Post by baylink on Jan 8, 2013 21:38:56 GMT -5
In one of the 1982 countdowns -- well, ok, several -- we heard some of the stories about the "6-man Australian band from Canada" called Moving Pictures.
Their only US hit was "What About Me", which went to number 29 in '82.
But every time I listened to it, I had this really weird chill up my back that said "that sounds like a Jim Steinman song".
Well, as it turns out, they didn't actually play the song much live, and when they did, they played it in a style that Wikipedia describes as "modern country". But the man who produced their first album heard band members Garry Frost and Alex Smith "tinkling around with the song on the studio piano", and that producer -- Charles Fisher -- was working on some other albums right around that time...
including Greatest Hits, by Air Supply, which included the Steinman-penned "Making Love Out Of Nothing At All". So the odds that Fisher might have had Steinman in mind while producing the Moving Pictures song are actually pretty good, when you consider the 1982 and 1983 release dates of the albums involved.
And now... on with the countdown.
Their only US hit was "What About Me", which went to number 29 in '82.
But every time I listened to it, I had this really weird chill up my back that said "that sounds like a Jim Steinman song".
Well, as it turns out, they didn't actually play the song much live, and when they did, they played it in a style that Wikipedia describes as "modern country". But the man who produced their first album heard band members Garry Frost and Alex Smith "tinkling around with the song on the studio piano", and that producer -- Charles Fisher -- was working on some other albums right around that time...
including Greatest Hits, by Air Supply, which included the Steinman-penned "Making Love Out Of Nothing At All". So the odds that Fisher might have had Steinman in mind while producing the Moving Pictures song are actually pretty good, when you consider the 1982 and 1983 release dates of the albums involved.
And now... on with the countdown.