Several Australian acts also made their mark in the soft rock genre, including Helen Reddy ( I Am Woman, Delta Dawn, Leave Me Alone(Ruby Red Dress)), Olivia Newton-John (I Honestly Love You, Have You Never Been Mellow, Please Mr. But they did get Kenny Loggins, Verdine White of Earth, Wind & Fire and Robert “Kool” Bell of Kool & the Gang.David Gates (Bread)- “Diary” Classic Soft Rock 1972 They missed relatively press-shy McDonald and prickly Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates. The doc wasn’t able to get every big soft rock act available to talk to them. “They were just great melodic songs by the best musicians of that time. Toffler said so many hip-hop acts such as Drake and Warren G grew up with parents playing soft-rock songs, so sampling those tunes was natural.
The comeback in the 1990s and 2000s also came in part due to rap acts. The third episode is all about how the genre is now beloved in many circles, how popular yacht rock has become and how current artists such as Dua Lipa, Harry Styles and The Weeknd funnel soft rock in their current music. “It became survival of the photogenic,” said the decidedly unphotogenic Holmes of “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)” fame. The second episode focuses on how uncool soft rock became when MTV arrived.
The series also features musicians in other genres expressing their love for soft rock, including Stewart Copeland of The Police, Daryl “DMC” McDaniels of Run DMC, Nancy Wilson of Heart, Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles and Sheryl Crow.Īnd there are a few Atlanta faces across the three episodes including the city’s own Yacht Rock Revue, Air Supply’s Russell Hitchcock - who lives in Marietta - and Big Boi of OutKast talking about hip-hop sampling of soft rock songs. And Firefall’s debut album in 1976 went gold faster than any album in the history of Atlantic Records, beating Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and Led Zeppelin. The Carpenters outsold Jimi Hendrix, CCR, the Sex Pistols and Lynyrd Skynyrd combined in record sales. Ray Parker Jr., long before he became a famous solo artist, toured with Stevie Wonder before writing a treacly hit “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing” for Leo Sayer (but received no writing credit.) Her response when he played it to her? “You’re way too intense.” And she moved in with a football player, he said. Dan Hill was just 19 when he wrote “Sometimes When We Touch” to try to woo an older woman.
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