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dEFROG ON 45 #45: RUNNING WILD AND LOOKING PRETTY
This is the 45th installment of my ongoing series about the 45rpm records I grew up on. And I don’t remember why, but at the time I started this, I always knew which record I was going to choose for the 45th post.
It just had to be Nick Gilder.
I don’t know why, but it just makes sense. Maybe it’s because – at least in the US – I consider Gilder to be the poster child for one-hit wonders in the 70s (though really, there are plenty of other candidates). Or maybe it just seems like Gilder sold a lot more copies of this song than copies of the actual album it came from.
I don’t have the numbers to back that up. But on a purely unscientific basis, I’ve met plenty of people who owned this 45, but not a single person who owned the album.
Which is unfair, I know. Gilder was actually a reasonably successful songwriter in his prime. Scandal’s “The Warrior”? He co-wrote that, you know.
Still.
As for the song … well, it’s funny how what sounded sultry and slinky when you were 13 sounds a bit cornball 35 years later. Still, I think it’s withstood the test of time reasonably well.
Danger in the shape of something wild,
This is dF
It just had to be Nick Gilder.
I don’t know why, but it just makes sense. Maybe it’s because – at least in the US – I consider Gilder to be the poster child for one-hit wonders in the 70s (though really, there are plenty of other candidates). Or maybe it just seems like Gilder sold a lot more copies of this song than copies of the actual album it came from.
I don’t have the numbers to back that up. But on a purely unscientific basis, I’ve met plenty of people who owned this 45, but not a single person who owned the album.
Which is unfair, I know. Gilder was actually a reasonably successful songwriter in his prime. Scandal’s “The Warrior”? He co-wrote that, you know.
Still.
As for the song … well, it’s funny how what sounded sultry and slinky when you were 13 sounds a bit cornball 35 years later. Still, I think it’s withstood the test of time reasonably well.
Danger in the shape of something wild,
This is dF