Last night I dug out 36 Super Gold Hits for a listen. There were so many fantastic tracks on this double record K-Tel collection, that I kind of want to feature them all! I just might! Most I enjoyed unironically, however this one caught my ear for it's over the top melodrama. It takes so many movie-of-the-week plot lines and jams them into one heart-string plucking ballad.
Fair warning: This one might make you cry.
Just to review:
-The Blind Man is in the bleachers, as he is every game, hoping for his son to be a game winning hero
-Son is an underachieving benchwarmer
-It's the last game of the season, Friday night at home
-Kid gets called into the game, has the best game ever
-On the night his father died
Incredibly the world didn't call out for more songs like this one from David Geddes. The over the top schmaltz didn't propel him into a lenghty career. But it did chart into the top 20 in 1975. His biggest came just a few months earlier: another cheese-ballad about a shotgun wedding called "Run Joey Run", which was resurrected by Glee, for some melodramatic reason.
