For our second California post....let's talk about the darlings of the San Francisco Bay area.
We are talking about Huey Lewis and the News and NOT ANY OTHER BAND.
This song was the band's second US Top 10 hit, reaching that in 1983 as the lead single from their album Sports. Written by songwriting team Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn, this song was originally performed by Exile, but this version was more popular and garnered a Grammy nomination (that lost to The Police).
The song itself is one of my favorites of theirs, and would remain a fan favorite even as it was eclipsed by later hits.
Huey's story has a saddish ending - he started going deaf and performed as long as he could, but he did eventually lose his hearing to the point where he could no longer sing. A cochlear implant allowed him to hear speech, but not music and no longer allowed him to sing.
Which is a shame, because he never lost his stage presence, even 30 years after his hitmaking years.
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