(06-10-2018 09:25 AM)GoodOwl Wrote:  saw this posted elsewhere and thought it also belonged on this thread:




and the original song it refers to is:

Artist: Christopher Cross
Album: Christopher Cross (debut)
Track: "Ride Like The Wind"
1979 Warner Bros. Records




It's an album worth checking out, for those who remember and you younger folks. Flippin' solid album all the way through. Guy was not much for looks, so probably wouldn't have made it in today's video-centric age, but he had the songwriting chops and could put together mainstream tunes for days on end:

Quote: Christopher Cross is the self-titled debut album by Christopher Cross, released in December 1979. Recorded in mid-1979, the album was one of the early digitally recorded albums, utilizing the 3M Digital Recording System.[2] In 1981, it won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, famously beating Pink Floyd's The Wall.[3] It has been noted for being one of the most influential soft rock albums of the early 1980s.

After 1984, Cross's star quickly dimmed. As music television station MTV grew to dominate the mainstream music scene in the U.S., Cross's style of music proved to be a bad fit for the network, and Cross's brand of adult contemporary music declined in popularity.

In 2017, he decided to play a concert at his hometown, Tobin Center, San Antonio, Texas.

Track listing
(All tracks composed by Christopher Cross.)

"Say You'll Be Mine" – 2:53
"I Really Don't Know Anymore" – 3:49
"Spinning" (Duet with Valerie Carter) – 3:59
"Never Be the Same" – 4:40
"Poor Shirley" – 4:20
"Ride Like the Wind" – 4:30
"The Light Is On" – 4:07
"Sailing" – 4:14
"Minstrel Gigolo" – 6:00

The revival of interest in yacht rock has to help him if he doesn't mind leaning into it. He's one of the definitive voices of that genre (Michael McDonald is the absolute face of the style, I think).

Maybe Sailing can be the next Africa, that song that older people remember and like that younger people almost randomly elevate into a meme.