In 1987, number 1 this week in the US charts was Billy Vera and the Beaters with the song "At this Moment". Don't ask me what it was, I have no clue! But here is a live version of it:
YouTube was forced by MTV to remove its video, so the only video I found is one sung by Tom Jones and actually that's at least as good! Click the following link to watch it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEnqHAELL94
Though I might be wrong, I'm quite sure this song never reached Europe and even in the US, its success was not that easy...
Actually the song was written in the seventies already, but no one wanted to record it! The song was only recorder 10 years later and even then it stay quite unknown... So how come this song finally reached the top?!? Thanks to television's magic!
In 1982 started the show that will reveal Michael J.Fox : "Family Ties". The success of this show will grow up from year to year until 1989. One day the producer asked to use the song in one of the episodes... In 1986's first show, the song is used where Michael J.Fox loses his girlfriend... and that's exactly what the song is about! NBC received tons of mails asking details about that song. And that's the way this song finally hit the top of US charts.
Nevertheless, this success didn't really help Billy Vera and the Beaters to become real big stars... Since then, they continue to do what they were doing before and that they really like, I mean play in L.A. area clubs where they still have their loyal lovers...
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