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- Up next an exclusive interview with a cofounding member of the classic 70s and 80s group Little River Band. Graeham Goble who wrote and arranged the most played song in American history by an Australian band or artist…Reminiscing. The song went to #3 in the billboard charts in 1978. Since then it’s been played almost 6 million times on radio. There’ve been a lot of great australian artists over the years…right? AC/DC, INXS, Nick Cave, The Church, Olivia Newton John, Rick Springfield... and on and on and Little River Band or LRB as many know them by have the top song ever by an Aussie and the song almost got thrown out.. They couldn’t get the arrangement to work and were about to move on after trying to record it 2 separate times … Goble talked them into trying it just one more time and someone that wasn’t even in the band is the one who figure out how to make it work… also Beatle John Lennon said it was one of his favorite songs…. The story is next on professor of rock.
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It’s time for another edition of our series Revelations. Where artists and bands take us for a deep dive into their greatest songs and albums.. Details about the recordings that you won’t find ANYWHERE else and that’s a fact. Today was have the story the most played song in radio history by an Australian ARTISTS. I MENTIONED some of the great artist from down under but I left one out. It’s a band that has had a lot of hits here in the states and are definitely the greatest Australian Yacht rock group. I’m talking about Little River Band and the classic 1978 classic hit Reminiscing. We have the co-founder, writer and guitarist Graham Goble to tell us how he created it.
It was awarded the BMI award for 5 million plays and is now almost at 6 million plays. The song went to #3 on the hot 100 and was actually named by John Lennon as one of his favorite songs. Graham tells us that the entire song lyrics and music fell out of him in minutes…. he was fantasizing and romanticizing what it would’ve been like to have a relationship with a girl he never got with and having a romance in the 30s when big bands were the rage…the song was created in short order but then almost didn’t get recorded because they couldn’t get the arrangement to work.
Also Graham tells us that after writing this and many other Little River band Classics he and other original band members like singer Glenn Shorrock and Beeb Birtles haven’t been able to tour under the name because the band who uses the name currently who doesn’t have any original members controls it. How would you like to wake up one morning and see that everything you’d ever worked for and created was controlled by someone else. Get the full story next in our exclusive interview with Graham...
POLL; What is your pick for the greatest song by an Australian artist?
INXS - any of their hits - but I'll pick Need You Tonight
So many great Australian bands and songs, these should be great answers. Mine is the song you just covered today
"Underground" by The Angels. (They were known as Angel City in North America.) "Henry Lee" by Nick Cave and the Bad seeds featuring PJ Harvey. "The Voice" by John Farnham and "Electric Blue" by Icehouse.
One hit (Maybe 2 hit) wonder icehouse electric blue.
INXS don't change
One of the greatest songs of all time: another example of the perfect recording of an excellent song.
He says they were lucky. As a person that remembers when the song came out, I say we all were lucky to have grew up with music like this in our lives. And I thank him for it.
You are so SPOT on!
Also loved it when John Farnham was the lead singer..his version of Reminiscing just added a little bit extra
Me too
This is the kind of song that when most everyone who hears it, they never get tired of it - again…and again…and again. It’s pleasurable to the ears.
The way things are today.This song makes you start REMINISCING how GREAT things were.
It's 2023 & It's All Fabulous Song's..I Love" Little River Band" ! & I'm 68..Even Younger People Are Loving It..💜💜💜🎼🎵🎶🎼🌹⚘️😁
It's great that you do all these interviews because, in a few years, a lot of these guy may be gone.
One of the great songs ever! Loved it so much I learned to play it on guitar.
***PROF. TAKES A RIDE ON THE 'YACHT', & "REMINISCES" w/ THE REVELATION(S) OF A LEGENDARY SOFT ROCK BAND...*** ...well, now I see why Prof. took a while to interview LRB, he needed to know who to CALL! ...ha-HAA!! ...Oh, the LRB's are a close fave to me, because I jumped on the "Yacht Rock' in 1978, and this tune was the TEMPLATE of it! (CONT.)
...This was a GREAT post, because, hearing the COMPLETE Story of how this tune came about, is blowing me MIND! ...another great post, Prof. you REALLY are giving back to the Music community who appreciate the LEGENDS who are finally telling their Stories...
...let's do it, October 1978....
10. Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste Of Honey
9. How Much I Feel - Ambrosia
8. Love Is In The Air - John Paul Young
7. Double Vision - Foreigner
6. Kiss You All Over - Exile
5. Whenever I Call You Friend - Kenny Loggins (feat. Stevie Nicks)
4. MacArthur Park - Donna Summer
3. ***Reminiscing*** - Little River Band
2. You Needed Me - Anne Murray
1. Hot Child In The City - Nick Glider
....MAN, was this a MUSIC LESSON today, or WHAT!?? ...Sinatra, Porter, LRB, Manilow, BIZ MARKIE!? .....methinks I got an education today! ...keep (Yacht) ROCKIN', Prof.!!
It's all bout Biz! I really enjoyed interviewing this wonderful man. He's a great story teller eh? Thanks RBS!
When I knew the song featured today was "Reminiscing" and it was released in 1978, I was looking forward to this top 10 list on the charts. I was not disappointed. I love every song and remember enjoying them being played on the radio as a 13-year-old in 1978.
Wow. Along with the big band folks, there were some other legends in the charts this week. Foreigner, Kenny Loggins. Man. Just sublime.
MacArthur Park by Donna Summer is amazing. Epic. She had lots of great songs. Her 1989 Another Time and Place album is top dollar- Stock Aitken Waterman. Favourite Foreigner song is 1985s That Was Yesterday. That intro affects me every time. Not heard anything similar by any other band before or since.
@@eightiesmusic1984 ....just to show we're Two Of A Kind....I played my Donna Summer Japan Import ("12'ers"), of the Remixes from "APAT" yesterday, and I favor the ENDING of "That Was Yesterday", with Lou's painful wail, "OOOO-ooh-ooooh, OOOOOOH!!, with the ECHO! ...great minds, 'eh!? ; )
Love how this song genuinely captures the big band sound. How heartbreaking that it was inspired by unrequited love.
As an Aussie, it is nice have our bands remembered. We had such a strong music scene, especially in the 80s!.
I know!!! They even made great new wave music too!
until the suits filled all our local pubs with poker machines where the band stages used to be...
Yep..& with all the reaction channels, people are finally realising the top notch bands we had that were unheard of overseas. We were certainly blessed.
🇦🇺🤘🤘
I tramped around the Greek isles in ‘87 while blasting the Hoodoo Gurus on my Walkman.
The 80s: _Lived ‘em. Loved ‘em. Miss ‘em._
@@k.chriscaldwell4141 come back 80s; all is forgiven...
excellent. brilliant.
Sleeper Catcher was the first album I bought, still have it.
My wife and I have an unforgettable memory of a 2005 house party we hosted when all but a dozen or so folks had left...1-2am...my best friend put Reminiscing on the stereo...everyone chilled, solidly drunk, probably high & happy...WE ALL sang the song together as a unit smiling at each other as we sang, aware that it was a special moment.
Pure bonding of friends and human spirit over music...this song obviously had touched all our lives up to that exact moment. That's what a great song can do! Cheers, LRB!
Sounds like a perfect evening.
A GREAT song for bonding with friends, indeed!
Michael, you and your wife sound like the kinda folk I need to party with; you guys just get it...
❤ that ! Sounds like a Aussie 70's band Skyhooks " All my friends are getting married " sing a long I recall
❤ this song. music and vocals are beautiful.
It was a proud moment as a mother to hear several of LRB on my 16 year old daughter’s playlist on her phone. She is 19 years old now and the coolest. Her music tastes spans generations and that is not common today
Just wanted to share that
Beautiful BEAUTIFUL Music...
So good hearing how this absolute gem of a track came together...
Pure magic.
The Little River Band should be in rock n roll hall of fame !!!
63-yr-olde 'Karaoki-king' here. I have sang several-of their-songs -- MANY, MANY-timez! Some-timez i can't get-thru a rendition-of, 'Reminiscing' or 'Cool-change' w-o gettin'...., 'all-choked-up'. The vizual-imagery of, theez-2-songz, can-be OVER-whelming!! The AMAZING & FANTASIC, TALENT(s) combined to create this ''ABSOLUTE-MASTERPIECE' iz breath-taking & mind-boggling!! I would LOVE to go-to a concert so-tht, I could: shake-THEIR-handz & express MY (&, the WORLD's!!) HEART-felt APPRECIATION for the 'GIFTS' they gave-to-us!! 🤩🤩 🥰🥰
Glad to know that Graham wrote Lady, my own personal favorite by Little River Band.
