RIP Gary Wright musician
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It seems his voice hung in there pretty good considering his age.
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I can't think of how many times I played/listened to Dream Weaver and My Love Is Alive over the years. Thanks for the music. RIP
Yeah. Even if a band, or musician has only two great songs that makes them great in my book.
Gary Wright is a prime example. Another would be Gerry Rafferty with Baker Street and Right Down The Line or Kansas with Carry On Wayward Son and Dust In The Wind.
Can't stand it when songs are edited though. I want the long version.
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Gerry Rafferty was a member of a group called Stealers Wheel, which only had three albums. The only song I can recall from them is this one:
Yeah, not too crazy about that tune. Cannot really comment on their other material as I probably have not heard any of it.
Sorry to interrupt, but I always thought Harry Nilsson wrote "I can't live" but to my amazement it was Pete Ham from Bad finger. Who hung himself a couple of years before the other founding member of the band hung himself. They got completely screwed by their American manager who stole every penny from them and kept them in poverty in spite of writing a series of smash hits. That one song should have kept them in clover for a lifetime just upon airplay. Makes you wonder what went wrong. They were the first group to be signed by Apple Records. Paul McCartney wrote " If you want it" for the film Magic Christian. Big hit. Surprising the Beatles let them get so royally screwed.
Even as a kid, at the end of a hard day, I found refuge in my bed. It was a welcome escape.
When I heard Dream Weaver, it absolutely resonated with me:
I've just closed my eyes again
Climbed aboard the dream weaver train
Driver take away my worries of today
And leave tomorrow behind
Love this song.
When I heard Dream Weaver, it absolutely resonated with me:
I've just closed my eyes again
Climbed aboard the dream weaver train
Driver take away my worries of today
And leave tomorrow behind
Love this song.
That song written by McCartney is actually called "come and get it". I recall it was used in a big tv ad campaign years ago but I forget the product.
Harry Nillsson's other big hit, named "everybody's talking at me" from the movie Midnight Cowboy, was also written by someone else. I find it odd his two biggest hits were written by other people considering the reputation he had as a songwriter.
Never saw the movie Magic Christian. but I looked it up and was surprissed by all the big names in the cast. Impressive.
My favourite song by Harry Nilsson were, Everybody's Talking featured in the great movie Midnight Cowboy with Dustin Hoffman and John Voight, (my all-time greatest movie) and the hilarious recording IM A Rider On The Range.
Never liked this one but ruined anyway by association with the cop getting his ear sliced off with a straight razor in Reservoir Dogs.
The original lyric was:
"Fly me away to the dark side of the moon
Meet me on the other side "
and changed to
"Fly me away to the bright side of the moon
Meet me on the other side"
The original made more sense however another band of the time used the same line.
A classic.
RIP Gary Wright
Love is alive.
I was 14, in Quebec, part of an exchange group, we were on a boat in the St. Lawrence, they played this song, all the French girls started dancing...
Bell bottoms, long hair, ........
I learned that day what truly sexy was.
I was 14, in Quebec, part of an exchange group, we were on a boat in the St. Lawrence, they played this song, all the French girls started dancing...
Bell bottoms, long hair, ........
I learned that day what truly sexy was.
I recall that tune on the radio a lot at De La Salle Camp on Lake Simcoe. The camp is no longer there. I think it is a park now.
Unfortunately, it was almost all boys except for the hobbie craft girls who if memory serves were hot and maybe the odd councillors .
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