Posted on 03/23/2017 10:15:10 AM PDT by simpson96
Hope you enjoy. ”Everytime I Think Of You”
Music *ping*
Nice!
Acknowledging it’s kind of pop/bubble-gum music... I think ‘Head First’ is a great song. As is Midnight Rendezvous, Back on My Feet Again.
Efficient songwriting. Not gimicky. Excellent orchestration. Not overdone, and complements the lead tenor. My other Baby favorite would be ‘Isn’t it Time?”,
with the female choir accompaniment.
To produce music so slick and polished, I get the feeling the Babys already had a lot of experience before they banded together.
Sometimes you get very professional stage performers or session musicians who act as Free Agents, and drift from one group of friends to another in between solo projects. Neil Young was that way as was Joe Walsh who was part of the Eagles for a while. Eric Clapton was part of Spirit for a while. Eric Carmen developed his talents as lead singer for the Raspberries. Chaka Khan started with Rufus, but quickly became in demand by other artists for her well known background screams.
The Babys, one of my absolute favorite bands back in the day.
I saw them open for Rush in the late 70s. What a mismatch.
To produce music so slick and polished, I get the feeling the Babys already had a lot of experience before they banded together.
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IIRC, their label, Chrysalis, put a lot of money into them. They didn’t write this song or Isn’t It Time. And I think Waite is trying to look like Bowie, too. Anything for a buck, but I can’t blame them for that. I like their two big songs provided I don’t have to listen to them often.
Don’t get me wrong, loved the song. But why is it that singers often have to be such poofters? This guy looks/acts like he wants to be a girl.
Good song-and live, not lip-synched.
The Babys
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Babys are a British rock group best known for their songs “Isn’t It Time” and “Every Time I Think of You”. Both songs were composed by Jack Conrad and Ray Kennedy, and each reached No. 13 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and No. 8 on the Cashbox chart in the late 1970s. The 1976–1978 Babys line-up consisted of keyboardist/guitarist Michael Corby, vocalist/bassist John Waite, drummer Tony Brock and guitarist Wally Stocker.
The group signed a contract that was the highest ever for a new music act at the time. Two studio albums, The Babys and Broken Heart went without incident and were well received. However, when recording Head First in August 1978, Michael Corby was replaced by Jonathan Cain as keyboardist and Ricky Phillips took over as bassist. From 1979 until the breakup in 1981, The Babys line-up consisted of vocalist Waite, drummer Brock, bassist Phillips, guitarist Stocker, and keyboardist Cain.
In 1977 they purchased a 24 track mobile unit with which to record their music. They went to a ranch house in the Malibu mountains and put down the tracks in six weeks. The influences of the songs came about from their first year in Los Angeles and the culture shock of their relocation there.
Millar ultimately deciding on “The Babys”.
In a 1979 Hit Parader magazine interview, Waite stated,
“The name was meant to be a joke. We took the name simply because the record companies wouldn’t listen to any bands they thought were rock & roll. I mean, they wanted sure-fire teen bands, pre-teen bands. We couldn’t get anybody down to hear us to get a record deal, so we called ourselves The Babys. We thought we’d keep the name just for two weeks. Then, the word got around in London that there was a band playing rock & roll called The Babys and it seemed so off the wall, so completely crazy, that it was worth taking a shot with. It really appealed to everyone’s sense of humor.”[3]
I too like “Head First”. For years I didn’t know who did it, and I thought it was an obscure Tom Petty piece.
One of my very first favorite bands when I started listening to music. About this time the 8 track tapes was on its last legs and I could buy them at Woolworths for $1 each and I bought up as many as my paper route money allowed.
Ha! I saw them open for Alice Cooper in the late 70’s and always thought the same thing. Hehehehe...
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