< < < KILLER TUNE ! > > >
It's funny, because in 1978, the song was a nostalgia machine conjuring up the '30s, and now, for me, it's a nostalgia machine taking me in the wayback machine to the Summer and early Fall of '78.
Isn't that insane? Now we're closer to the years 2100 than 1930.
Time flies, man. Time just flies.
Great song.
I’m an Aussie & only 3 weeks ago I, along with my adult daughter & son, drove through Little River. I said to my kids, this is where the Little River band took their name. I think it’s called “reminiscing” isn’t it? I had to get it in!🤣👍🏼🇦🇺
A few years ago I took the exit from the Princes Hwy to see what it was like. A quiet place for sure, a pub, a grocery store/petrol station, unstaffed train station and a primary school.
This song is on my playlist and I play it everyday ❤
Ahh the memories!! .. Saturday nights in the “Manhattan” pub in Ringwood Melbourne Australia ..$2 entry fee .. Little River Band live and we were front row dancing and singing with the lads. Graham G write some of the best music and LRB songs .. I still play them. Outstanding interview!
Love this song and band. 👍🏻👍🏻
When I worked at Musicland in Rapid City, SD way back in the day--- LRB came into our store (not identifying themselves of course) the morning before their Concert in RC. They really enjoyed browsing thru our LP "Bargain Bin" finding albums they couldn't get in Australia--they each bought a bunch. It was SO great to meet them. They were very gracious gentlemen.
Love this song and band.
Sean Penn made his acting debut as a troubled teen in the brutal yet riveting film "Bad Boys"...in one scene, a violent act of revenge is about to literally explode ..but you're distracted because a song plays in the background that's got a slinky upbeat groove ..the character who is targeted is blasting it on his giant early 80's boombox , dance walking to the infectious beat...than ... 💥💥💥
It was a LRB song called "man on your mind"...a strange song to accompany extreme violence lol...and there Professor and co..is your useless trivia for the day. ☺️
HS ! I watched this movie a dozen times on VHS before I realized that and I already loved LRB ......lol Great movie too, was my first time seeing Clancy Brown one of my fav "lesser" actors.
Fantastic movie!!! Not many of my friends know it. I must've watched it 20 times b/w 1983-85
@@michaelvandiver2475 yeah ... Actually I'm searching for it now on several streaming apps ..I haven't seen it in years! Not exactly a Christmas flick lol...but as you stated, a great movie. There are a few notable actors making their early appearances, I believe Ally Sheedy ( the breakfast club) and Esai Morales who played the nemesis of Penns character.
Cheers🎄
He will forever be Spicoli to me.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude....
I love this song.Great band.Great interview.I love their song ‘I’ll be home on a Monday
My husband and I danced to this song and our wedding reception in '08. My husband passed away in October this year, we didn't get to grow old together. I'm crying as I listen to this episode, and reminiscing. One of the biggest things we had in common was our love of music, I introduced my husband to your show and we would watch it together. Thank you for all the interviews you do. Even though this one hit me hard, I still love the show ❤️💙
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❤
Thankyou for a great presentation of LRB as a 64 year old Ausie I got to see them in the early stages of their careers it's so true music is the soundtracks of our lives so many fantastic musicians bands songs not to forget the technology to perform it and deliver it to us for me LRB are one of the greatest bands on the planet I reckon if we all come back in 500 years they still will be playing reminiscing thankyou professor big love to everyone 🎼🎵🎶🎵🎶
I drove past the Little River pub today.
The classic story of LRB is where the name came from, they were travelling from Melbourne to Geelong and were told they needed a better name (can't remember the original name) and were passing a sign for a freeway exit for 'Little River".
One of my all time favorites by them !! It always get me in a good mood.
Love the LRB. Thank you.
Such great music
They should have played as "The Original Little River Band"
They couldn't reference their original name at all by the court ruling
@@errYuck That just sucks
Awwwwww this song 💥⭐💖🔥💯
Australia has some of the greats! Such classics.
🤟AC⚡️DC 🤟
Agreed!
#australiaisawesome 🇦🇺
In the 70s and 80s, Aussie bands were playing for a relatively small market and had to “sell” their songs live to a pretty brutal rock pub audience. It wasn’t the place for the shy or those who preferred the studio. You can hear in a lot of bands a “live” sound, from the Easybeats to AC/DC to INXS to 90s/noughties bands like Spiderbait, Regurgitator, The Grates and Powderfinger. I don’t know much about LRBs history live but I bet they were good.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 are you Aussie too 🦘?
