MIDNIGHT BLUE

 

No smart-ass remarks.  Melissa Manchester has a great voice, and though this song ain't a sacred cow for me, I definitely can't fault the woman.  It was some of that overblown adult contemporary genrecide that now includes people like Celine Dion, but when you're a pre-teen girl, you lap that stuff up like attention from high school boys.  I would have, if I'd ever got any attention from any of them.  Lacking that, I had smarmy love songs on WKRC.  I mean, it's probably just as well, but I spent lots of nights with a flashlight and an AM radio and Harlan Ellison.  Novels -- I say novels, that is.  I was way too tall for Harlan even then.