Category: Yacht Rock

Talk about the group Pablo Cruise, and one of two things will typically happen:  either someone who listened to top 40 radio in the late 70s will remember about two songs; or someone will ask who you’re talking about.  If you’re reading this blog, you’ll probably remember the two biggest hits from Pablo Cruise.  However, that group had a few more hits besides that.  One of them was not a big hit, but “Don’t Want to Live Without It” did crack the top 30.

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If you listened to top 40 or MOR radio in 1977 and 1978, it wouldn’t be long before you found an artist who had some amount of success thanks to the Bee Gees.  One of the most fortunate recipients of the Gibb brothers’ largesse was Australian singer Samantha Sang, who had a platinum hit single thanks to them.  Her follow-up to that song, though, didn’t have the same traction on the charts.  I guess that’s why I’m writing today about “You Keep Me Dancing” on this page.

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If someone mentions yacht rock, undoubtedly one of the first people to come to mind for lovers of that subgenre would be Christopher Cross.   I would argue that it was in 1980, when his debut album hit the top 10, that yacht rock hit its peak.  And why not?  Not everyone had signed on to the waning disco fad, and certainly not everyone was listening to new wave music.  Yacht rock filled a void, and Christopher Cross was there to help fill it.

Yet now, almost four decades later, while other music from that time still gets radio airplay, Mr. Cross’s music has seemingly disappeared.  When, for example, was the last time you heard his #1 AC hit “Never Be the Same”?

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Dr. Hook is one of those 1970s groups that a lot of people know by name.  I would imagine, though, that most people don’t remember many, if any, of Dr. Hook’s hits (and they had several).  It’s interesting, though, that a group which had top 20 hits in five out of ten years of the 70s is so easily forgotten.  And, surprisingly enough, one of those forgotten hits was one of the group’s highest charting.

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When asked about Leo Sayer, I would guess that most people would either respond with “Who?” or possibly remember one or two songs of his…or the fact that he once appeared on the Muppet Show.  I personally remember him for three songs.  Two of them, “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing” and “When I Need You”, were mainstays on middle-of-the-road radio in my hometown for years.  The third, Mr. Sayer’s 1980 remake of “More Than I Can Say”, was popular after I was old enough to pay attention to what songs were popular at the time.

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