![]() ![]() I’m even a little nervous about where I stuck “Second Time Around,” although not bass legend Larry Graham’s stupendously terrible “One in a Million You. To show the somnambulism into which the pop chart had lapsed, compare a random week in 1980-1981 to what appeared on the R&B chart, then compare the chart positions on the Hot 100 of those R&B hits. A one in a million you I was a lonely man with empty arms to fill Then I found a piece of happiness to call my own And life is worth livin' again For to love you, to me, is to live A one in a million chance of a lifetime And life showed compassion And sent to me a stroke of love called 'You' A one in a million you A one in a million chance of a. It’s impossible to overstate what a relief the R&B chart was in the early Reagan era, and I can reshuffle the solid entertainments and good/great ones for days: this afternoon I hesitate about categorizing the SOS Band’s biggest pop crossover (it’s missing something prefer their Jam and Lewis period) and “Double Dutch Bus” (a splendid novelty riding its novel sound).
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