Time for a bit of Canadiana once more on the regular weekly Reminiscings of Youth. I first posted his 1978 "I Just Wanna Stop" a few years ago, and another frequent radio presence by singer-songwriter Gino Vannelli in my youth was his March 1981 song "Living Inside Myself". A single and a track on his seventh album "Nightwalker", it's another lush and epic ballad about the huge regrets being suffered by a man after a breakup. A song about a heart crushed like so many graham crackers shouldn't sound so wonderful, but it does.
In Canada, "Living Inside Myself" went up to No. 13 on RPM while on America's Billboard, it soared even higher by placing in at No. 6. Another wonderful thing is that a number of those YouTube reactors have been discovering and delighting in this sad song.
So, what else was being released in March 1981?
Masahiko Kondo -- Yokohama Cheek （ヨコハマ・チーク）
Naoko Kawai -- Juu-Nana Sai （17才）
Hiroyuki Okita -- E-Kimochi （E気持ち）
I didn't think I was paying attention to music at all back in 1981, but somehow I do vaguely remember hearing Gino Vannelli’s “ Living Inside Myself,” even though I neither knew his name nor the title of this song.
ReplyDeleteHello, Brian. Ironically, I think 1981 was the year that I began to really get into music on both sides of the Pacific. Vannelli was someone I first got to know through the radio and then when I saw him, I noticed that he was a pretty hirsute character. :)
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