NO, NO -- I ACTUALLY LIKED THIS ONE!

And still do.  Mostly because it was already looping out of 'heavy rotation' on the AM dial and it was a few years before I started listening to Cincinnati FM stations (which spent far more time making me want to vomit every time I heard Zeppelin or Pink Floyd than anything released before 1975).

There's something strange and cool about those southern, mildly progressive bands -- Head East, these guys, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Dr. Hook -- that, if not overdone, catches the ear and can even move you, if you're not quite paying attention.  Jackie Blue is one of the songs I've heard for so long, I don't even remember when I first heard it.   It was released in 1974, when I was nine or ten years old, so it was probably on WKRC when I discovered that the station played pop music at night.  Good tune, and I got lucky enough not to be made sick of it.

What were the odds of that?