I love this song! It always puts me in a better mood, and I know I want this song played at my funeral.
My best friend from high school, who has always had much better taste in music than me, found a greatest hits album of Esquivel, and we just loved the hell out of it. To this day, I am still surprised that Esquivel isn’t more renowned. His stuff is great.
This is a fun one to try to explain to my kid. And EVERYONE was doing drugs in the 70’s.
I love The Cars, and love the hell outta this song. Also, I put the live version of this song up, as there is something so cool about The Cars as a band performing live.
And once I listened to it, well… you know why its here.
As a parent, it is important that I educate my daughter so that she is prepared for the world that she will enter one day. And for that reason, the wife and I have started showing her old TV shows from the 80’s and 90’s. This week we landed on Quantum Leap.
The good news is, at least for the first half of the first season, the show has aged well and the kid is enjoying watching it. The bad news is that now I have the theme song stuck in my head non-stop. It’s not a bad theme song – its just that it won’t go away.
And as I have started looking up more production information on Quantum Leap, I discovered that the theme was written by one of the greatest TV theme song composers ever; Mike Post. If you are a Gen-X kid or a fan of 70’s and 80’s TV, then you have heard his work. See, Mike Post is the co-composer, with Pete Carpenter, of one of the greatest theme songs of all time: The Rockford Files. But, that is an earworm for another day…
