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**Official Yacht Rock Headquarters** - It's time to feel good (1 Viewer)
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Pip's Invitation
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Doug B
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Sneaky good line Moss never gets credit for.
EDIT: Oooh ... that's the long album version with the nice outro guitar solo.
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Doug B
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One more, then I'll leave it for the night. Just love watching talented players hammer out these songs, even if I've heard them a jillion times:
"Fooled Around and Fell in Love" -- Elvin Bishop on guitar, Mickey Thomas (Jefferson Starship) on vocals
This one is also the long album version with an extra verse.
"Fooled Around and Fell in Love" -- Elvin Bishop on guitar, Mickey Thomas (Jefferson Starship) on vocals
This one is also the long album version with an extra verse.
BeTheMatch
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Pip's Invitation
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This song contributed to the breakup of the band. After it became a hit, their label asked them for more like it. Derek Holt, who wrote and sang it, was on board, but the rest of the band was not.
It took me forever to realize this was the same band that did Couldn't Get It Right. It was five years earlier, sounds nothing like I Love You, and has a different lead singer (Colin Cooper).
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zamboni
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Just sitting here crying and drinking and thinking of Wikkidpissah. Figured I might as well dedicate a song to him:
Lotta Love - Nicolette Larson
Lotta Love - Nicolette Larson
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
doesn't qualify as the normal 80's "yacht rock" - but just heard this today ...
Sugar Sugar
yeah, but not mind-numbing one by the Archies - Wilson Pickett puts a great spin on this and it would fit nicely with some soft rockers.
Sugar Sugar
yeah, but not mind-numbing one by the Archies - Wilson Pickett puts a great spin on this and it would fit nicely with some soft rockers.
Doug B
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I wonder who was involved in the arrangement of Pickett's version? That's a very early adoption of a reggae line on keyboard, backing the verses.
Doug B
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... AND Ray Parker, Jr. during his Raydio heyday. Cool interview with Parker here.
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Might not be textbook Yacht Rock ... but this one is smooth enough to play on my boat. Kinda like YR meets The Spinners:
Jack and Jill - Raydio
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Was surprised to see who was responsible for this fine piece of craftsmanship...
Every Kinda People - Robert Palmer
Every Kinda People - Robert Palmer
Binky The Doormat
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BeTheMatch
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It certainly should be
BeTheMatch
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It's been too long.
Gino Vannelli - I Just Wanna Stop
Released as a single in August 1978, it remains Vanelli's biggest hit single to date, reaching No. 1 in his native Canada and No. 4 in the US. He received a Grammy nomination for best male pop vocal performance for the song, losing out to Barry Manilow.
Noted jazz musician Herb Alpert "discovered" Vannelli and gave him his big break after Vannelli encountered him on the street and convinced Alpert to let him put on an impromptu performance in front of him. He immediately signed him to A&M Records.
Gino Vannelli - I Just Wanna Stop
Released as a single in August 1978, it remains Vanelli's biggest hit single to date, reaching No. 1 in his native Canada and No. 4 in the US. He received a Grammy nomination for best male pop vocal performance for the song, losing out to Barry Manilow.
Noted jazz musician Herb Alpert "discovered" Vannelli and gave him his big break after Vannelli encountered him on the street and convinced Alpert to let him put on an impromptu performance in front of him. He immediately signed him to A&M Records.
New Binky the Doormat
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for those of you on the twitter ...just discovered this today
Doug B
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Title track to the album that contains the all-timer “What a Fool Believes”.
Encyclopedia Brown
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The band looks happy. They seem to have gotten over their anger at Rerun for bootlegging one of their concerts.
zamboni
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Didn't realize Patrick Simmons had some serious hops.
BeTheMatch
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timschochet
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Love this thread.
Couple of Yacht Rock classics in the top half of my 1982 list, coming up a little later…
Couple of Yacht Rock classics in the top half of my 1982 list, coming up a little later…
massraider
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Ha, deep cut.
Best thing about What’s Happening is that this is as close as they got to A Very Special Episode.
zamboni
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Al Dunbar was pretty special.
Cowboysfan8
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Try the “Blondie Mix” if you’re on Spotify.
Easily my favorite playlist when I’m working in the garden or just chilling in the shade
Easily my favorite playlist when I’m working in the garden or just chilling in the shade
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George Benson - Give Me the Night
This song was written by Rod Temperton, who wrote some of Michael Jackson's hits, including "Thriller" and "Rock With You." Many of Temperton's songs are about a night out, just with the setting changed. One of his biggest hits is "Boogie Nights," a song he wrote for his band Heatwave. That one is about a disco-rific good evening.
The song reached No. 4 on the Hot 100 in 1980 and earned Benson a Grammy for best male R&B vocal performance.
