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| From | "Jim \"synchro1\" W" <synchro1@gmail.com> |
| Subject | D l Byron, was Re: Benny Mardones |
| Date | Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:33:58 -0700 |
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*(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.)*
I have a CD copy of This Day & Age dated 2009 on AmericanMeat Records/Sony
Music, it's available an amazon. I bought it right after a very passionate
review posted on this mail group last winter.
*
*
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Gregory Sager <hochsalzburg@yahoo.com>wrote:
> > 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>
> >
> > 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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