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Songfacts: If you did, you would have been there during the shootings.īuckner: Yes, we had friends that were there that were caught in the middle of that thing. Songfacts: Did you ever go to Kent State?īuckner: No, I didn't go to Kent State. Songfacts: Did you head off to college at that point?īuckner: No, I was going to go to Kent State and then I was playing in a band at the time, making good money and having a great time, so I said, 'Hey, I'm just going to keep doing this.' I think Gary went to Akron University for maybe a semester but that was the extent of our education following high school. Jerry Buckner: Gary and I both graduated together in 1966. Carl Wiser (Songfacts): When did you graduate from high school, Jerry? In this talk with Jerry Buckner, he tells the 'Pac-Man Fever' story and recounts some of their non-Pac projects, including the WKRP in Cincinnati theme song.

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When the song took off, their label insisted on a full album of video game songs, and the duo delivered with tracks like 'Do The Donkey Kong' and 'Froggy's Lament.' It put their rock aspirations in a coffin, but gave them the video game niche, which they've owned ever since (a Buckner & Garcia track appears in Wreck-It Ralph). It's a nifty pop tune by the team of Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia, rockers from Akron, Ohio (home of Pere Ubu, The Black Keys and Lebron James), who earned a living writing jingles. 'Pac-Man Fever' rose to #9 on the Hot 100 in March 1982, the only hit song about a video game ever recorded. You could find Pac-Man at the arcade, the pizza place, the deli or the local dive. There was a time when the most popular video game in America was played with one joystick.

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