Quincy Jones produced this track and assembled top-tier musicians to play on it. There's a lot going on, with different synthesizer sounds, strategic backup vocals, and echo on Benson's guitar riffs. The credits are:
Bass – Abraham Laboriel
Drums - John Robinson
Electric Piano – Herbie Hancock
Guitar – George Benson, Lee Ritenour
Percussion – Paulinho Da Costa
Synthesizer Bass – Richard Tee
Synthesizer – Michael Boddicker
Trumpet – Jerry Hey
Saxophone – Kim Hutchcroft, Larry Williams
Backing Vocals – Patti Austin, Diva Gray, Jim Gilstrap, Jocelyn Allen, Tom Bahler
Austin got a more prominent role the following year when she sang on "Baby, Come To Me," a duet with James Ingram that was also written Temperton and produced by Jones. That song went to #1 in the US.
This song was written by Rod Temperton, who wrote some of Michael Jackson's hits, including "Thriller" and "Rock With You." Many of Temperton's songs are about a night out, just with the setting changed. One of his biggest hits is "Boogie Nights," a song he wrote for his band Heatwave. That one is about a disco-rific good evening.
The song reached No. 4 on the Hot 100 in 1980 and earned Benson a Grammy for best male R&B vocal performance.
Quincy Jones produced this track and assembled top-tier musicians to play on it. There's a lot going on, with different synthesizer sounds, strategic backup vocals, and echo on Benson's guitar riffs. The credits are:
Bass – Abraham Laboriel
Drums - John Robinson
Electric Piano – Herbie Hancock
Guitar – George Benson, Lee Ritenour
Percussion – Paulinho Da Costa
Synthesizer Bass – Richard Tee
Synthesizer – Michael Boddicker
Trumpet – Jerry Hey
Saxophone – Kim Hutchcroft, Larry Williams
Backing Vocals – Patti Austin, Diva Gray, Jim Gilstrap, Jocelyn Allen, Tom Bahler
Austin got a more prominent role the following year when she sang on "Baby, Come To Me," a duet with James Ingram that was also written Temperton and produced by Jones. That song went to #1 in the US.
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Can I post a link in this wonderful thread?
A modern Yacht Rock classic. Daft Punk and Julian Casablancas of The Strokes doing a mellow little ditty called "Instant Crush." The production is off the charts. The smoothness of the auto-tune is not to be debated, even if you hate auto tune. Julian's got a mellow crush, and he's got a hankering to take her to the yacht. They use Daft Punk's Random Access Memories as a speaker reference these days. One of the most impeccably recorded albums of the century. (No exaggeration!)
Instant Crush
A modern Yacht Rock classic. Daft Punk and Julian Casablancas of The Strokes doing a mellow little ditty called "Instant Crush." The production is off the charts. The smoothness of the auto-tune is not to be debated, even if you hate auto tune. Julian's got a mellow crush, and he's got a hankering to take her to the yacht. They use Daft Punk's Random Access Memories as a speaker reference these days. One of the most impeccably recorded albums of the century. (No exaggeration!)
Instant Crush
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Al Wilson - Show and Tell
Wilson is a soul singer and drummer who was a member of The Rollers in the early '60s before going solo. His first solo hit was "The Snake" in 1968. His other hits were "La La Peace Song" and "I've Got a Feeling (We'll Be Seeing Each Other Again)."
This song was written and produced by Jerry Fuller, who also wrote Rick Nelson's "Travelin' Man" and a few hits for Gary Puckett & the Union Gap, including "Young Girl."
Johnny Mathis originally recorded it in 1973 but his version flopped. Later that year, Wilson recorded it with a stronger bass line and more powerful vocals, and it became a hit. When Jerry Fuller brought Wilson in to record the song, he offered to play the Mathis version for him, but Wilson refused.
On the 2002 "Forbidden Girlfriend" episode of Malcolm In The Middle, a naked Hal (Bryan Cranston) sings along to Wilson's version.
Wilson is a soul singer and drummer who was a member of The Rollers in the early '60s before going solo. His first solo hit was "The Snake" in 1968. His other hits were "La La Peace Song" and "I've Got a Feeling (We'll Be Seeing Each Other Again)."
This song was written and produced by Jerry Fuller, who also wrote Rick Nelson's "Travelin' Man" and a few hits for Gary Puckett & the Union Gap, including "Young Girl."
Johnny Mathis originally recorded it in 1973 but his version flopped. Later that year, Wilson recorded it with a stronger bass line and more powerful vocals, and it became a hit. When Jerry Fuller brought Wilson in to record the song, he offered to play the Mathis version for him, but Wilson refused.
On the 2002 "Forbidden Girlfriend" episode of Malcolm In The Middle, a naked Hal (Bryan Cranston) sings along to Wilson's version.
