Looking Glass – Behind The Hits
What if the DJ hadn’t played the wrong side?
Today I take a look at Brandy (You’re Fine Girl) by Looking Glass. The song tells the story of a musician torn between his love for a life at sea and his love for a barmaid. But the story of the record is that, it was the B-side of the single ‘Don’t It Make You Feel Good,’ and a Washington, DC area disc-jockey, Harv Moore, flipped it over and played Brandy instead. Quickly moving up the charts, it reach number one, and was the bands only hit.
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It was their biggest hit, but not their only one. They had a not-as-successful follow-up song “Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne”, which is played on The Lost 45s at least once a year, and host Barry Scott has interviewed the band’s frontman, Elliot Lurie.