The summer of 1979 brings back great memories for me. It did start out as a disco summer with songs like "Ring My Bell" and "Bad Girls" ruling the charts. But then "My Sharona" by the Knack cut through the airwaves like a breath of fresh air and I think that one song pretty much fueled the infamous "Disco Demolition Night" in Chicago.
Seems like so long ago now but that summer I pretty much came of age (I was 17) and I could write an entire book on what happened to me that long, hot summer.
Then came the fall and I got into New Wave (Police, Cars, Talking Heads, etc.) and enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on October 29th - just about a week before the hostages were taken in Iran.
Favorite song from that summer was "Drivers Seat" by Sniff 'n' The Tears.
“Driver's Seat” is a favorite of mine as well. I met Benjamin Orr of the Cars twice, seemed like a good dude, no rock star ego. Hopefully, he's smiling somewhere in Heaven.