The Runner. Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Bass cover.

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Follow up to yesterday's cover, same song, very different.
From writer's Ian Thomas' facebook page;
'The Runner (1981) was written in my home studio after the great Terry Fox had to stop his run when his cancer returned. When it came time to record the song, Danny Lanois’ brother Bob asked me what I needed to record at their new studio in Hamilton on Grant Avenue. I requested a pile of gear and got a call a few days later from Bob, saying it was on order and would arrive within a couple of weeks. It was great not having to commute to Toronto and I booked the studio for a month for to record. I was in my element producing and engineering again and when I was out on the floor, Greg Roberts covered the engineering in the control room. Bob was a gracious host throughout, and Greg was just a delight to work with.
At one point, The Runner album was being considered by Arista records for release in the US. Even though they decided to take a pass, the legendary Clive Davis liked the song, and we got a call saying he wanted it for the new Manfred Mann recording. I thought they did an interesting take on the song, and it became a hit for them. In fact, their version ended up in two movies, The Philadelphia Experiment and First Born
While the royalty cheques were welcome, I think what pleased me the most was when my own version of The Runner was used in the Terry Fox Story many years later. When Terry’s gallant attempt at running across Canada was so brutally ended by the reappearance of his cancer and subsequent death, Canadians grieved collectively as a nation for the loss of such an exceptional young man. His legacy lives on to this day'.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band are an English rock band formed by South African musician Manfred Mann. Their hits include covers of Bruce Springsteen's "For You", "Blinded by the Light" and "Spirit in the Night". After forming in 1971 and with a short hiatus in the late 1980s/early 1990s, the Earth Band continues to perform and tour.
The Earth Band combines the stylistic approach of progressive rock with Mann's jazz-influenced Moog synthesizer playing and keen ear for melody. Beside producing their own material, a staple of the band's music and live performances from the beginning has been also relying on covers of songs by other modern pop/rock artists, notably Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, in their progressive rock style.
In 1984 the band issued the single "Runner", a cover of the song by Ian Thomas, which had been written in response to cancer sufferer Terry Fox and his run across Canada for cancer awareness. Fox had succumbed to the cancer before finishing. This version featured Chris Thompson on lead vocals and Mick Rogers on backing vocals. The song was a non-LP single in the UK but was included on the US release of 1982's Somewhere in Afrika. It was a top 40 hit in both Canada and the US and was used during ABC's broadcasting of the 1984 Summer Olympics and in the film The Philadelphia Experiment. At 22 on the Hot 100 it was their biggest hit since "Blinded by the Light" and was the band's second highest-charting song, as well as their final US/UK chart single.
On this day in music history; 1950 - The US music show Your Hit Parade premiered on NBC-TV. The program, which featured vocalists covering the top hits of the week, had been on radio since 1935. It moved to CBS in 1958 but was canceled the following year, unable to cope with the rising popularity of Rock 'n' Roll.
1984 - Session drummer and former member of Derek and the Dominos, Jim Gordon, was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison after being found guilty of murdering his mother. It was after he was arrested that he was properly diagnosed with schizophrenia and, although at the trial the court accepted that Gordon had acute schizophrenia, he was not allowed to use an insanity defense because of changes to California law.