Today HERC begins a new daunting daily feature, one he hopes you can find a few minutes a day to peruse. In featuring an album a day, HERC's goal is not to flaunt his hipster cred or his coolness. He's simply writing about his favorite albums
On Easter Morning 1977 (1978?), HERC found this 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 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 version 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, the album laid unplayed and HERC never bought it on compact disc. 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 Audio Archives here at the Hideaway, HERC came across the album again and was pleasantly surprised to see it is available in its entirety via Spotify. 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 are performed in the videos on this post. HERC's favorite song on the album is the one below.
DOUBLE BONUS: Two earlier Leo Sayer videos, from 1973 and 1974 respectively:
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