Gary Wright ~ Love Is Alive 1975 Extended Meow Mix

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I got a request for this one and here it is.

Gary Wright was born April 26, 1943 in Creskill, New Jersey. Did you know that he was a child actor? At the age of 7 he was appearing on "Captain Video And His Video Rangers" based in New York City in addition to the TV and radio commercials. Soon Broadway came calling and he landed a role in the 1954 production of "Fanny", notable for Florence Henderson in the lead role. They both appeared on the Ed Sullivan show to promote the play.

Gary learned keyboards and then joined several rock bands while a student of the Tenafly Hight School and as Gary & Billy released "Working After School" in 1960.

He was not feeling confident about a future in music so he applied to become a doctor specializing in psychology while playing gigs at night. He eventually moved to Berlin to complete his studies. He gave up that career choice to become a professional musician in 1967 touring as a backing musician supporting Traffic and met Island Records founder Chris Blackwell who invited him to London to join the band Art composed of Mike Harrison and Mike Kellie.

They changed the name to Spooky Tooth and while they had a couple of albums chart in the US they were unable to get a commercial hit. By the time they released their third album the writing was already on the wall and Wright left Spooky Tooth in 1970.

Gary was chosen to play piano on George Harrison's 1970 opus "All Things Must Pass" that cemented his stature as a keyboardist and remained with Harrison. He reformed Spooky Tooth in 1972 composing a lion's share of the music and then broke up the band in 1974.

Signing with Warner Brothers as a solo act he began to work on his third solo album entitled "Dream Weaver" released in 1975. "Love Is Alive" was the first single issued and it tanked. The second single issued "Dream Weaver" caught the attention of US radio and the single quickly claimed th #2 spot on the chart for three weeks, thwarted by two #1 singles, The Four Seasons "December 1963 (Oh What A Night) and Johnnie Taylor's "Disco Lady".

Then "Love Is Alive" was re-promoted and it repeated the #2 charting but this time spent two weeks there, unable to knock two more #1 songs Bee Gees "You Should Be Dancing" and KC & The Sunshine Band's "(Shake Shake Shake) Shake Your Booty from the top of the chart. The album sold double platinum,

Gary never reached those heights again, but in 1981 his "Really Wanna Know You" reached #16 and was his last charting hit. From 1982 on he concentrated on movie soundtracks and his newfound interest in world music.

"Love Is Alive" was recorded by Chaka Khan as "My Love Is Alive" for her "I Feel For You" album in 1984. Judas Priest covered Wright's "Better By You, Better Than Me". Then hip hop began to sample "Dream Weaver", "Love Is Alive" and "Can't Find The Judge" by artists like Tone Loc, Mya, 3rd Bass and Dream Warriors.

Wright re-recorded "Dream Weaver" for the 1992 film "Wayne's World" which famously resurrected the song played every time Tina Carriere's character appeared in the film.

In 2014, Gary released his autobiography, "Dream Weaver: Music, Meditation, and My Friendship with George Harrison" and Warner Brothers released all of Wright's solo albums for digital download.

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This is a prime example of why I subscribed to this channel a few years ago... & why I'll never unsubscribe. Thanks for the *-cat food-* Meow Mix!

andyroid

I thank my father that he was the one who instructed me to listen to this kind of quality funk music❤

eduardotoledo

Turned 18 in 1975. Unforgettable music we had.

mr.bluebird

Thank goodness we have this music to enjoy and tap to the beat and relive in our minds even now at age 73 !

ViolaArenas

Bicentennial summer of 1976...11 yrs old remember hearing this on the radio nonstop...so many memories thank God I grew up in the BEST decade for music.

bqkmg

Im 58 now but remember my babysitters listening to this song ... I still listen to it even today. Love the remix ❤❤❤❤

austinwhitfield

Great memories of my childhood in the 70s are associated with this song when it was new on the radio, summer vacation, Saturday morning cartoons, then move on to American Bandstand, go outside grab my Brady Bunch cherry red bike strap my black and chrome RCA hand held radio with the five foot long chrome antenna on the handlebars of my bike and listen to songs on the radio when music like this was new . DJ thanks for refreshing my memories and beautiful joy to the world again with music 😎😎😎👍🏼👍🏼

reneaguilar

Great Music, great times... when it sounds good on an AM radio...it's eternal.

dougwilson

R.I.P., Gary Wright.
You left a part of you with us.

Zippydaclown

Thanks YOU TUBE, these hits take me to another time when life was so much better than today.

rexbalkcom

I remember sitting in my best friend's house when, I first heard this song! Summer of 75! Unfortunately, my best friend has passed away. The memories of that great summer will live in my heart and mind forever! I will never forget this song!

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