#music #charts #musicsky
#70sMusic #OnThisDate #YachtRock
"If You Leave Me Now" by Chicago was the number one song on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Chart on this date 50 years ago, in 1976. It spent a total of 21 weeks on the chart:
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#yachtrock — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #yachtrock, aggregated by home.social.
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Raidio Tony - R2026D
"Guitar-driven rock, heartfelt stories, and a few unexpected musical adventures—an album made for the joy of music and the connections it creates."
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Ahoy! I'm playing Yacht Rock if you'd like to tune in!
https://twitch.tv/newfangledhifi
#twitch #liveStream #live #music #yachtRock #DJ #80s #70s #retro
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♬〜 Steely Dan - Home At Last 💿Aja
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♬〜 Boz Scaggs - Lowdown 💿Silk Degrees
#ClassicRock #Pop #Soul #YachtRock #BlueEyedSoul #NowPlaying -
♬〜 Steely Dan - Babylon Sisters 💿Gaucho
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Noonzy - Plan Is Bad. Kleine Zettelchen mit kurzen Infos, Notizen, etc zieren wohl hunderttausende Monitore, Küchenschränk......
#Noonzy#Alben #DreamPop #ElektroPop #IndiePop #YachtRock
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📌 #1 Added to playlist:
"Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Atti..." by Jimmy Buffett
#70sMusic #Throwback #YachtRock
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It's past midnight in most of the USA, so I guess I can post the Jam of the day "gulf and western" #YachtRock classic: Jimmy Buffets "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes" for @[email protected]
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Chris Andrews a.k.a. Kris Ryder MONDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO: “Lost in a Strange Vibration” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lurnsb5q_84
#chrisandrews #krisryder #yachtrock #synthpop #dominicbugatti #frankmusker #queen #brianmay #synthesizer #BillyLyall #AlanParsons #Pilot #BayCityRollers #christopherneil #aha #sheenaeaston #twiggy #celinedion #sciencefiction #lostinspace #johnnyjblair #britpop #singersongwriter #NewWave #europop #vibration #chillout #vocals #keyboard -
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My Turning Point - I Want Out
"a stadium rock anthem slow burn of quiet anger exploding into cathartic euphoria"
#rock #indierock #classicrock #rockanthem #stadiumrock #anthem #euphoricrock #stadiumanthem #dadrock #yachtrock #divorceddadrock #music
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Da Yacht Rock im Moment omnipräsent ist, hole ich meine Doobie Brothers-Lp raus und höre nostalgiegeflutet "What a Fool Believes" heute Abend 🎵 #yachtrock
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Pietra miliare ⭐
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🔗 Storbyens små oaser
📅 2-3-2012
🏠 1977 (Metronome)
#️⃣ Folkrock Funkrock Softrock Yachtrock
Il disco che rivelò il geniale cantautore danese, fra eclettismo stilistico [...]
a cura di Federico Romagnoli
#Ondarock #MusicianSky #MusicSky #Music
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♬〜 Steely Dan - Home At Last 💿Aja
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Drop It Like It's Yacht (Rock)
Come listen to some excellent yacht rock for at least the next few hours! Great work and lurk vibes.
https://live.newfangled.channel
#music #dj #radio #yachtRock #radio #owncast #live #liveStream
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Christopher Cross ft. BBC Concert Orchestra – Sailing
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Spending my morning, after accidentally sleeping in later than usual, blasting the SiriusXM "Yacht Country" station which is the country companion to Yacht Rock. Basically soft and chill country music from the 70s and 80s. I'm digging it.
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Live now: Drop It Like It's Yacht (Rock)
Hours of yacht rock for your listening enjoyment.
