An impressive work, Paul! Thanks! Only a few I was really aware of! In June of 1979, I was visiting L.A. for a week (from Houston), to see if I really wanted to move there! I wandered into the Sunset Blvd. Tower Records, and was met by the real-life, complete "The Knack" drum kit belonging to their drummer, Bruce Gary!
It was surrounded by hundreds of copies of their just-released debut Capitol album! But, after ogling all that, I noticed a familiar figure doing what I was doing: Eye-balling this impressively huge endcap display.....lead singer/guitarist, Doug Fieger! He had fallen by to have a glimpse of the recently-constructed display, and we shared a few words, but I mainly walked away just being gob-smacked that this was life in Hollywood....this couldn't happen in Houston!
Building a massive endcap with hundreds of albums? We did it, daily, at Cactus Records, where I worked for 3 years! But, having a recording artist just fall by to eye-ball it with record rep in tow? Nah. Not unless they were touring, and in town in the first place! I moved to L.A. in January '80!
Another great collection, Paul. I knew the songs but didn't know much about the women who inspired them. It seems that the Boyd sisters really "got around" as we used t say.
I have sea shanties written after me, most notably "The Drunken Sailor." ;--)
An impressive work, Paul! Thanks! Only a few I was really aware of! In June of 1979, I was visiting L.A. for a week (from Houston), to see if I really wanted to move there! I wandered into the Sunset Blvd. Tower Records, and was met by the real-life, complete "The Knack" drum kit belonging to their drummer, Bruce Gary!
It was surrounded by hundreds of copies of their just-released debut Capitol album! But, after ogling all that, I noticed a familiar figure doing what I was doing: Eye-balling this impressively huge endcap display.....lead singer/guitarist, Doug Fieger! He had fallen by to have a glimpse of the recently-constructed display, and we shared a few words, but I mainly walked away just being gob-smacked that this was life in Hollywood....this couldn't happen in Houston!
Building a massive endcap with hundreds of albums? We did it, daily, at Cactus Records, where I worked for 3 years! But, having a recording artist just fall by to eye-ball it with record rep in tow? Nah. Not unless they were touring, and in town in the first place! I moved to L.A. in January '80!
I learn something new from you every day it seems Paul. I had no idea who those songs were named after.
Brilliant… just brilliant. Lots of great songs to revisit:
There are definitely some variations on some of the stories 😊
Thank you for this
Another great collection, Paul. I knew the songs but didn't know much about the women who inspired them. It seems that the Boyd sisters really "got around" as we used t say.