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Benny Mardones - Into the Night
With the opening line, "She's just 16 years old, leave her alone, they said," it's understandable if you think this song sounds a little statutory. Mardones, though, said that the 16-year-old girl he's singing about was named Heidi, and she lived in his apartment in Spanish Harlem. Their relationship was purely platonic, however, as Benny looked after Heidi and her family after her father left. Benny would pay her $50 a week to walk his basset hound, Zanky.
Mardones wrote this song with Robert Tepper, who would later write the song "No Easy Way Out" for the movie Rocky IV.
"One night Robert Tepper and I were up writing songs. It was about a week before we were leaving for Miami to cut the first big album, which was Never Run, Never Hide. We thought that we already had the hit song, so did Polydor Records. It was a song called 'Might Have Been Love.' But at the last minute we're sitting there one night at my apartment trying to write. Bobby kept playing the chord changes and we tried 18 melodies and 30 kinds of lyrics and all of a sudden the key in the door turned and I said, 'Oh my God, it's daylight.' Because we liked to keep the blinds down.
"And in she walks, 16 years old, dressed for school in a miniskirt, little stacked heels, adorable, 16-going-on-21. She said, 'You've been up all night?' and of course it was obvious. I said, 'Yeah, we have.' She says, 'Okay, come on, Zanky,' and she walks the dog out. When she leaves and goes out the door, my partner goes, 'Oh, my God.' I said, 'Hey, Bob. She's just 16 years old, leave her alone.' And literally five minutes later I said, 'Play that lick again, Bobby.' So he played the lick and I went (singing), 'she's just 16 years old, leave her alone, they say.' Then I thought about her dad and what he had done, and that's where I got (singing), 'Separated by fools who don't know what love is yet.' The chorus was, 'you're too young for me, but if I could fly, I'd pick you up and take you into the night and show you love like you've never seen.' Then the verse 'It's like having it all and letting it show. It's like having a dream where nobody has a heart. It's like having it all and watching it fall apart.' Because his success was not the family's success; it was just his. 'I can't measure my love there's nothing compared to it' - it was all about the abandonment of this family and this 16-year-old girl."
While the song has stuck like glue to radio playlists, when it first came out in 1980, radio stations had some concerns. Benny explains: "When it first was released, R&B stations all over America thought I was black. Then they found out I was white and they dropped the record. White radio was afraid to touch it because they thought it was about me dating a 16-year-old girl at my age. So Polydor Records sent out like 3,000 letters to radio stations across the country explaining what the song was really about. And the song got added and almost instantly started playing all over America."
When the song became a hit, Mardones suddenly found himself with a great deal of money and fame, which he didn't handle very well. He developed a cocaine addiction and got in the habit of drinking a bottle of whiskey every night. He recorded the album Too Much To Lose the next year, but when it came time to tour and promote it, he was in Miami, wasted out of his mind. His momentum was stopped cold and his record company, Polydor, lost interest. He continued his descent until 1985, when his son Michael was born and he stopped using drugs. His best friend pulled him together and flew him to Syracuse, where Benny started a new life away from the temptations of Miami. The only white stuff he saw was snow - and plenty of it. Benny became a local celebrity, met various women who helped raise his son (Michael's mom was in worse shape than Benny), and was a big concert draw in the area for the next 10 years.
In 1989, "Into The Night" was re-released after a "Where Are They Now?" feature on the Arizona radio station KZZP, which led to renewed interest in the song. The influential program director Scott Shannon added it to his playlist in Los Angeles, and radio stations across the country followed suit. A new version of the song was released, and this time it hit #20 in the US. The song was the only one to chart twice in the '80s by the same artist with the same version of the song.
This plays in the 2009 Breaking Bad episode "Down" in a scene where the main characters meet in a convenience store. The song also shows up in the movies Satin (2011), Life After Beth (2014), Get Hard (2015) and Nerve (2016).
Who knew Bryan Cranston was such a Yacht Rock fan???!!!
With the opening line, "She's just 16 years old, leave her alone, they said," it's understandable if you think this song sounds a little statutory. Mardones, though, said that the 16-year-old girl he's singing about was named Heidi, and she lived in his apartment in Spanish Harlem. Their relationship was purely platonic, however, as Benny looked after Heidi and her family after her father left. Benny would pay her $50 a week to walk his basset hound, Zanky.
Mardones wrote this song with Robert Tepper, who would later write the song "No Easy Way Out" for the movie Rocky IV.
"One night Robert Tepper and I were up writing songs. It was about a week before we were leaving for Miami to cut the first big album, which was Never Run, Never Hide. We thought that we already had the hit song, so did Polydor Records. It was a song called 'Might Have Been Love.' But at the last minute we're sitting there one night at my apartment trying to write. Bobby kept playing the chord changes and we tried 18 melodies and 30 kinds of lyrics and all of a sudden the key in the door turned and I said, 'Oh my God, it's daylight.' Because we liked to keep the blinds down.
