Help!!!
For years, I have tried to remember the name and artist for a pop-rock song I believe was from the 1970s.
As memory recalls, it was meant as an anti-drunk-driving message. Part of the chorus went:
“Might as well go for a soda, nobody hurts, nobody cries … Might as well go for a soda nobody drowns, nobody dies.”
Radio stations around here that pride themselves on having “deep-track” oldies don’t have a clue what I’m talking about.
The song kind of jammed. I’d like to get a copy.
It was Kim Mitchell. The lyrics can be found at http://www.cam.org/~gwhite/rockland/lyrakimb.htm#01
Enjoy,
derfel
That was WAY too easy. Thanks, Lord
By the way,who the hell is Kim Mitchell? Is he Canadian by chance (because I once heard the song on the radio while in Toronto)? Was he ever in any other bands? Ever have any other hits? (Not that this was exactly a hit …)
Yeah, he was (is) Canadian. I remember him being fairly popular in the 80’s. Mostly crappy (radio friendly) rock/pop music, although he had a couple of hits. I don’t know if he was in any other bands, though.
derfel
A little off subject, but another excelenct anti-drunk-driving song from the 70’s is “That Smell”, by Lynyrd Skynyrd
I believe the Skynard song referred to is actually about drugs. I can’t recall anything in the song about alcohol. Maybe I should have read the lyrics before posting this. :-p
The ever insensitive, politically incorrect PitBullDawg. Political correctness is a disease. Cure it with the truth.
Regarding drinking comments in the song “That Smell”
How about…
“Whiskey bottles and brand new cars,
Oak tree you’re in my way”
and…
“One more drink Lord, might do the trick,
One hell of a price for you to get your kicks.”
(Or words close to that…)
There are three kinds of people: Those who can count and those who can’t.
Actually, that’s, “Just one more FIX, Lord, might do the trick.”
Presumably a reference to heroin. But you are right about the first “Whiskey bottles” part.
“I am a news-paper man, damn it! Come to the point with me, sir, or take your business elsewhere!” - T. Herman Zweibel, Publisher, The Onion
The other drink related line in “That Smell” is:
“one more drink fool will drown you”
How about “DOA,” by that immortal group of music-makers, Bloodrock?
THERE’S a tune that separates the men from the boys. And the heads from the shoulders.
Uke
back to the topic,
the artist in question is not kim mitchell.
it is a canadian band called max webster, with kim mitchell up front.
anyway…
what is essential is invisible to the eye -the fox
Umm, Kilgore. Maybe you should look at the page I posted up top. The album is Akimbo Alogo (1984) by Kim Mitchell. You can see his name written on the front of the picture of the album cover. Not Max Webster. Also, this page: http://www.cam.org/~gwhite/rockland/lyrmenu.htm
lists the album under Kim’s solo albums, not Max Webster.