Gone Hollywood Top Ten: Hollywood (#7)

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Oops, it was supposed to be the Los Angeles song first today. Sorry, I already had the Hollywood song loaded. When you see who recorded it, you’ll understand why. I know John Roberts has heard this song. As for the rest of you, probably not. #7: Hollywood - Boz Scaggs John and I bear the distinction of being the only two people who saw the movie FM, or maybe who will admit to seeing it. And, coincidentally enough, we saw it for the same reason: the Linda Ronstadt concert footage. Thankfully, today you can see that footage on YouTube without having to deal with the horrors of a movie that co-star Martin Mull lamented “looked like it was edited with a blowtorch.” (The same can be said of the clip of Jimmy Buffett singing “Livingston Saturday Night”: watch the clip on YouTube, and skip looking for this movie!) So what does that have to do with this song? When Jeff Dugan (played by actor Michael Brandon, who, like everyone else in the film, was wasted talent-wise) slides into the studio right on time, the song he cues up and plays is…THIS ONE! This album was the follow-up to Boz Scaggs’ highly acclaimed Silk Degrees; and, like so many follow-ups to the “big selling classic album” in the 70s, it wasn’t nearly as good. Scaggs rebounded fabulously with Middle Man in 1980. This is not a bad album (this is the one about which Rolling Stone famously quipped, “Boz Scaggs is a little like sex and rock and roll: when he’s good, he’s great, and when he’s bad, he’s not all that bad”), but it was sandwiched between two career-highlight albums. Anyway, here’s another tribute to movie city. Dance your heart out. Hollywood Written by Boz Scaggs and Michael Omartian Recorded by Boz Scaggs From Down Two Then Left, 1977 HOLLYWOOD LYRICS: title You sure there’s not an uncle name of Barrymore?