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"I throw up my hands for you..."
This lost hit by this Sacramento band ranks up there with Crystal Gayle's line about "overflowing."
With lyrics like "I throw up my hands for you", the song doesn't need much elaboration. What makes it even funnier is that this act - though not a huge chart presence - had such a squeaky clean image like Judson Spence. They made Glass Tiger and Mr. Mister look like Marilyn Manson in comparison.
Lead singer Brent Bourgeois looked sort of like Chris de Burgh trying to emulate the Javier Milei look. Brent went on to have a solo hit that edged into the top 40 a few years later. Maybe we'll get to it someday. A friend of this blog once said that acts like Mr. Mister and Genesis circa their Invisible Touch set were like a "yacht rock" revival, but I think Brent's solo career might have a stronger claim on that.
Whatever the weather, the lost hit we're profiling today seems to represent a time when musical tastes and aesthetics shifted. It was roughly the era when MTV ditched its set that looked like the back room of a friendly record shop and replaced it with a background of forgettable sped-up film clips. I always think of the commercial for chocolate mint Bubblicious as an embodiment of this shift. It was also the same time everyone was supposed to start wearing flowered surfer shorts all the time. Or if that violated our school's dress code (as most things did), we were supposed to wear booger green pants that said "OFF DUTY" all over them.
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