"And in she walks, 16 years old, dressed for school in a miniskirt, little stacked heels, adorable, 16-going-on-21. She said, 'You've been up all night?' and of course it was obvious. I said, 'Yeah, we have.' She says, 'Okay, come on, Zanky,' and she walks the dog out. When she leaves and goes out the door, my partner goes, 'Oh, my God.' I said, 'Hey, Bob. She's just 16 years old, leave her alone.' And literally five minutes later I said, 'Play that lick again, Bobby.' So he played the lick and I went (singing), 'she's just 16 years old, leave her alone, they say.' Then I thought about her dad and what he had done, and that's where I got (singing), 'Separated by fools who don't know what love is yet.' The chorus was, 'you're too young for me, but if I could fly, I'd pick you up and take you into the night and show you love like you've never seen.' Then the verse 'It's like having it all and letting it show. It's like having a dream where nobody has a heart. It's like having it all and watching it fall apart.' Because his success was not the family's success; it was just his. 'I can't measure my love there's nothing compared to it' - it was all about the abandonment of this family and this 16-year-old girl."
While the song has stuck like glue to radio playlists, when it first came out in 1980, radio stations had some concerns. Benny explains: "When it first was released, R&B stations all over America thought I was black. Then they found out I was white and they dropped the record. White radio was afraid to touch it because they thought it was about me dating a 16-year-old girl at my age. So Polydor Records sent out like 3,000 letters to radio stations across the country explaining what the song was really about. And the song got added and almost instantly started playing all over America."
When the song became a hit, Mardones suddenly found himself with a great deal of money and fame, which he didn't handle very well. He developed a cocaine addiction and got in the habit of drinking a bottle of whiskey every night. He recorded the album Too Much To Lose the next year, but when it came time to tour and promote it, he was in Miami, wasted out of his mind. His momentum was stopped cold and his record company, Polydor, lost interest. He continued his descent until 1985, when his son Michael was born and he stopped using drugs. His best friend pulled him together and flew him to Syracuse, where Benny started a new life away from the temptations of Miami. The only white stuff he saw was snow - and plenty of it. Benny became a local celebrity, met various women who helped raise his son (Michael's mom was in worse shape than Benny), and was a big concert draw in the area for the next 10 years.
In 1989, "Into The Night" was re-released after a "Where Are They Now?" feature on the Arizona radio station KZZP, which led to renewed interest in the song. The influential program director Scott Shannon added it to his playlist in Los Angeles, and radio stations across the country followed suit. A new version of the song was released, and this time it hit #20 in the US. The song was the only one to chart twice in the '80s by the same artist with the same version of the song.
This plays in the 2009 Breaking Bad episode "Down" in a scene where the main characters meet in a convenience store. The song also shows up in the movies Satin (2011), Life After Beth (2014), Get Hard (2015) and Nerve (2016).
Who knew Bryan Cranston was such a Yacht Rock fan???!!!
FairWarning
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BeTheMatch
Footballguy
Absolute banger!
Bogart
Footballguy
I never knew the Dream Weaver guy sang this song!!
dickey moe
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NachtIs this yacht rock?
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My oldest texted me today and asked if I've heard of Yacht Rock. He's in the Purdue marching band and they are preparing for next weeks Yacht Rock themed halftime show and had no idea what it was. I told him to check out the old, hilarious, Yacht Rock web series (https://youtu.be/YNTARSM-Fjc?si=wyAi-GnvIlveeHVG) for a primer.
This stuff was the Muzak to my childhood. I told him there were definitely some good tunes and texting about it made we want to listen to some.
I took some edibles and put a Yacht Rock playlist on while I made dinner, and I got to thinking—this stuff is objectively terrible, right? It was a weird THC induced realization. I mean, the kitsch is great and I'm transported to my youth which feels good, and who doesn't like a little Doobie Bros.., but this music is kinda trash. Felt bad thinking so.
This stuff was the Muzak to my childhood. I told him there were definitely some good tunes and texting about it made we want to listen to some.
I took some edibles and put a Yacht Rock playlist on while I made dinner, and I got to thinking—this stuff is objectively terrible, right? It was a weird THC induced realization. I mean, the kitsch is great and I'm transported to my youth which feels good, and who doesn't like a little Doobie Bros.., but this music is kinda trash. Felt bad thinking so.
BeTheMatch
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I honestly think Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald could clear up this whole mess over in the middle east in about 15 minutes if we'd just give them a chance.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
This is it
higgins
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Bogart
Footballguy
Thanks for sharing this. Made my lunch hour just a bit better.
