#36 “LUCKENBACH, TEXAS (BACK TO THE BASICS OF LOVE)” by Waylon Jennings, which made it to #1 on the country charts, is one of those self-referential works that always kinda bug me. Movies about the movie industry and songs about musicians seem like inside jokes, crafted to please other industry folks and not that relatable to "you and me." of course there are exceptions, like Seeger's
Turn the Page, Byrds
So you wanna be a rock n roll star. hmm, so there you go, I just exposed myself ...
maybe I'm just hatin' on Waylon in this song.
The Helen Reddy song was too wimpy. I've already forgotten it.
digging on the Rufus feat Chaka Khan "Hollywood"
and I have to note the two nice sad love songs we started with :
#40 “ALL YOU GET FROM LOVE IS A LOVE SONG” – The Carpenters
#39 “IT’S SAD TO BELONG” – England Dan & John Ford Coley
pretty nice, and you have to feel for England Dan and JFC, being trapped in a relationship with each other when their "real" true loves came along. (I wonder who that was?)