And I’m going to derail my story for just a second in order to talk about Lyons & Clark, because I love this album to death. A very expensive-looking production, by Tom Scott. Two new artists, neither of which I’ve ever heard of, both on Shelter (the label originally started by Leon Russell, distributed by ABC, for you trainspotters.) One of them was a female duo called Lyons & Clark. It’s about 3PM and I’m on my way home for the weekend, just stopped in to check the mail first. A small box from ABC records, with two LPs inside. New releases from record companies do not usually arrive at the radio station the day before a holiday weekend, and that’s one of the reasons I remember this so clearly. Not just a campus radio station, but a powerful 50,000-watt major-market non-commercial entity. I was the Music Director at WFUV, Fordham University NYC’s student-run (at the time) FM station. The name was pretty well-known ‘round these parts. Their classic, Hell-less lineup was in place by early 1976, and had been gigging for the better part of a year. It had been almost a year-and-a-half since a certain NYC “supergroup” headed by Johnny Thunders and Richard Hell had made its first splash. It was the day before Thanksgiving, 1976. Temptation to get all flowery and erudite and even mansplainy.īut I do have a couple of interesting stories, I think, so here goes.įor me, it did not begin auspiciously. Some brilliantly eloquent ones, some that don’t say much but obviously come straight from the heart, and also many pithy observations like “saw him at nasaau colasium 81 good show” – and you wonder if you should even bother, because of the sheer weight of redundancy. Heartfelt tribute after heartfelt tribute. MIKE FORNATALE remembers a true American giant
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