Genre: American pop/rock
Places I remember: $5 from Viking Second Hand store in Woodville, although, annoyingly I found another copy after I'd bought it at Vinyl Countdown for $1. Doh!
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Baby Come Back
Gear costume: Come On Out, Goodbye, This Time I'm In It For Love
Active compensatory factors: Hilariously out of fashion in 1977, with its synths by Michael Omartian and soft rock sensibilities, Player's finest moment is the number one chartbuster: Baby Come Back.
Having owned that single for decades, I couldn't resist getting the album recently to see if maybe there were any other worthy Player tracks. And there are!
Come On Out is catchy, so is Goodbye and the second hit from their debut This Time... got their career off to a flyer.
Just goes to show that the charts in the late 70's, dominated by the Bee Gees and bands like Player, bore no relation to the punk/ new wave groundswell happening elsewhere.
Where do they all belong? Not quite one hit wonders, but nearly.
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