Love this band. Reminds me of my Dad and sister when I was younger. My Dad used to play the Little River Band all the time.
Love Little River Band. I always felt they were very underrated and never got the overall credit and recognition they deserved. One of my favorite bands that would be categorized as yacht rock. I remember, during the late 70's and early 80's, they had a string of hit songs played all over top 40 radio. My favorite songs from them are "Reminiscing" (Today's featured song although I didn't know it's the most played song in radio history), "Help Is On Its Way", and "Lonesome Loser". Great band.
they are very underrated. SO many hits. Thanks Stephen.
Cool Change and Lady
All great songs
.....Oh, NO LRB is most DEFINITELY 'Yacht Rock'!! ...I went NUTS Fall of 1978, LRB, Player, Ambrosia, Loggins, Doobs, Nicolette...came into me OWN, because of these Acts...me 'ear' was toned VERY well, because of it....
@@swampsnake2003gmail I agree. Both are also great songs.
Awesome song from one of the great bands. So nostalgic hearing this again!
My wife and I saw little river band at our local county fair 8yrs ago this week and managed to get free tickets for track seating second row center stage. The lead singer was sick that night and loosing his voice so the rest of the group stepped up and really played their hearts out. It actually turned out to be one of the best shows of the week showcasing the talent of the entire group. I still have the t-shirt and wear it all the time. We made some new friends that night that we still hang out with.
You went to a " COVER BAND " show.
It’s not the real group. It’s a cover band
This song brings back nice memories.
I love this band! Saw it performed at Paramount Theater in NY in 2017. It was heaven and made me reminisce. ❤
Little River Band (the REAL one, not the joke that exists today) is one of Australia's best ever exports. Reminiscing is a classic. I never tire of hearing it, and I'm proud that an Aussie band wrote & recorded it so beautifully 🇦🇺
The 30's and 40's standards are the music of my grandparents generation and I've loved them for 60 years as well, even though classic rock is my main go to. Graham got it right, you're instantly transported to that era at the first notes, I have a complete moving picture on my mind of a night with my new love, sweet memory!
This really is one of the best interviews!! Great song!
Love his references to " the space" like reading a narrative you can 'image' yourself made by sound Thank you for this classic LRB 💗💖💥
I love Little River Band. So many great songs, yet they're hardly talked about.
So underrated.
They’re very underrated. I love them.
@@ProfessorofRock before LRB Graham had a big hit in Australia in 1972 called King's of the world. The band was called mississippi... You definitely need to hear that song. You won't be disappointed 👍
The original LRB have been completely robbed by the AHs masquerading as them today. Sad moment in rock history.
Agree!
They should be:
°Talked about
°Listened to
°Appreciated
°Receive recognition
Beautiful song, mind-blowing story!
70s radio gold that transitioned into the early 80s nicely and are still in my playlists today.
Agreed!
Nice! I love AM gold.
Saw the Little river band in the uk in the seventies ,absolutely brilliant
This is one of the best episodes ever. The amount of work that went into the song and the new ground that was being broken by these individuals truly created a masterpiece.
A classic that remains memorable to this day.
My thoughts exactly! But I think that with many of the Prof’s episodes, and then he raises the bar again. Kudos Adam.
What new ground did Little River Band break?
I always loved Little River Band cool changes another one of my favourite songs
I'm a metal head, Pantera, lamb of God, Sabbath, but I still love this song!
Awesome!
Can you imagine Pantera covering this, it would be so cool!
People who like any genre love this song.
Professionals at the top of their game. Awesome!
Cool Change is an underrated LRB classic. Anyone agree?
I agree!
Yes. Great song.
🙋♀️
I can't believe, being a yank from Detroit who's lived in Australia since 1979 (Vietnam Vet 101st Airborne) and for the first time I see your wearing a Detroit Rock Magazine T-Shirt ...Creem Magazine back in 1969 I think by Barry Kramer and Tony Reay. magazine's editor I think was Lester Bangs when I got back from Nam... Here I still have mine from 1972! ... thinking I was unique here in Oz ... another dream destroyed. I saw Little River Band in Michigan in 1977 I think ... hell I'm Old ...cut me some slack ... LOL
Merry Christmas for tomorrow champ!
