Loneliness Is Haunting Me

Graham Parker and The Rumour : Hold Back the Night

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On March 20, 1977 Graham Parker and The Rumour's surprising cover of the Trammps's 1975 Top 10 hit "Hold Back the Night" peaked at #24 on the UK charts. It's the lead off track on their Pink Parker EP, which was released March 11 as a between meals snack for fans awaiting album number 3, Stick It To Me. .Brinsley Schwartz was sick the day the band recorded the song in Cologne so Thin Lizzy's Brian Robertson filled in.

40 Year Itch : Three We Missed

Andy Fraser : Changed Man

   A founding member of Free and vocalist with The Sharks, bass player Andy Fraser 's "Changed Man" was one of the most played songs in my "1975" iTunes playlist this year. Fraser died in March.

Frankie Miller : A Fool in Love

After his 1975 albums, Fraser tried to start a band with Scottish Otis Redding sound-a-like Frankie Miller, whose "A Fool in Love" came off his album The Rock, recorded in San Francisco.

The Trammps : Hold Back the Night

"Hold Back the Night" was a UK#5 hit in 1975 for the Philadelphia band whose "Disco Inferno" would be part of the mega-selling Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Graham Parker has a Top 30 hit with  "Hold Back the Night" in 1977