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| From | Gregory Sager <hochsalzburg@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Benny Mardones |
| Date | Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:52:05 -0700 (PDT) |
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> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:53:31 -0400
> From: "Holmes Online" <bholmes_fm@msn.com>
> To: <audities@smoe.org>
> Subject: Re: I dropped everything to buy album XXX
> Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP688AFB83EFBB4DABF7766E3250@phx.gbl>
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> I'm surprised that Greg and Carl remember anything from
> Syracuse radio from
> that time that didn't involve Benny Mardones being shoved
> down their
> throats.
Yeah, Syracuse radio really pushed Benny Mardones back around that time. I think that central New York and his home turf in New Jersey were about the only places in the country where he got airplay around the time of his first album, *Never Run, Never Hide*, although "Into the Night" certainly made him a coast-to-coast cult artist in the next decade.
I didn't mind 95X's Mardones-mania too much, since *Never Run, Never Hide* wasn't that bad an album. It was certainly a lot rockier than his later stuff, particularly the song that got the most airplay, "Might've Been Love". Later on, thanks to "Into the Night", he turned into a bathetic minor-league Michael Bolton. And, IMO, the only thing worse than Michael Bolton is a minor-league Michael Bolton.
(At least Mardones had the virtue of enlisting the criminally-underappreciated D.L. Byron as his songwriter for a spell. Speaking of great lost power pop albums, Byron's *This Day and Age* has to be in the first rank. I sure wish that Arista or someone else had later released it on CD, especially since my vinyl copy disappeared at some point over the past thirty years.)
Gregory Sager
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