1981, I miss you so bad. I really do.

Beautiful song! Wish someone would sing it to me.

funkyslsistah said:

Beautiful song! Wish someone would sing it to me.

I wish a guy would sing it to me too.

Amazing how this mixed new wave and pop rock... Foreigner was ahead of its time. Lou Gramm's one of the greatest front men of all time. Powerful voice too.

Timmy84 said:

Amazing how this mixed new wave and pop rock... Foreigner was ahead of its time. Lou Gramm's one of the greatest front men of all time. Powerful voice too.

Your post reminded me of a song of Lou's that I liked from the 80's "Just Between You and Me." Playing it now.

My second favorite song by this band (my fav is "Feels Like The First Time").

Great synth work from Thomas Dolby.

Songfacts: I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't realize that you wrote that synth intro to Foreigner's "Waiting For A Girl Like You," which I think really makes the song. How did that all come about? That seems like sort of an odd kind of a place for you to end up, Foreigner appealing to a much different audience.

Thomas: Well, it happened before anybody had really heard of me. I was 19, in Paris working as a busker in the Metro. I had recorded some songs on a cassette and sent them to a music publisher in London called Zomba. And one of the artists in Zomba was Mutt Lange, the producer. He really liked the keyboard playing on my demos, and he was getting ready to finish up Foreigner 4 in a studio in New York. So he sent for me, and I flew out from New York. It was great to work with a top band and a top producer - I was very inexperienced in the studio. And I associated Foreigner with solid hard rock and AOR radio and things like that, but they said that they had a couple of really great ballads and that they wanted to take a different approach to them.

So working with Mutt, I worked out that synth intro to "Waiting For A Girl Like You," which was, I think quite, daring for its time.

Songfacts: Sure, on mainstream music, and especially a group that's a guitar kind of a group.

Thomas: Absolutely. And so I think to be listening to commercial radio in 1981 or whenever it was and to hear 15 seconds of ambient music coming out on the front of the song was very unusual. A journalist said, "This is a radical approach for Foreigner, who's responsible for it?" They would see my name on the credits and go, "Well, who is this guy?" So I think that it actually contributed in large part to there being a receptive atmosphere for when I came out with my solo stuff.




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This song is amazing/

Adore this song

Excellent song.

theAudience said:

Great synth work from Thomas Dolby.

Songfacts: I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't realize that you wrote that synth intro to Foreigner's "Waiting For A Girl Like You," which I think really makes the song. How did that all come about? That seems like sort of an odd kind of a place for you to end up, Foreigner appealing to a much different audience.

Thomas: Well, it happened before anybody had really heard of me. I was 19, in Paris working as a busker in the Metro. I had recorded some songs on a cassette and sent them to a music publisher in London called Zomba. And one of the artists in Zomba was Mutt Lange, the producer. He really liked the keyboard playing on my demos, and he was getting ready to finish up Foreigner 4 in a studio in New York. So he sent for me, and I flew out from New York. It was great to work with a top band and a top producer - I was very inexperienced in the studio. And I associated Foreigner with solid hard rock and AOR radio and things like that, but they said that they had a couple of really great ballads and that they wanted to take a different approach to them.

So working with Mutt, I worked out that synth intro to "Waiting For A Girl Like You," which was, I think quite, daring for its time.

Songfacts: Sure, on mainstream music, and especially a group that's a guitar kind of a group.

Thomas: Absolutely. And so I think to be listening to commercial radio in 1981 or whenever it was and to hear 15 seconds of ambient music coming out on the front of the song was very unusual. A journalist said, "This is a radical approach for Foreigner, who's responsible for it?" They would see my name on the credits and go, "Well, who is this guy?" So I think that it actually contributed in large part to there being a receptive atmosphere for when I came out with my solo stuff.




Music for adventurous listeners

tA

Tribal Records

interesting. thanks.