Music Break

I know it's been a while since I've done a post of this kind, as not since last year, so here are a few songs that I've run across in the mean time.  Up first is one that I've previously considered but never used, Jump Into The Fire by Harry Nilsson, from his 1971 album Nilsson Schmilsson.  Personnel on the track include Nilsson on vocals and electric piano, John Uribe on lead guitar, Chris Spedding and Klaus Voormann on rhythm guitar, songwriter Jimmy Webb on piano, Jim Gordon (of Derek and the Dominos) on drums, including a solo, and Herbie Flowers on bass, which he detuned as he played.  Voormann is better known for playing bass, such as in Manfred Mann and on more session work than I could ever recall, but he was on guitar for this one.

Singer/songwriter and 2016 Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan wrote Neighborhood Bully, which is thought be about Israel.  If so, the song might seem relevant today, but it was released in 1983 on his album Infidels.  A few years back, someone tried to find the song on YouTube, but it was blocked due to it allegedly being "hate speech".

Back in the 1970s when disco was big, I didn't like most of it, but I recently found myself enjoying this number by La Bionda entitled One For You One For Me.  The group consisted of the two brothers Carmelo and Michelangelo La Bionda, who were born in Sicily and later moved to Milan, Italy.  In the video, one of them sings and plays keyboards, the other plays bass, but I don't know which is which.

Poco's 1978 album Legend was the group's most successful up until then, spawning the hit singles Crazy Love, written and sung by multi-instrumentalist Rusty Young, and In The Heart Of The Night, from guitarist Paul Cotton.  This is the album's title song, written by Young.

To finish, this is Waterfall, from the eponymous debut album of the pop duo Wendy & Lisa, who had both worked with the artist sometimes known as Prince in his band the Revolution.  (The album title spells out "and", while they use the symbol "&" in their act's name.)  More specially, the two are Wendy Melvoin on lead vocals and guitar and Lisa Coleman on keyboards and backing vocals.  Fellow Revolution alumnus drummer Bobby Z. (real name Robert Rivkin) helped write the song.