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Lee Vogt’s VIDEO OF THE WEEK “Take Me In Your Arms” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Ap-OeSpeQ
#arms #love #union #leonardcohen #randynewman #nilsson #johnstewart #yachtrock #softrock #littleriverband #pablocruise #christophercross #singersongwriter #leevogt #jimhelman #johnnyjblair #berkeley #california #alameda #vocalharmony #marilynmonroe
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♬〜 Steely Dan - A Horse in Town 💿Charlie Freak
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Christopher Cross Sings “Sailing”
Listen to this track by singer-songwriter, guitarist, and soft rock doyen born Chris Geppert, now better known as Christopher Cross. It’s “Sailing”, a smash single off of his equally smashy 1979 self-titled debut album. That record won an armful of Grammys, including Best Album, Best Song (this one), and Best New Artist. This single was the second from the record, released in May of 1980, and gaining a number one chart position on the Billboard Top 100 by June. By then, the album was well on its way to multiplatinum status, with its singles becoming radio staples across a spectrum of formats from easy listening to top forty.
For years after the album’s release and likely because of the subject matter of this very song, Christopher Cross became identified as an exemplar of a certain strain of pop music; yacht rock. The producers, engineers, and musicians on the scene in California by the mid-Seventies to the early-Eighties called this distinct brand of soft rock music by another name—The West Coast Sound. This musical subset is known today for its meticulously clean production, earnest lyrics, and slickly streamlined arrangements. It’s also defined by the approach producers took in the studio in working with session musicians known for their quick study and instrumental precision.
One of those musicians was keyboardist Michael Omartian who also served as producer and arranger on Christopher Cross and “Sailing”. One of his highlights as an instrumentalist on this track is the delicate piano part Omartian lays down in the middle section, standing as one of the most celebrated and evocative instrumental breaks of the period. Full of gentleness and lyricism, it’s another striking example of how an instrumental part can help convey emotional undercurrents in a song’s lyrics—in this case, peacefulness, contentment, safety, and serenity—that enables the song to communicate with listeners on multiple levels at once.
Besides Omartian’s sympatico playing and production skills, the high calibre of musicianship on display all around, and the lushness of the arrangements, the song’s thematic open-endedness may also explain its wide appeal. Listeners seemed to pick up on the emotions conveyed in the song whether they were into sailing themselves or not. “Sailing” is about escaping the world for a while in search of peace, a subject widely covered in modern pop music, but also in folk music that goes back even farther. Even if you don’t know a bow from a stern, the need to find solace away from worry and struggle is very relatable.
In interviews at the time, Cross stated that “Sailing” was more metaphorical than literal anyway, with the miracle-working canvas mentioned in the lyrics being either that of a sailor’s or an artist’s. Yet besides the fluidity of the meaning, “Sailing” was a personal statement, too. The song came from a memory of his teen years when life at home with an alcoholic father was not easy. The impulse to escape and to find solace and peace of mind wasn’t an abstract for him then. During a painful period in his life, Christopher Cross needed the care and guidance of a trusted friend.
He wrote “Sailing” with such a friend in mind; Al Glasscock, who was a kind of father figure slash older brother to him during this tumultuous period. Among other things, Glasscock took a young Chris on his small sailboat for sojourns on San Antonio’s Canyon Lake. On closer inspection, the narration on this song includes the voice of an older man speaking to a younger one, coaxing him to embrace another world that’s gentler and more forgiving than his present, troubled one.
The canvas can do miracles/Just you wait and see/Believe me …
In this respect, “Sailing” is in part a love song between friends as an older one sees a chance to free a younger one from the pain he’s experiencing. It’s about a close bond of friendship that feels familial. It’s also about experiencing the feelings of safety and belonging the narrator had always heard about but had never encountered himself. It catches the moment in which a young person realizes that things can be different and better in the realization that they deserve much more from all their relationships than they’ve experienced before.
The criticisms of the yacht rock genre as it’s become known are many. It’s too slick on the surface to be very deep or artistically worthy. It’s contrived and calculated, paying no respect to the unrefined emotions we all feel and hardships that real people face. It’s mellow and at ease because it comes from a place of privilege. It’s over-earnest and warmed-over hippy sentiment repackaged and financed by yuppie money. It escapes into fantasy instead of meeting the world head-on. Maybe it’s also complacent or even dishonest. It’s just not very punk rock.
