Thursday 1 June 2023

By Request, Patti Dahlstrom's 4 (1972 to 1976)













Again a very beautiful woman indeed.  Like I always say, as beautiful music is, there's nothing like a beautiful woman, for us, well for some of us I should properly say ('stay woke!').

Discogged here. The music is squarely simple singer songwriter, nothing unusual or surprising in terms of melodies, chord changes, or even lyrics, recalling mostly Carole King to me, with its use of grand piano and occas. the guitars. Some quite heartful songs of course. The bio as follows:

American singer, songwriter, and teacher, born March 24, 1947 in Houston, TX. Although her own albums were unsuccessful, some of her songs had been recorded by other artists (particularly Helen Reddy's version of Dalhstrom's "Emotion," a #22 Billboard hit in 1974).

Personally I wasn't crazy about that song. From the third album, When it comes to you is very typical diatonic major chords and in fact with the kind of changes you'd have heard any day on AM pop radio back in 1974 (eg Carly Simon, Olivia N-J, or the Bacharach type songs, etc.):



A track from the final album called Fool's Gold is interesting in the tritonal part of the verse chord structure (in this case, the tritonal C sharp on a G chord goes up to the D or the 5th), then it nicely modulates for the chorus down into D:



A nice track... should've been a hit back in the day?






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