Month: December 2017

If Wishes Came True by Sweet Sensation

Power ballads have been around for decades.  Some of the best known songs of all time could fall into that category.  (“Stairway to Heaven”, anyone?)  Quite honestly, most of the songs that would be classified as power ballads would be most at home on classic rock stations, and there are many that still get lots of airplay.  With that said, there have been power ballads from groups whose music was of a different type entirely.  Could you, for example, picture a power ballad from a group best known for freestyle dance music?

Enter Sweet Sensation.

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I Wouldn’t Want To Be Like You by The Alan Parsons Project

In the late 1970s, disco ruled the airwaves.*  Some artists, such as the Bee Gees, made a full-blown dive into the genre., while others made occasional forays into the field.  And as the disco craze went on, even artists who many people might not have pictured doing so went and made disco records.  Remember disco hits from Cher, KISS, and others?  Well, if you don’t, that’s what this webpage is for.

With all that said, if you hadn’t previously heard today’s spotlighted hit, could you have pictured a song with a disco sound coming from the progressive rock group The Alan Parsons Project?

Yeah, me neither.  But it happened.  And it was glorious.

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