Here are three songs that just happened to play sequentially on my iPod today, three of my faves from the 70's:
"Feelin' Stronger Everyday" by Chicago.
"We're All Alone" by Rita Coolidge
"Fooled Around And Fell In Love" by Elvin Bishop. Vocals by Mickey Thomas, later lead singer of Starship. I could not find a good performance clip, but I did run across this one with Jason and Sam from "General Hospital". Good stuff.
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Songs of the Weekend
Here are a couple of songs that have been with me all weekend.
Our first is "Magnet and Steel" by Walter Egan, a minor hit in the late 70's notable for the involvement of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac. Buckingham and Nicks were hot off the success of "Rumors" when they helped with this song: Buckingham playing guitar and producing and both Buckingham and Nicks providing the backing vocals.
Try to disregard the similarity in appearance between Walter Egan and Sam Kinison in "Back to School":
Our next song is "Too Hot to Stop" by Benjamin Orr from his solo album, "The Lace". Orr was the bass player for The Cars and the lead singer on some of their biggest hits: "Just What I Needed", "Let's Go" and "Drive". While his solo album had some hits of note, namely "Stay the Night", I always felt that "Too Hot to Stop" was overlooked and underappreciated. Like many musicians who have spent their entire career with an instrument, Orr seems uncomfortable without a bass guitar, but it's a good 80's video. No plot, no story, an odd futuristic set and an audience full of space babes. By the way, that is Cars keyboard player Greg Hawkes in the band.
Our first is "Magnet and Steel" by Walter Egan, a minor hit in the late 70's notable for the involvement of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac. Buckingham and Nicks were hot off the success of "Rumors" when they helped with this song: Buckingham playing guitar and producing and both Buckingham and Nicks providing the backing vocals.
Try to disregard the similarity in appearance between Walter Egan and Sam Kinison in "Back to School":
Our next song is "Too Hot to Stop" by Benjamin Orr from his solo album, "The Lace". Orr was the bass player for The Cars and the lead singer on some of their biggest hits: "Just What I Needed", "Let's Go" and "Drive". While his solo album had some hits of note, namely "Stay the Night", I always felt that "Too Hot to Stop" was overlooked and underappreciated. Like many musicians who have spent their entire career with an instrument, Orr seems uncomfortable without a bass guitar, but it's a good 80's video. No plot, no story, an odd futuristic set and an audience full of space babes. By the way, that is Cars keyboard player Greg Hawkes in the band.
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