Today’s Earworm
By Mitch Berg
The song that I can simply not stop humming today…
…is “Fine Fine Day” by Tony Carey.
Why this 1983 one-hit wonder (from a solo outing from the leader of another one-hit wonder, Planet P) would burble to the top of my head, I have no idea. But there it is.
It’s a fine, fine day for a reunion…
December 13th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
“First Day of Summer” (same album) made it to #33 in the Top 40.
Just saying’…
December 13th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
“First Day of Summer” (Same Album) made it to #33 in the Top 40.
Just sayin’
December 13th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
I remember “First Day…” – I played it at the radio station I was working at the time – but it was hardly a hit.
December 13th, 2006 at 6:01 pm
Tony Carey was the “leader” of Planet P in the same sense that Matt Johnson was the leader of The The or Declan MacManus was the leader of Elvis Costello.
I prefer “former Rainbow keyboardist”.
December 13th, 2006 at 8:03 pm
Tony Carey was the “leader” of Planet P in the same sense…
Yeah, true enough.
December 14th, 2006 at 6:03 am
I listen to that song from time to time. Even more, I enjoy a good listening session of the one studio album he did with Rainbow (along with the many live recordings from subsequent tour that have flooded the market in the past thirty years). “Rainbow Rising” is considered to be one of the greatest hard rock albums of all time, even surpassing Ritchie Blackmore’s earlier work with Deep Purple.
It might have been Blackmore’s (and Ronnie James Dio’s) band, but Carey’s keyboards gave that version of Rainbow a very distinctive sound.