Hopefully it will be a warm day.☃️
@@reallynotyourbusiness1659 It was a hot one today here in Sydney... Have a good Christmas...I have to admit, AC/DC collections along with Detroit Motown records and Ann Arbor's Bob Seger still rule my collection (sometimes Grand Funk -when I'm alone) I am old...LOL .... Jimi Hendrix-was our pass-word in Vietnam since he was a Screaming Eagle (101st)
@@airbrushken5339 haha, I'm in Sydney as well.
You're a little bit older but not by much..
You might be an American....band.
But av a good one..
Look after urself.
@@reallynotyourbusiness1659 You too ... Merry Christmas ... sadly all my Australian Vietnam Veterans have passed ... mostly Agent orange .... since the 1984 Royal commission on the effects were brushed aside ... I had hope all 7 of them would get lucky ... I used to spend this time during this with their families coming to my place on Boxing Day...I'd do a 4th of July BBQ, Ribs, Bake Beans and potato salad .... they even got me to March on ANZAC day in 1983 and we even partied once at the "Jolly Frog" (I think ... again I'm old...) We saw the "short round" and Drunk; "Rose Tattoo"... they asked me what I thought... I responded he's f**king drunk ... yeah, that's why he's cool"? I also saw AC/DC after Bon had died ... it was sad as the "Bag Pipe" flick sold me on Bon... back in the day ... love your posts.
Another one of my favorite kick back songs back in the day.
One of my favorite songs of all time
Love LRB and Goble is a good interview. He likes to talk and has a lot of interesting things to say. for those of you who don't know the story of how they lost their name there is a great Goble interview by John Beaudoin of Rock History Music on You Tube and also an Australian 60 minutes interview of Goble, Birtles and Shorrock. They trusted their management and it backfired on them. Glenn Shorrock is also one of the best pop/rock vocalists of any era. Guy has a great voice! they should be in the R&R HOF also.
Really good band and song. Nice job Dr Bob.
That's my favorite song by them
A classic for sure...
Fantastic..
I was 5 years old in 1978, and this is one of the first songs I remember hearing. Driving in the station wagon with my mom, hearing this song on light rock radio…
And what a great interview!
Thanks Sean!
My mom made friends with one girl in her 4th grade class that year and they remain friends to this day! That’s the magic of 1978. 🥰
The vocals are one of my favorite of any song.
Best Australian artists in my view; 1927 (very successful there but not elsewhere), Crowded House, Icehouse, Men At Work, Colin Hay, INXS and Mental As Anything. 1927 album 'Ish' from 1989 is brilliant. Colin Hay's Looking for Jack 1987 is a superb solo debut. Icehouse singles Crazy, 'My Obsession', 'Great Southern Land' and 'Electric Blue' showcase what a talented band they are. Neil Finn for Crowded House is a genius; they released so many great albums and earworm singles. Recently he replaced Lindsay Buckingham in Fleetwood Mac. Special mention for Midnight Oil and Peter Garratt. 'Beds Are Burning' has not lost any of its power with the emotional punch it delivers in condemning theft of Aboriginal land and the egregious injustices meted out to the original inhabitants of that great country.
Midnight Oil
Neil Finn, is actually NZ
@@ProfessorofRock He and his brother Tim are from New Zealand. Crowded House formed in Australia in 1985. Two of the band were Australian.
The Divinyls, AC/DC…
all good points; I always doubted the wisdom in Hay naming his album Looking for Jack, after Farnham already released Whispering Jack in 1986; bizarre?
Wasn't 1927 basically the carcass of Moving Pictures, with Eric replacing Alex Smith?
Love this band and he breaks this tune down!
Love this song, its so mellow.
Well I was miles off, I thought it might be 'Beds Are Burning' by Midnight Oil. Not sure when it was released but definitely too late. Its one of my favourites though.
late 80s!
I thought it was Lost in Love by Air Supply!
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 or... All Out of Love!
Great great song. Thank you for sharing the story behind the music.
I’m an Australian and LRB have been with me all my life and Reminiscing is one of my all time favourite songs to sing. I’m 52 now and this group is up with the best, like the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac. Second to none harmonies. LRB does not exist without Goble, Birtles and Shorrock.
An all time great track
Another good one Professor. My dad listened to them when I was a kid. Lonesome loser is one of my favorites.
Great song!
I love Lonesome Loser and Lady and The Other Guy.
“Beaten By The Queen Of Hearts Everytime”
I love that song and the band, did not know they are Australian
I love that song Reminiscing! 1978 was a great year for me as a kid - that song was one of my personal favorites as a little boy hearing it on the radio- along with Grease and the soundtrack , and the Kenny Loggins hit with Stevie Nicks “Whenever I Call You Friend”
It was a diverse year for music with Disco, Kiss, Van Halen, LRB, Grease, what a time.
