❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵

Day 20: A song from the 90's
(Cyndi Lauper + The Chieftans, 2 points = 34)

One of my favorite bands are The Hooters (shoutout to @Saltfountain!), fronted by Rob Hyman and Eric Bazillian. Even if you've never heard of them, or their band, you've most likely heard other songs they've (co-)written and produced, like Cyndi Laupers "Time After Time", or Joan Osbornes "(What If God Was) One Of Us?"

In the late 90's, in a fit of inspiration, they wrote a little album called Largo. An exposé of Americana music, based on Dvorak's 9th symphony, it's a musical masterpiece that somehow never found its way into the mainstream. Songs from the album have been performed by bands like The Who and Carole King and is unanimously lauded by the greats, and yet it is largely unknown! A great, great shame.

Cyndi Lauper was late in her pregnancy when Rob asked her to come in to the studio to lay down the lyrics for a little blues tune he'd written for the album. She came in, aced it in one take, and it is in my opinion one of the best vocal performances of her career. Her improvised outro sends chills up my spine.

Ever wanted to hear Cyndi sing the blues?
It's fucking phenomenal.

Cyndi Lauper - White Man's Melody

 
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