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Is this the only single polled so far where the A side has received all the votes to date?
Not all of them. Someone voted for the b-side. Expose thyself and tell us why. For my part, I'm honestly curious. No shade will be thrown your way. Come clean, darn it. It's good for the soul.
Ed
It was I! Mostly because I'm a rabble-rouser but also because I genuinely do like the song and the vocal/musical performance is much more emotionally involving than Touch Me for reasons I explained above.
I voted!!!
I guess it's Jarred and me against the world.
Seriously, I have always been a champion of this song. It's easy for me to brush aside what we know happened with Karen and Tom while I listen to this track. I can't let it distract me from how Karen puts so much emotion into this song, especially the first half of the song for me.
I really like how Karen tells a story for the listener and takes us on this journey. I love how Karen interprets the lyrics of "it was more fun to be children, we just took life as it happen" and I love how Karen sings, "come and sit by my side, listen to me, words come so hard" I don't know why but those few lyrics sends goosebumps up my arms, the raw emotion of her singing those words get to me.
The field that the programmers allotted for a song title was 25 characters, so this song got entered as:TOUCH M WHEN WE'RE DANCIN
I don't know why that fact stayed with me, but every time I see the name of the song, it flashes through my mind.
Considering that the main record-buying public was teenagers, the image of two people dancing and touching, as seen on the piano-top on the video, was dull.
Why wasn’t anyone at the label looking at this video - which was their big comeback single - and saying “guys, this is corny. Let’s start over”?
They were majorly let down by the label and the marketing team. Yes, Karen looked terrible in the video but surely they could have come up with something better than this. Erasing the dancing couple on the piano would have even been a decent start.
It's almost maddening how he could save corny tunes with his vocal arrangements.
This begs the question “why all the corny tunes then?”. He definitely turned out a lot of sub-par tracks during the last five years of their career as a duo, far too many for my liking. Many of them surfaced on VOTH. He’d definitely lost his touch from 1978 onwards.
Why wasn’t anyone at the label looking at this video - which was their big comeback single - and saying “guys, this is corny. Let’s start over”?
They were majorly let down by the label and the marketing team. Yes, Karen looked terrible in the video but surely they could have come up with something better than this. Erasing the dancing couple on the piano would have even been a decent start.
their main use was for potential promotion in other markets - 'Calling Occupants' was shown on Top of the Pops in the UK when the single was climbing the charts there - although once again, there weren't many programmes at that time that would show videos in any case. The only other time I imagine they were used was in brief snippets being included in news reports (should there be any).
So, I'd agree that the videos for the Made in America singles were pretty corny, but I doubt they had any impact one way or the other on the success of (or lack of) these singles on the charts at the time.
Calling Occupants - I like it because it’s conoletely gonzo but it fits in nowhere. It’s not something that would have worked on radio and it doesn’t work well edited.
Ed
Lol. I like your description.
I feel the opposite. I suppose because we heard the edited version of 'Calling Occupants' so much here on radio, that sounds right as the song, whereas the long version sounds alien. You can travel anywhere while the album version is playing, come back anytime later and it's still going.