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Post by Richard W on Mar 13, 2014 14:57:02 GMT -5
Heard this on the radio yesterday.
Can't say I've ever been a fan of this song -- it always struck my ear as hyperactive and that eight count "da-da-da-DA!" bridge is really irritating -- but, if I'm not mistaken, that's Linda singing backup vocals, perhaps the shortest backup vocal ever: "she's so much younger than you." Six words!
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Post by sliderocker on Mar 15, 2014 0:22:52 GMT -5
It's Linda on backing vocals, which I didn't know at the time the song was a hit. I wasn't a fan of the originally but I've grown to like it over the years. It's much better than "Thank You For Being A Friend," which I didn't warm to either, especially when it was used as the them for the "Golden Girls." When Andrew passed away, his obit was headlined as '"Golden Girls" Songwriter Passes Away.' All because of TYFBAF, which actually was several years old at the time it was used in the series and it wasn't even Andrew singing his own hit. Andrew deserved better than that but at least his passing was mentioned in the news media, even though he had been out of the limelight for quite some time.
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Post by Sloan on Apr 30, 2015 14:03:09 GMT -5
Was not a big fan of this song at first but like it a lot now.
What I find interesting in this song is the beginning. The piano riff starts off sounding as if it was rooted on the downbeat but in actuality, it's on the upbeat. That's why it sounds so awkward. However, it is genius! Still sounds tricky to find out when Andrew would start singing though.
(Clarification of terms: downbeat is usually the accented beat of the measure, particularly the first beat of the measure. Like 1-2-3-4 in a 4/4 time signature. The upbeat is the unaccented part of the beat: 1-AND-2-AND-3-AND-4-AND. However, here Andrew Gold reverses it and the upbeats are heavily accented therefore making it sounds like the downbeat. So the very first note heard is the AND of 1 and not 1. That's why it sounds so deceiving.)
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Post by Jay on May 5, 2015 17:20:36 GMT -5
HASTEN DOWN THE WIND and WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?, the Andrew Gold album that features "Lonely Boy," were recorded simultaneously by the same crew.
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