If I were made to choose between being blind or deaf, I'd hang on to my hearing. I do not have to see beauty, I can imagine it. But I can't imagine music, I need to hear it to know how beautiful it is.
I'm glad you liked this one. Actually if I were made to draw up a Top Ten list of my all-time favorites, it would be pretty hard to choose among the many, many songs that I like but I am very sure, this song will be there. Apt description of what my college life was like - crazy, crazy life. :)
No, dp, it's not in that album. When I played it on my show, it was already in Gino's first "The Best ..." album but I just researched this from Amazon and it appears that Gino Vannelli had an album entitled "Crazy Life". I also wish to quote this anecdote from the insert:
Two days before their schedule flight home, Vannelli activated a brave plan at the gates of A&M Records. "After four hours of waiting, Herb Alpert came walking across the lot from his office, and I almost ran over him," Vannelli recalled in a bio. "Obviously, he was shocked. The guard came running after me-- it was chaotic. I think Herb saw that glint in my eye and knew what I was really about and let me play a few of my songs (including "Crazy Life", "Mama Coco" and "Powerful People"). As I sang, he just smiled. When I finished, he said, "Okay, let's do it, on one condition -- that I produce your first album.'" ... Alpert produced the 1973 release, Crazy Life, which attracted little attention but the label head allowed Joe (his brother) and Gino to produce their subsequent projects which perhaps brought a more defined sound to the public.
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No, dp, it's not in that album. When I played it on my show, it was already in Gino's first "The Best ..." album but I just researched this from Amazon and it appears that Gino Vannelli had an album entitled "Crazy Life". I also wish to quote this anecdote from the insert: