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CD SHOWCASE MEMORIES

Spinning the records…
…& turning the tables on automotive photos!

This week’s feature is Dan Seals’ ‘The Best’ album & 2 tunes: “Bop” (Side 1) & “My Old Yellow Car” (Side 2). This week’s featured interior: El Camino, Seth Lee Auto Sales “look like” car show, Tavares FL (photo by OC,SHer ERIC L)

ALBUM:
‘The Best’, 1987
ARTIST:
Dan Seals
For more about DS’ hits & history, see the 06/26/2016 “CD Showcase Memories” entry via THIS LINK HERE, the 11/11/2015 “Wednesday Wrap” entry via THIS LINK HERE & the 06/25/2016 “CarTunes Saturday” entry via THIS LINK HERE.
This record (which I own on vinyl) features 11 tunes. Side 1 has 1987’s “3 Time Loser” (#1), 1984’s “God Must Be A Cowboy” (#10), 1984-5’s “My Baby’s Got Good Timing” (#2, 2 weeks), 1986-7’s “You Still Move Me” (#1) & 1985-6’s “Bop” (#1; CMA Single Of The Year). Side 2 features 1986’s “Everything That Glitters” (#1), 1985’s “Meet Me In Montana” (#1; duet with Marie Osmond), 1984’s “The Wild Side Of Me” (#9), 1985’s “My Old Yellow Car” (#9), 1987’s “I Will Be There” (#1) & 1987-8’s “1 Friend” (#1).

FEATURE SONG # 1:
“Bop”
This absolutely fun, toe-tapping, get off your butt & DANCE tune hit the airwaves 10/26/1985, spent 27 weeks on the country charts & claimed #1 in early 1986, also earning Seals the CMA Single Of The Year award. The single crossed over & reached #42 on the Billboard Hot 100. At the time, it was Seals’ 2nd straight chart topper, behind his 1985 duet with Marie Osmond (“Meet Me In Montana”); the string of #1 hits stretched to 9, through early 1989, as part of 16 straight Top 10s, early 1984 to mid 1990. If you don’t at least SMILE at this vintage tune which gives a nod to the “bopping” era (~1950s, 1960s), something might be wrong!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKpn-GYsKSc

FEATURE SONG # 2:
“My Old Yellow Car”
While several songs on the album are my favorites (“My Baby’s Got Good Timing”, “You Still Move Me”, “Everything That Glitters” & “I Will Be There”), THIS is, hands down, the tune that prompted me to buy the album. Debuting 03/30/1985, this song spent 19 weeks on the county charts & peaked at #9, becoming his 4th straight Top 10, right before his string of 9 straight chart toppers. On a personal level, this song has ssssooo much meaning. You see, it was released ~6 months after “my” (parents’) car, a buckskin tan (“yellowish”) 1976 Monte Carlo, was traded for a different car, a 1982 Chevette. To this day, I distinctly remember the goosebumps (getting them now as I type this) I had the very 1st time I heard this song because, with some exceptions, I thought Seals had written it for me. I KNOW this is a song most everyone, if not everyone, can identify with in SOME way, so please take a listen….