It's bleak out there - dank, wet and windy - but it's not meant to last, the weekend's almost upon us, and it's pay day!
Time, methinks to get this party started - so let's let our hair (or our braids) well and truly down, enjoy a classic choon from this week (gulp!) 47 years ago and...
...Thank Disco It's Friday!
Runnin' pretty, New York City girl
Twenty-five, thirty-five
Hello baby, New York City girl
You grew up riding the subways running with people
Up in Harlem, down on Broadway
You're no tramp but you're no lady talkin' that street talk
You're the heart and soul of New York City
And love, love is just a passing word
It's the thought you had in a taxi cab
That got left on the curb
When he dropped you off at East 83rd
Oh oh oh (Oh oh oh)
You're a native New Yorker
You should know the score by now
You're a native New Yorker
New York girl, ooh ooh ooh
Music plays, everyone's dancing closer and closer
Making friends and finding lovers
There you are lost in the shadows searching for someone
To set you free from New York City
And, whoa, where did all those yesterdays go?
When you still believed
Love could really be like a Broadway show
You are the star, win the applause
Oh oh oh (Oh oh oh)
You're a native New Yorker
No one opens the door
For a native New Yorker
(Runnin' pretty, New York City girl)
Ooh ooh ooh
Native, native, native New Yorker
Where did all those yesterdays go?
When you still believed
Love could really be like a Broadway show
You are the star
You're a native New Yorker
You should know the score by now
You're a native New Yorker
Have a good weekend, dear reader!
I’ve been on the subway in recent days listening to tramps and ladies.
ReplyDeleteYou should know the score by now... Jx
DeleteLoved this back then. Often enjoyed stuff that had a different sound.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely loved Odyssey! After this choon, they remained massively successful over here in the UK, with a succession of Top 10 hits and a #1 - none of which even charted in the USA. Needless to say, they settled here and never looked back... Jx
DeletePS Fun Fact: None of them was from New York.
Dank, wet and windy. And that just sums up the inauguration day alone.....
ReplyDeleteI haven't watched any coverage of anything to do with the inauguration of somebody else's president. He's a fat boorish twat who annoys me whenever I hear his voice or catch a glimpse of his badly spray-tanned orange face, and, thankfully he is not anything to do with the UK.
DeleteLet's talk about Odyssey and their fabulous music, shall we?! Jx
47 years??? You have got to be kidding?
ReplyDeleteSunday looks rubbish for weather so enjoy today!
Sx
Oh yes, indeed - that song is as old as Volodymyr Zelensky, Emmanuel Macron, Danny Dyer, Liv Tyler and Aiden Turner...
DeleteThe sun (albeit low, and will soon disappear behind the houses) is dazzling as I type this! Jx
Jon, once again reminding us of our age and a bygone age we belong to :)
DeleteI remember Odyssey, when their song Native New Yorker came out it seemed everyone was claiming they were from New York. Always wondered what happened to them, but even at its peak in 1977 disco was starting to fade and by 1979 it was over, at least in the USA. Great to hear Odyssey did great in the UK. Same with the Flirtations, Madeleine Bell, Linda Carr and other black singers that found more success in the UK and Europe than in America. The music biz in America is hard to get into, you not only have to have talent, you have to know people in the biz with connections, otherwise you get nowhere. So some of the best overlooked talent ends up in the UK and Europe, our loss your gain :)
-Rj
Oh, there's dozens and dozens of US artists who were much more successful over here than in their homeland - including Blondie, Chrissie Hynde/The Pretenders, Jimi Hendrix, Walker Brothers, Three Degrees, Suzi Quatro, Sparks, Anastacia, Fern Kinney and Jennifer Rush, to name but a few... Jx
DeletePS I agree - I love more of the music of the 80s than I do any other decade, which does indeed mark me as being "officially old". Sigh.
Pure Disco. Loved it then love it now.
ReplyDelete"And, whoa, where did all those yesterdays go?"
My thoughts every time I look in the mirror, dear. Jx
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