Friday Night Music

[lrrps21]

We're staying in this evening, so I'm listening to some tunes. Starting out with Little River Band.

[ScarletHayes]

There was that weird time period in rock/pop of a sort of no man's land.  Classic Rock waned, Disco was becoming played out, and you sort of had these acts like Al Stewart, Dr Hook, Quarter Flash, Gerry Rafferty, LRB, etc... Paul McCartney was singing tunes like A Little Luck, George Harrison had Blow Away and John Lennon had Woman, etc...   It was like 1979 through 1981.  A little 3 year run of light rock because the country had had enough of everything else for a while.  The LRB was practically the poster child of that era.

[lrrps21]

There was that weird time period in rock/pop of a sort of no man's land.  Classic Rock waned, Disco was becoming played out, and you sort of had these acts like Al Stewart, Dr Hook, Quarter Flash, LRB, etc... Paul McCartney was singing tunes like A Little Luck, George Harrison had Blow Away and John Lennon had Woman, etc...   It was like 1979 through 1981.  A little 3 year run of light rock because the country had had enough of everything else for a while.  The LRB was practically the poster child of that era.

I know people who have never heard of Little River Band but know their songs. My cousin being one. She always texts to ask me the name of the band that sings .

[ScarletHayes]

A one hit wonder from that era.

[lrrps21]

A one hit wonder from that era.

I remember this tune.

[ScarletHayes]

I know people who have never heard of Little River Band but know their songs. My cousin being one. She always texts to ask me the name of the band that sings .

Can't bring up LRB without Lonesome Loser.  

[ScarletHayes]

When I was a 10--11 year old kid and I'd hear this on CKLW (800 AM), I just assumed this was a black man singing this song.  This reveal years later was a huge shocker to me.   I had heard of Dr Hook as a kid---as who can forget On the Cover of the Rolling Stone?  But I guess my brain just filed this song away as NOT Dr Hook.     This singer was not what I envisioned at all.

[ScarletHayes]

Sticking with that era.

[lrrps21]

When I was a 10--11 year old kid and I'd hear this on CKLW (800 AM), I just assumed this was a black man singing this song.  This reveal years later was a huge shocker to me.   I had heard of Dr Hook as a kid---as who can forget On the Cover of the Rolling Stone?  But I guess my brain just filed this song away as NOT Dr Hook.     This singer was not what I envisioned at all.

Well, we're big rock singers
We got golden fingers
And we're loved everywhere we go (that sounds like us)

Wild Cherry had the same affect.

Dancin' and singin' and movin' to the groovin'
And just when it hit me somebody turned around and shouted
Play that funky music white boy

[lrrps21]

Sticking with that era.

[lrrps21]

Sticking with that era.

Tail end.

[ScarletHayes]

All I can think about when I hear that Exile tune is Happy Gilmore when he trashes his girlfriend over the intercom and then grovels.  Rinse.  Repeat.  

[ScarletHayes]

More from that era.  Still love this tune.  Read the lyrics.       

[lrrps21]

All I can think about when I hear that Exile tune is Happy Gilmore when he trashes his girlfriend over the intercom and then grovels.  Rinse.  Repeat.  

[ScarletHayes]

I brought it up.  I might as well put it up.