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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: Comments on recent posts |
| Date | Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:08:53 -0500 |
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> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:24:06 -0400 (EDT)
> From: moteeko@telerama.com
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Comments on recents posts...
> Message-ID: <1056425046.3ef7c456d030f@webmail.telerama.com>
>
> Looking Glass: There's a cut on Rhino's "Have A Nice Day" set by the
> Looking
> Glass called "Jimmy Loves Maryanne" that I really like. Maybe it was a hit
>
> elsewhere, but ya didn't hear that one on WLOF back in the day.
>
The Looking Glass version of "Jimmy Loves Maryanne" suffers from a
rather phlegmatic vocal by Eliot Lurie and a too-slow tempo. Josie Cotton's
1984 cover of the song has a lot more pep.
> Starz: Yeah...bubblegum with an edge. And what lyrics...I'd have to check
> the LP
> in the vinyl vaults upstairs, I think the song was called "Cool One"...heh
>
> heh...I lost it all in the popcorn box...yeesh!
>
"Cool One" is from *Violation*, their second album. Starz was a
perennial arena opening act in the late seventies that played an early
version of what would later be known as pop-metal, although they
demonstrated as much as anybody else that the difference between power pop
and pop-metal often has a lot more to do with presentation than with the
music itself. I still have my old vinyl copy of *Violation*; it's not that
great of an album, although their final two albums before they called it
quits, *Attention Shoppers!* and *Coliseum Rock*, are both pretty good. I
keep fruitlessly searching for them in used-vinyl bins. Two songs off of
*Coliseum Rock*, "So Young, So Bad" and "Last Night I Wrote a Letter*, both
very catchy rockers, got a little airplay in Syracuse back in the day, but
by and large Starz came and went without ever making much of a dent in the
charts. I remember Starz getting most of its attention from the fact that
lead singer Michael Lee Smith (older brother of Reagan-era teenybopper idol
Rex Smith) was yet another member of the Tyler/Johanson School of Mick
Jagger Lookalikes.
Gregory Sager
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