“Sailing” challenges those spurious and generalized assumptions. As mellow and sonically refined as it is, this song deals in powerful themes common to the human experience, communicated in multifaceted ways. It certainly is a song of escape, without a doubt. It’s also rooted in painful personal history, and genuine gratitude. It is the product of an artist who reached back into his troubled past to draw all of the good out of it so he could put it into his music to bring peace of mind to anyone who hears it. For the most part, that was how the song was received and is still received today.
The early Eighties moved fast when it came to what was popular and then, very suddenly, what wasn’t. After another smash hit in “Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do)” in 1981, Christopher Cross felt the brunt of that shift. This roughly corresponded with the arrival of MTV, crowding the pop music field with new faces and new sounds. Yet, “Sailing” remained in the public consciousness well past that era. It was covered by N’Sync by the end of the 1990s. It’s been more recently sampled by The 1975.
Today, “Sailing” is celebrated across the generations by those who hear the emotional nuances beneath its smooth surfaces. It’s still full of gratitude as a song about finding a source of personal connection and inner peace in a tumultuous world. As much as we need songs of rage, we also need ones that remind us of what the point of all our raging should be; a sense of serenity and of connection, safety, and belonging for everyone.
Christopher Cross is an active musician today. You can learn about his recent activities including shows and new music at christophercross.com.
To learn more about this song and the inspiration behind it, read this article from Texas Monthly, Texas being Christopher Cross’ home state. In addition to the song’s origins, the piece touches on why the appeal of yacht rock seems to be so enduring; that it is aural comfort food for the kids who heard it coming out of their parents’ radios during a simpler time—a source of the very comfort this song is all about.
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#Questlove interviews #ChristopherCross, and it's a pretty damn good set:
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Chris Andrews a.k.a. Kris Ryder SONG OF THE WEEK! “I Don’t Want to Fuss With You” https://timchrisandrews.bandcamp.com/track/i-dont-want-to-fuss-with-you
#chrisandrews #krisryder #mofoster #bugatiandmusker #dominicbugati #frankmusker #yachtrock #newwave #synthpop
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♬〜 Airplay - Nothin' You Can Do About It 💿Airplay
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Yacht Rock Summer Party vibes! Tune in if you need a soundtrack for your summer party or are just looking for some chill vibes.
https://twitch.tv/newfangledhifi
#dj #music #yachtRock #AOR #70s #80s #retro #radio #nowPlaying #streaming #live #liveStream #twitch
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Now Playing: Boz Scaggs – Silk Degrees
#NowPlaying #NowSpinning #Vinyl #Music #YachtRock #BozScaggs
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Ran across this old screenshot and posting here for the record.
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Olivia Rodrigo mentions #yachtrock on her new album. Starting my campaign to educate the eldest in smooth music.
“I like your big sister
Shе has your same face
And I tried to win hеr
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addicted to this #yachtrock song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD8wQm-V-gA
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Brought my mother back to Connecticut today. One of the roads that crosses the interstate has a sign for Baker Street.
Have had the saxophone from the song stuck in my head since driving under it.
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Meer und Musik gehören zusammen, bis das Herz schmilzt. Wir stellen unsere maritime Lieblingsmusik vor – heute den Sommerhit des französischen Pop-Duos Papooz.
#Papooz #UlyssesandtheSea #Yachtrockhttps://floatmagazin.de/dinge/im-lehnstuhl-ueber-die-sieben-weltmeere-segeln-ulysses-and-the-sea/
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@bmovieenema/116771168114914888
#Cheerleaders, #KungFu & #YachtRock : does it get more #1980s #BMovies than that?
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My Turning Point - I Want Out
"a stadium rock anthem slow burn of quiet anger exploding into cathartic euphoria"
#rock #indierock #classicrock #rockanthem #stadiumrock #anthem #euphoricrock #stadiumanthem #dadrock #yachtrock #divorceddadrock #music
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haha wow, never thought I’d use these two hashtags together: #SantaFe #YachtRock
