![]() Thomas has a terrific country voice, which he shows off to great effect here. Thomas’ 1968 recording of Hooked On a Feeling.ī.J. His emotions are just like an addiction – the satisfaction he gets is exactly like a high from drugs. The lyrics of Hooked On a Feeling describe a man who is completely infatuated with his girl. ![]() However, Always On My Mind really hit the big time in 1982 when Willie Nelson’s version reached #1 on the country charts and won Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best Country Song in 1983. That song was a big hit for Elvis Presley, becoming one of his most popular songs. We have come across James in an earlier blog post, as he co-wrote the song Always On My Mind. ![]() The song Hooked On a Feeling was written by Mark James. That song reached #5 on the Billboard pop charts. Thomas had his first big pop hit with Hooked On a Feeling. He had some initial success with country music before moving to the country-rock scene. Thomas, and then we will review covers by Blue Swede and by Jonathan King.īilly Joe (B.J.) Thomas was a country-rock singer who grew up in the Houston area. We will start with the original song by B.J. This is an enjoyable 70s pop song, with an interesting twist. "Working in a Coal Mine" actually sounds like Skifs is emulating Kenny Rogers, and new wave band Someone & the Somebodies did it much better on their Bops on the Head EP, leaving the listener asking the 64,000 dollar question, "What's the point?" Still, "Hooked on a Feeling" is classic camp, so they get to be a rock & roll footnote.Hello there! In this week’s blog we consider the song Hooked On a Feeling. Miller dueting on the cover of the First Edition's "Something's Burning." Bjorn Skifs might be able to sing on key more accurately than Kenny Rogers, but he isn't anywhere near as entertaining. The big problem with the album Hooked on a Feeling is that they didn't have Mrs. Miller was fun for ten minutes, and at least Nancy Sinatra and Sonny Bono had some sense of style. This is a parody record, but the joke's on Blue Swede because they bastardize important music and tanked their thankfully brief career in the process. Instead, they ripped Reed's "Rock & Roll" to shreds on the next album, and tinker with Burt Bacharach and Hal David so poorly here it is beyond travesty. Had they gone after "I Can Feel You" by the Addrisi Brothers and maybe "Sunday Morning" by Lou Reed, adding a hip and serious face, they would have been as cherished a memory as "Venus" by the Shocking Blue is. Side two is all covers: They take on Jose Feliciano Kenny Rogers & the First Edition by way of Mac Davis Lee Dorsey by way of Allan Toussaint Dionne Warwick and, of course, their other Top Ten, the dreadful re-working of the Addrisi Brothers' "Never My Love." The Association must have cringed, or laughed hardily, but had this group hired a consultant to give them a hip wardrobe and sense of musical style, they could have done some real chart damage. The Savage Rose and Brainbox were at least being themselves, Europeans staking their claim to a piece of the rock pie. They were trying too hard to be an American group. The group also provides evidence why Abba and Bowie became so popular while Blue Swede faded out of the picture rather quickly. It is so totally different from the other originals on side one that the band surprises with sparks of creativity - chameleon moves that give a hint they could have been capable of more. "Gotta Have Your Love" doesn't work, but what is intriguing is "Lonely Sunday Afternoon," a strange blend of Sonny Bono meets Lee Hazelwood on the other side of the world. Lead singer Bjorn Skifs collaborates with producer Bengt Palmers (he changed his name to Ben Palmers for the next disc) on a strange attempt at the Philly sound. This album is definitely bizarre, more so than the follow-up Out of the Blue, for this made-in-Sweden record shows what happens when someone other than David Bowie is copping the riffs. ![]() Should they have quit after this? Absolutely. Thomas hit is that - no, it isn't as sublime as the original, but for a novelty hit, it works. The significance of their rip of Jonathan King's arrangement of the B.J. ![]()
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