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Were Jennifer Warnes and Randy VanWarmer separated at birth?
Go look at the video for our previous entry and compare it with this one. You be the judge!
As with Jennifer's lost hit, Randy's tune was popular around the time I attended that summer class just before 1st grade. It was also around the time that most current pop disappeared from local AM radio for a couple years. Much of the then-current music that was played was softer stuff like this. Remember, I was only 6, so I had too much energy to be interested in soft ballads. Thus, the MOR malaise that was soon to get under way blunted my interest in popular music.
I forgot about this song for about 10 years after that. I remembered it when I was flipping through the channels on TV and it was playing on one of those local cable channels that had computerized text ads. Despite radio's preference for softer music, I rarely heard it again after that.
Randy wasn't exclusively an adult contemporary warhorse. He also gave us the minor chart entry "Suzi Found A Weapon." It seems like I may have heard that song once a long time ago and mistook it for the Cars. The Wikipedia article on Randy says "Suzi" went to #1 in Alaska - which is interesting because I didn't know Alaska had its own music chart.
Also, I used to get Randy VanWarmer confused with Michael Johnson, another Coloradan. And I used to get Michael Johnson confused with Michael Jackson.
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