Friday Videos–Billy Vera
I’m going to steal a page out of the book of my colleague Scott Cowan. He ran a series on his blog of his favorite videos, posting a new one each Friday. Totally devoid of any creativity, but thinking it was a fun idea, I thought I’d copy him. Why? ‘Cause it’s my blog and I can! Really, although I have no musical talent at all, I love music and think it’s a fun way to share stories about me. Besides, it’s just fun to explore YouTube for old favorites!
So each Friday for as long as I can, I’ll run a different video of a favorite song, with a short explanation of why I like the song.
This first song, by Billy Vera, has been a favorite since I can remember. Bummer thing is is that I don’t remember why I like it so much. It’s just been that song…the one I always break out into. Who knows? The interview with Vera at the end makes you want to hate the song, so turn it off after the song is over!
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August 21st, 2009 at 2:22 pm
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August 23rd, 2009 at 3:15 pm
That song was Alex’s love song in “Family Ties”.
I have no idea why I remember that.
August 26th, 2009 at 8:30 am
I have loved that song since as far back as I can remember – the sax riff still just takes me home everytime. Sang this song in a bunny costume doing kareoke one halloween – wife still won’t let me live it down. Rolls her eyes everytime the song plays on the radio. Billy Vera was a one hit wonder – took me years to actually know and remember the name of the artist. That interview after probably says a lot about why. Thanks for a fun post. Great Job. JW
September 2nd, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Billy Vera is multi-talented on many fronts.
He produced the last four Low Rawls CD and was nominated for a Grammy on the last one.
I just produced his first webcast last March from Vitello’s Italian Restaurant, there is a night club up stairs. He’s great to start with and a pleasure to work with on top of that.
The concert consisted of Billy on the Yamaha Grand Piano and one of his Sax players, Lon Price. Lon a season pro in his own right has back such artists as Elvis… and I will leave there. They did many of Billy’s hits and he would tell great stories about the music business. Billy has seen so much.
Billy has a newer CD out, “Hopeless Romantic-The Best of Billy Vera the Beaters.” Completely remaster and sounds the best of any live recording I have heard to date..Shout Factory Records, internationally distributed on your places that sell CD.
Take care