Great song, great article, Kiley! I got thru the shorter vid, and started to wonder if you had or would mention Temperton! Thank you! I had to look it up, which I did before your mention. I've always loved the song, and even did it in karaoke (along with "Yah Mo B There") many times!
I always found MM interesting to sing. His voice seemed right in between head and chest voice. I could approximate his tone and pitch if I did sort of a loud falsetto! For "SF," I always loved, in the beginning, the little-elec piano?-arpeggio just as he starts the first verse! It's got the little vamp for...what, two or 4 bars, and then that lift-off finger roll! Hey, you had to listen to those deets for karaoke! Thanks again!
Thanks, Brad! So many talented musicians on this song, including Paul Jackson Jr. who also played on a load of MJ’s albums. Great karaoke song as well! That is one thing that I used to do all the time until the pandemic and haven’t been back since. I think I need to change that!
Ha, awesome. Nice song that I'm sure I've heard at some point, but never registered (no grocery store pun intended) Def feel the love/hate relationship with MM. He brings you to heaven, then takes you through hell.
Another perfect example of a great song long outlasting the mediocre (at best) movie it was a part of (take a bow, Dan Hartman). Of course, anything Michael McDonald touches turns to gold, so I guess it's not really a surprise. There was an auto dealer in Portland that used to used the music from his "No Lookin' Back" for their ads. Always kinda weird to hear that song being used to peddle Mazdas...
As for grocery store staples? Oh man! This has gotta be it's own genre, right? A few off the top of my head:
What a weird song to use in an ad for hawking cars! So dark.
Great selection of songs and all ones that I've heard a million times at the store. I think that is the acceptable setting to listen to Fastball!
Right? I mean, I get that the synth riff is kinda cool, but still...
Great song, great article, Kiley! I got thru the shorter vid, and started to wonder if you had or would mention Temperton! Thank you! I had to look it up, which I did before your mention. I've always loved the song, and even did it in karaoke (along with "Yah Mo B There") many times!
I always found MM interesting to sing. His voice seemed right in between head and chest voice. I could approximate his tone and pitch if I did sort of a loud falsetto! For "SF," I always loved, in the beginning, the little-elec piano?-arpeggio just as he starts the first verse! It's got the little vamp for...what, two or 4 bars, and then that lift-off finger roll! Hey, you had to listen to those deets for karaoke! Thanks again!
Thanks, Brad! So many talented musicians on this song, including Paul Jackson Jr. who also played on a load of MJ’s albums. Great karaoke song as well! That is one thing that I used to do all the time until the pandemic and haven’t been back since. I think I need to change that!
Hitting that falsetto can't be easy!
Ha, awesome. Nice song that I'm sure I've heard at some point, but never registered (no grocery store pun intended) Def feel the love/hate relationship with MM. He brings you to heaven, then takes you through hell.
All heaven here, baby!
Another perfect example of a great song long outlasting the mediocre (at best) movie it was a part of (take a bow, Dan Hartman). Of course, anything Michael McDonald touches turns to gold, so I guess it's not really a surprise. There was an auto dealer in Portland that used to used the music from his "No Lookin' Back" for their ads. Always kinda weird to hear that song being used to peddle Mazdas...
As for grocery store staples? Oh man! This has gotta be it's own genre, right? A few off the top of my head:
*Robbie Dupree- Steal Away
*Fastball (I know!)- The Way
*Joe Jackson- Steppin' Out
* Duncan Shiek- Barely Breathing
*Eagle-Eye Cherry- Save Tonight