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Andrew Gold (1951-2011)

Not too many people ever realized that his Mother, Marni Nixon, was the "voice" of so many movie stars like Natalie Wood in West Side Story, and Deb Kerr. Apparently Marni is still alive at 81. This must be very difficult for her.
 
He was a guest a few times on my show. Funny man. His demo of "Lonely Boy" starts with "Linda will be on in a minute" in reference to Ms. Ronstadt, who he was then leader of the band...Good guy, who says almost all the lyrics in that tune were made up. He was not a "Lonely Boy!"
 
He also did two songs that I like but did not get much airplay......Never Let Her Slip Away .......Thats Why I Love You......if you are interested in hearing clips of these songs I think they are on allmusic.com or maybe even on youtube.
 
>He also did two songs that I like but did not get much airplay......Never Let Her Slip Away

"Never Let Her Slip Away" was the one he talked about on my show last. Seems the shuffle beat used on this shuddabeen hit was overheard by a certain member of the Eagles and copied exactly for "Heartache Tonight." The story he told about it on "The Lost 45s" was priceless!
 
Similar genre and the same era as Andrew Gold..there was some nice music from Dan Fogelberg and The sweet voice of Kenny Nolan (I like Deamin') , was this music soft Rock, or A/C ??? What should we call the easy Eagles and America stuff...and then there was the great Jim Coce..His "Operator" is great and my favorites "Lovers Cross" and "I Have To Say I Love You In A Song". And Last, but most certainly not least, the magnificent Linda Rondstadt.
 
What was the followup to "Thank You for Being a Friend"? I know that there was one, and I recall hearing it on the radio a time or two, but I don't recall ever hearing a title for that one. Anyone know what that next single was?
 
firepoint525 said:
What was the followup to "Thank You for Being a Friend"? I know that there was one, and I recall hearing it on the radio a time or two, but I don't recall ever hearing a title for that one. Anyone know what that next single was?
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After "Friend" the only charted hit he had on the Billboard Hot 100 was "Never Let Her Slip Away" which peaked at #67
 
radioman148 said:
firepoint525 said:
What was the followup to "Thank You for Being a Friend"? I know that there was one, and I recall hearing it on the radio a time or two, but I don't recall ever hearing a title for that one. Anyone know what that next single was?
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After "Friend" the only charted hit he had on the Billboard Hot 100 was "Never Let Her Slip Away" which peaked at #67
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Was that (also) in 1978? That may be the one that I am looking for. I will see if I can find that on youtube sometime soon.

I am guessing that Andrew Gold continued as a songwriter after his own hitmaking days were over. He came from that southern California crowd of songwriters of the '70s.
 
You maybe getting confused and conflicted with Jay Ferguson. Also had 2 hits around the same time as Andrew did. They were both on the same record label, and had similiar sounds back in 77-78.
 
firepoint525 said:
radioman148 said:
firepoint525 said:
What was the followup to "Thank You for Being a Friend"? I know that there was one, and I recall hearing it on the radio a time or two, but I don't recall ever hearing a title for that one. Anyone know what that next single was?
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After "Friend" the only charted hit he had on the Billboard Hot 100 was "Never Let Her Slip Away" which peaked at #67
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Was that (also) in 1978? That may be the one that I am looking for. I will see if I can find that on youtube sometime soon.

I am guessing that Andrew Gold continued as a songwriter after his own hitmaking days were over. He came from that southern California crowd of songwriters of the '70s.
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Yes it was in the summer of 78 I believe.
 
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