@@ponzo1967 awesome year indeed
Awesome one hit wonders too like Hot Child In The City By Nick Gilder
@@ponzo1967 the TV show The Incredible Hulk came out that year - as a 7 year old boy that year I was a huge fan of the Hulk
One teacher at my school who graduated high school in 1978 told me she watched Grease at the drive-in theater immediately after graduation!
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 loved that song Grease by Franky Valli - Big hit in 1978 ! Along with Donna Summer’s Last Dance from the 1978 movie TGIF and the Donna Summer 1978 song MacArthur Park too
One of my favorites. My first concert was Little River Band in 1981
Cole Porter I've commented on how great of a writer he was previously.
One of the greats!
@@ProfessorofRock George M Cohan also
My grandparents grew up with him.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Hey Silly Lilly 👋So did I you little Bobby Soxer! How are you my friend ?☺
George M Cohan sang "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy!" Sing with me!
It’s a perfect song in every way
One of my favourite bands of all time , growing up in Australia in that time was simply amazing, thanks for recognising a true legend of a band.
Great song! Reminds me of being a kid in the summertime.
I was in High school and working at my home town’s local drugstore (all around store) seemingly always in the back room filling bags of ice for the liquor section. The radio on the loudspeaker could be heard back there and The Little River Band was absolutely in their heyday. This song puts me right back to that time when I was young and didn’t care about tomorrow, just scooping ice and nodding my head to the music. Great song.
One of the most requested Australian songs by an Australian band at gigs in Australia (almost to the point of ad nauseam) is by the band Cold Chisel and the song is Khe Sanh.
I personally prefer many other Australian bands and acts, but it has to be said that Cold Chisel wrote some of the best songs ever to come out of Australia. It’s odd they never blew up overseas.
Honestly, never knew they were Australian. Love their music. It's so chill and just fun, happy music. Thanks for another interesting & educational episode.
It's so memorable.
I thought they were 🇺🇸
I was also surprised to hear they are Australian. They sound like typical American soft rockers of that era.
@@alexcncmacsalcar7324 LRB are more like typical of Aussie soft rockers of the time. They just happened to easily slide into what was also happening in America
Bass player was the only american
I was at a Little River Band concert many years ago. Glen Frey from The Eagles joined them on stage - I think he genuinely meant it when he said to the audience LRB were the greatest vocal harmony band in the world.
Dean, was it one of the Expo 1988 gigs in Brisbane?
@@thedys70 Aha, it certainly was! You remember too. Proud of that moment was I.
@@deancooling3480 i'm sure i saw some footage on youtube years ago of that 1988 gig?
@dean cooling I spent so much time at Expo. I had a staff pass so could get in any time including after hours.
The best harmonies. Love LRB. Unfortunately I never got to see them live.
Little River Band is just so easy to listen to and love. Thank you for this and please continue with the fabulous content 🌈🐦
Reminiscing by Graeham Goble
How could you not love this song? This has been one of my favorite songs since I was a little kid. I never tire of it.
Same. 100% phenomenal.
Great episode, I have always been a big fan of LRB and their wonderful songs. For me, Cool Change is one of my all-time favorites with some lyrics that just make me smile...."the albatross and the whale they are my brothers"......absolute gold!!
Yes, there is a magnificence and majesty about that track.
Great music I loved LRB❤
What a great song. You just made me love it even more. I have to say, I love the way you interview people. You let them talk and tell their story without interrupting. It's very refreshing.
This is my all time favorite song. Ever since I heard it on the radio during my early 20s. It became one of my top spotify songs for many years. I wish to own a physical copy of the song (vinyl) someday. This song just takes me back to a memory I never even had. The lyrics, the instrumental, the harmonies-just everything about it is so perfect. It has everything that some of today’s music is lacking. I just can’t fully explain it into words well.
Awesome song and band. I enjoy when a song tells a story. Many of the great artist have songs that tell a story and some the entire album is a story. Just another thing that is lost to the past. Be safe all.
Awesome back story and an amazing song! Thank you so much!
I'm an Aussie, watched LRB on Countdown. When it was released, I absolutely loved it as a teenager. I was also brought up on musicals and music of the 1930s and 40s. This is such an elegant work. It's my favourite LRB song, still ranks as one of my favourite songs.
God I love this tune