There’s always been bands that had some part of their success because they – a little or a lot- sounded like other bands. The Beatles and Badfinger. The Beatles and a band called the Knickerbockers with a 1965 hit song called “Lies”. “Oh Sheila” was a hit for the band Ready For the World that had a sound like Prince. An R&B singer named Fontella Bass sounded a whole lot like Aretha Franklin with a 1965 hit called “Rescue Me” – Greta Van Fleet sounds eerily like Led Zeppelin. So did the 80s band Kingdom Come.
And I always kind of wonder what happened to a band. How did they go from having hits to having sorta hits, not really being a band anymore. Did they burn out. Fade away? Get taken advantage of? Dropped by the record company. Implode?
In this podcast, we revisit three bands that had hits – big hits – in part because the albums they made sounded a little – or a lot like a more successful band. Not that it made them bad. But that’s the truth. Let’s dig into the careers of Quarterflash, The Outfield, and John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band.
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