On Easter Morning 1977 (1978?), HERC found Leo Sayer's Endless Flight album in his Easter basket. [It is one of three albums he remembers finding on Easter mornings.] He knew only two songs from it, his favorite song at the time "When I Need You" and the infectious "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" a favorite song of his from the previous year, but he was intrigued by the cover art as the guy with the 'fro looked a little like the Juan Luis Pedro Felipo de Huevos Epstein character on Welcome Back, Kotter to young HERC.
After repeated plays, the album grew on young HERC, and the songs became ingrained in his psyche. There was even a cover of the Supremes' "Reflections". Then he stopped listening to it. Cold turkey for reasons he can't remember if there even were reasons. For more than 20 years, Endless Flight sat unplayed and HERC never bought the compact disc when it was finally released in 1989. He did however pick up a greatest hits comp by Leo Sayer a few years back and played the three songs from Endless Flight (two of which went all the way to #1) over and over again, including them on playlist after playlist.
As he was renovating the HERChives here at the Hideaway recently, HERC came across the album again, and in short order, he ordered Endless Flight on CD and it is back in rotation. HERC suggests you listen to the album as a whole as it is not a bad listen - it's barely over thirty-seven minutes long, well produced, well played and Leo has a surprisingly wide vocal range - but if you're short on time, the hit singles will whet your whistle. HERC's favorite song on the album is "How Much Love".
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