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| From | "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com> |
| Subject | Re: Anyone know Tycoon? |
| Date | Mon, 24 May 2004 00:53:31 -0500 |
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Tycoon was Arista's answer to Foriegner. I have the first album and it goes
from AOR pop-rock to AC pop ala Pablo Cruise. I believe one of the members was
formerly in the band Rhinoceros that recorded several albums for Elektra (that
I never bought). Thats all I remember about them.
.
Billy
At 02:35 PM 5/23/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>>Does anyone know the band Tycoon from the late '70's/early '80's. Evidently
>they had a hit single in '79 called "Such a Woman." Anyway, a friend of mine
>(Jon Gordon who later played with Suzanne Vega on "Luka" and such) was in
>this band and I just ordered a re-issue CD on amazon. Supposedly Clive
>Davis soured on the band - they were on Arista - and doomed them to
>extinction.
>
>
>That's a nice little poppish song.
>You've made me want to pull it out and listen, but there are two crates of
>recently-acquired garage sale LPs in the way.
>k
>
Billy G. Spradlin
http://listen.to/jangleradio
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