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defrogTime to get back on track with this series.
If you’ve followed this long enough, you know I have a lot of one-hit wonders in the 45 library.
Gary Wright is not one of them. He was a two-hit wonder. But then I’ve only got one of those two hits on 45, so close enough.
This is the one I have.
This is the one I don’t have (not on 45, anyway – I did have it via a K-Tel comp, I think, so it doesn’t count towards this series).
Wright was, of course, formerly with Spooky Tooth, which I didn’t know at the time. And it probably wouldn’t have mattered if I did because Spooky Tooth weren’t all that big in the US when they were active, and I didn’t know who they were in the mid-70s when these two songs came out.
Anyway, I still kind of like both songs, but “Love Is Alive” is the stronger of the two, thanks to that hard-hitting bass line and the delay effects on the guitar. (I like me some echo.) And it does kind of rock. Listening to it now, it gets by more on nostalgia, perhaps but I still like it.
It’s all clear to me now,
This is dF
If you’ve followed this long enough, you know I have a lot of one-hit wonders in the 45 library.
Gary Wright is not one of them. He was a two-hit wonder. But then I’ve only got one of those two hits on 45, so close enough.
This is the one I have.
This is the one I don’t have (not on 45, anyway – I did have it via a K-Tel comp, I think, so it doesn’t count towards this series).
Wright was, of course, formerly with Spooky Tooth, which I didn’t know at the time. And it probably wouldn’t have mattered if I did because Spooky Tooth weren’t all that big in the US when they were active, and I didn’t know who they were in the mid-70s when these two songs came out.
Anyway, I still kind of like both songs, but “Love Is Alive” is the stronger of the two, thanks to that hard-hitting bass line and the delay effects on the guitar. (I like me some echo.) And it does kind of rock. Listening to it now, it gets by more on nostalgia, perhaps but I still like it.
It’s all clear to me now,
This is dF
