As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

#136 The Edge Of The World – Sonia Dada (1992)


 
I bought Sonia Dada’s self-titled debut CD (used, for $2.99) based on their catchy (if ungrammatical) ditty “You Don’t Treat Me No Good”, which got quite a bit of airplay on WHFS and was revived in 2010 by Jerrod Niemann. Retitled “Lover, Lover”, the surprisingly faithful cover went to #1 on Billboard’s country charts. The original actually hit #1 in Australia, where the band had considerably more success than in the U.S.
 
“The Edge Of The World” is even better, a fantastic soul ballad that really should be revived, although I doubt that anyone else could come up with a version that’s better than the original.
 
My copy of the CD lists “Daniel Laszlo” as the songwriter for both tracks – he’s actually the writer or co-writer of all 12 tracks – and as a member of the band. The band’s Wikipedia page and official web site, however, list “Daniel Pritzker” as the band’s co-founder and primary songwriter, with no reference to “Laszlo”. I did track down a couple of websites that indicated that Pritzker used Laszlo as an alias, at least at the beginning of the band’s career. None provided any explanation, but my theory is that Pritzker felt that his status as an heir to the Hyatt hotel chain might have damaged his rock cred. (As of the date of this posting, Forbes listed his net worth at $2.1 billion.)
 

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