Albert Hammond, in 2017, singing his biggest (maybe only) hit, It Never Rains in Southern California (released in 1972). His voice is still good at age 73. So many Boomers clapping double time. ( begins at ~ :30)
This morning over some serious coffee drinking, I tried listening to the news and for all practical purposes, there was none. Oh, as always there were some quips in the political arena and yeah, something about the virus going rampant but nothing else. No gang related deaths in Chicago or New York, no foreign wars, no protests either peaceful or riotous, no bank robberies or even major wrecks. Nothing. No rape, no murder, no overdoses, no nada. Not even an earthquake. All that started me thinking that there was a song out there that reflected today’s news and yup, it was Anne Murray with.....
The last couple of days I’ve been listening to a lot of Johnny Mathis. Yep, he’s still alive at 85! Everyone has heard his recordings but here’s one I never heard until last night. Johnny One Note. It’s been well known that Mathis used a technique called “double breathing” whereby one seems to be able to blow a horn or sing continuously without stopping to take a breath. Here he sings one note for 1 minute and 28 seconds setting a world’s record at that time.