Carl Anderson -- How Deep Does It Go?

From Mercari

It's been a slightly unusual Friday due to it being Good Friday and we've put in that special ROY article in the middle of all of the urban contemporary material. And so, I will finish up things here with a sixth posting that I will not consider a ROY. 

For one thing, I posted Carl Anderson's "Pieces of a Heart" back in 2015, years before I came up with the Reminiscings of Youth series, simply because I loved and admired the ballad so much although it was campaigning for a product that I have never and will never use, Parliament Cigarettes. They might be death sticks but man, the commercials for it were always top-notch and classy when cigarette ads were allowed to exist. 

Yup, I ended up buying the 1990 CD single in Japan which you can see at the very top. The coupling song is no slouch either, and in fact, "How Deep Does It Go?" is one of those soulful make-out tunes that pretty much demands that one shouldn't slouch either in the activity that the song is promoting here (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)😉. Oh, Anderson's voice, the bluesy sax and those nighttime keyboards make it all worth the while. Both songs on the single would be must-plays on that fantasy late-night radio show I concocted a while ago.

Although Anderson would have been 81 this year, he unfortunately succumbed to leukemia in February 2004 at the age of 59.