I JUST CLOSED MY EYES AGAIN ...

Another one that was actually pretty cool until I'd heard it hundreds of thousands of times.  Neat-o ethereal keyboard stuff from before it became just another Crackerjack-box-prize musical phenom.

Gary Wright is a popster with a pedigree, too.  Remember Spooky Tooth?  It was one of those British incubator bands that birthed other artists and bands, though there weren't really any big Spooky Tooth hits.  They were a Yardbirds-type Brit blues-rock project.  Greg Ridley also worked in Humble Pie -- with Steve Marriott and Peter Frampton -- and on Frampton's solo work.  Mick Jones later formed Foreigner.   Guitarist Luther Grosvenor was later in Stealer's Wheel and Mott The Hoople.   Spooky Tooth is the first legitimate music biz credit for most of them.  And then there was Gary Wright, of course, who worked with George Harrison on the classic All Things Must Pass before essaying the solo career that produced such songs as Dream Weaver and Love Is Alive.

Shame that most people don't know any more about him than that he recorded Dream Weaver, and they became abundantly sick of hearing it on the radio in the mid-seventies, ain't it?   And with a release of new music in 2000, his ride ain't over yet.  Better him than Alan O'Day.