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Badfinger: “Day After Day” Portuguese 7″ (1971)
Radio dee-jay Joe Causi started his tenure at New York City’s CBS FM in the later Oughts, right after I finished Stony Brook and dealt with life’s heaviest hits facing re-location and switching from job to job. Many a frigid Winter or, more likely, a sweltering Summer Saturday were spent recording and listening to him. His late-night shows would become some of the final-ever cassette dubs I’d make for myself. Whatever I could get my hands on to satisfy my Seventies kick via record stores or radio was within reach. The record stores had John Tropea, Phil Upchurch, Karla Bonoff, Roberta Flack, and Les McCann. What Joe Causi had were bonafide platinum and gold hits: KC & The Sunshine Band, Minnie Riperton, Love Unlimited Orchestra, and The Carpenters were only a pinch of what he played ad nauseum. These days I’ve been way over money-making hits and the constant repeat mentions of what’s considered monoculture. How many times are we going to revisit Brooklyn discos, bell bottoms, Charlie’s Angels, CHIPs, and lava lamps? Yet somehow and somewhere "Day After Day” was a hit that I haven’t heard in ages and recently re-discovered. That’s my ad nauseum. For me, it’s one of the sweeter moments of the (earlier) Seventies and Badfinger’s, too, amidst all the managerial, legal, and financial troubles and suicides. George Harrison played slide guitar and even produced it to a point before leaving it up to Todd Rundgren to finish it, not to mention with Leon Russell guesting on keys. What does it sound like to my ears, exactly? The shine of a young woman’s hair as she’s sitting on the rickety stoop or on her front yard’s patchy grass; observing the quiet on a baking 85* sunny spring day and not worrying about life’s personal ills around her.
