Ambrosia : Biggest Part of Me
On April 5, 1980 Ambrosia's US#3 hit "Biggest Part Of Me" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at #60. It is one of those inescapable songs from the summer of 1980 that strikes a nostalgic major seventh chord. At 16, I basically had my dad's apartment to myself, a refrigerator stocked with good beer and an internship at the local newspaper.
This smooth yacht rock classic was all over the radio. It has the funky beat, the requisite sax solo and excellent production. All it's missing is Michael McDonald but it turns out singer David Pack could hit all thise falsetto notes just fine. Pack tells the Huffington Post how he came up with the song:
Moving on to a topic that is completely different...
This was also the date of the very first R.E.M. gig, a birthday party in which they played "Roadrunner", "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone", and "God Save the Queen" in front of 300 people. R.E.M. played for about two hours. Here's a great story about the gig.
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