Buckner & Garcia - Pac-Man Fever

Buckner & Garcia - Pac-Man Fever
(Columbia-CBS Records 1981)
(Note: This Is The Original Hit Single Version)
(Pac-Man Fever is a hit single by Buckner & Garcia. Capitalizing on the video game craze of the early 1980s, the song, about the classic video game Pac-Man, peaked at number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States in March 1982)
(Buckner and Garcia were in the Atlanta area in 1981, recording TV jingles and other low-profile studio work. They were eating at a restaurant down the road in Marietta, and they saw other diners swarming around a brand new Pac-Man machine. The duo had never heard of the game before, but they waited their turn and played it too, and ended up playing for two hours straight. After that, they decided to write a novelty song about the game. Their manager shopped the song at radio stations nationwide, but no one wanted to play it. However, when they shopped it locally, WSTR (FM) in Atlanta decided to play it for fun on their show one morning. The station was bombarded with calls from listeners who begged to hear it again and again. This got the attention of CBS Records as well as other stations across the country, and the single hit #9 on the US Billboard charts in 1982)
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