till Dawn, The Faculty, Spy Kids, Sin City, Planet...

/Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...

 film From Dusk Till Dawn

From Dusk Till Dawn

From Dusk till Dawn is a 1996 horror film directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino. The movie stars Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino and Juliette Lewis.-Plot:...

as the opening and closing song. It also featured as the main theme in the 2005 hit motion picture, Dark Night

Dark Night (film)

Dark Night is a 2006 award winning B movie by writer/director Daniel Grant.The film stars Vaughn Stein, Isabella Maidment, Stephen Mcleod and Anthony Noble. It was filmed in 2005 and finally completed post-production in the closing months of 2006...

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