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"Ewok together..."
This duo from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, made up of Lenny LeBlanc and the late Pete Carr gave us this lost hit. Like an England Dan & John Ford Coley tune we profiled a while back, this is yet another slice of 1977 adult contemporary with misheard lyrics with a pop culture connection.
Now, the Ewoks were not introduced to the Star Wars universe until 1983, which means the line in this song didn't catch my attention until the song was a few years old. I remember hearing the song long before then though. I think I first noticed the Ewok-related lyrics when we were in line at the pharmacy counter at Thriftway (a now-defunct local supermarket chain) and it was playing on the store's music system. But that could just be...the power of suggestion!
That's not the end of the "Falling" saga!
After this record was a hit, Lenny found religion. I guess there's really nothing wrong with that. But what he said afterward was rather interesting. In an interview with a religious TV show, Lenny talked about how he used to do all these demonic, decadent things like record "Falling." He made it sound like "Falling" was an anthem about biting heads off schoolchildren instead of a tender love ballad that was on par with big hits by Bread or Randy VanWarmer.
"Falling" may be a little too much for these days, with Big Tech censorship and social distancing being the law of the land, but 1977 was more freewheeling times. LeBlanc & Carr charted during the same era as Kiss and Alice Cooper. Put on the 1977 glasses and imagine how tame LeBlanc & Carr sounded compared to some of the other performers of the day.
