Singer Paul Davis passes away

[firepoint525]

"I Go Crazy" was indeed a song that spent a record amount of weeks on the chart. This is fresh in my mind, I recently heard an American Top 40-the70s show from March 1978 and Casey Kasem made a big deal about how the song first hit the Hot 100 in the Summer (of 1977) slowly climed the chart and was still going strong all those months latter. What a haunting yet beautiful song that is. There is actually a techno dance cover version of it performed by a female artist, I heard it in the supermarket just the other night.

I believe there is a lesson for radio here. Don't be so quick to give up on a song if it doesn't show immediate signs of becoming a hit. This is what began to happen in the '80s. Many early '80s minor hits didn't get enough of a chance the first time; so many of them were given a second chance later in the decade, and many of them became top 10s and number 1s as much as five years after their original release dates.

If radio had been so quick to give up on "I Go Crazy," many of us never would have heard it, and we wouldn't be discussing it here now, 30 years later!

 

[Jay F]

Al Wilson who sang Show And Tell died also when did al wilson die ? "the snake" from 68 is my favorite

That's sad as well. Interestingly both Paul Davis and Al Wilson were born in the same town...Meridian MS.