About once a year I pull out my CD of TJ’s 40th anniversary: the complete singles list.
I play it in my car for a week or so front to back and then go back to repeat many favorites.
Of course Crystal Blue Persuasion is still my No. One song after all these years, so that song gets played a few more times.
But there are four love songs that Tommy has recorded that just bring back so many memories.
One is appropriately called “Love Song”. No matter how many times I play it, the opening intro takes me back to August /September 1972.
The same goes for ” Boo Boo Don’t cha be Blue. The opening notes take me back to February and March 1973 when our local stations WOHO 1470 and WTTO 1520 AM played them it’s seems all the time despite the fact they didn’t climb very high on the charts.
Tommy’s delivery, voice , production the memories connected with them , the time of my life, everything just make these two songs the highlight of my collection. It also helped that a different girl crush was connected to each song.
“She ” is another love song that resonated in my life. Around Christmas time 1969 memories.
And last but not least is Tommy’s love song from “Hi Fi” : “You Take My Breath Away”. Tommy was talking about his “next” album at a concert in 1985. He played “Go”. I looked for it nearly every week for several years. I gave up looking.
Then in an interview with Tommy on the Dick Bartley oldies show, they played his new song “Go” on Labor Day weekend 1990.
The album was only on CD at the local record stores. I didn’t have a CD player yet and had to order the cassette tape, since vinyl records were on the way out in 1990.
“You Take my Breath Away” turned out to be the new love song to my future wife, Barb. And it was played on a local radio station a few times.
Enjoy.
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Gary Lovell