Lee Ritenour feat. Eric Tagg - Is It You (lyrics)

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4th track from RIT (1981). With vocals by Eric Tagg, this jazzy, smooth-as-silk, yacht rock staple sailed to #15 on the Billboard pop chart and #27 on the soul chart. It also cruised to #15 on the Hot Adult Contemporary chart. Nice sailing, Captain Fingers!

But Tagg's falsetto is so mesmerizing I never really paid much attention to the lyrics—until now. So "is it my imagination" or do they tell a rather spooky, bodice-ripping, romantic tale worthy of an Anne Rice novel? Yeah, probably set somewhere in Romania. It was a dark and stormy night... or a foggy one at any rate. And a drop-dead gorgeous ingenue with nothing better to do than brave a vast forest teeming with vampires and werewolves (that part will have to be in the longer version) slinks around in a dark castle in her frilly Victorian glad rags—gradually shedding them of course—until she finds castle guy and tells him she thinks he's swell. Maybe this was Tagg's fantasy. Or maybe it's just an excuse for me to use more of those great pics I found while making the Steely Dan Gaslighting Abbie video. Either way, cheers!

~thatMimosaGrove

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Lyrics By – Bill Champlin, Eric Tagg
Music By – Lee Ritenour
Strings And Horns Arranged By – Jerry Hey

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Album Personnel:

LEE RITENOUR - Electric and acoustic guitars, vocoder vocals, guitar synthesizer
HARVEY MASON - LM-1 digital drums, percussion
DAVID FOSTER - Keyboards
DON GRUSIN - Keyboards
ABRAHAM LABORIEL - Bass
ALEX ACUÑA - Drums
STEVE FORMAN - Percussion
MICHAEL BODDICKER - Synthesizers
PAULINHO DA COSTA - Percussion
LOUIS JOHNSON - Bass
JOHNNY MANDEL - String arrangement
GREG PHILLINGANES - Keyboards
RICHARD TEE - Keyboards
GREG MATHIESON - Keyboards
DAVID HUNGATE - Bass
JOHN PIERCE - Bass
RICH SHLOSSER - Drums
JERRY HEY, CHUCK FINLEY, GARY GRANT - Trumpet, Flugel Horns
LOU McCRARY, CHARLES LOPER, BILL REICHENBACK - Trombones
BILL CHAMPLIN - Vocals
And Introducing ERIC TAGG - Vocals

Produced by Harvey Mason, David Foster, and Lee Ritenour
Executive Producer: Lee Ritenour for Captain Fingers Productions

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Lee Mack Ritenour (born January 11, 1952) is an American jazz guitarist who has contributed to over 3,000 sessions and has charted over 30 contemporary jazz hits since 1976.

Ritenour was born January 11, 1952 in Los Angeles. At 16, he played on his first recording session, with the Mamas & the Papas, and was given the nickname Captain Fingers for his dexterity. He was a studio musician in the 1970s, winning Guitar Player magazine's Best Studio Guitarist award twice.

Throughout his career, Ritenour has experimented with different styles of music, incorporating funk, pop, rock, blues, Brazilian, and classical music with jazz.

~Wikipedia

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Tagg's falsetto is so mesmerizing, I never really paid much attention to the lyrics. Until now. So "is it my imagination" or do they tell a rather spooky, bodice-ripping, romantic tale worthy of an Anne Rice novel? Maybe this was Tagg's fantasy. Or maybe it's just an excuse for me to use more of those great pics I found while making the Steely Dan Gaslighting Abbie video.

thatMimosaGrove

If you're an 80's baby, Eric Tagg is The Greatest Singer That You Never Knew You Knew. The Blue Eyed Soulster was always over shadowed by similar acts like Michael The Main Man McDonald, Michael Franks, Michael Sembello but enough about Michaels, Hall & Oates and Bobby Caldwell who was overshadowed in his own right.The vocalist on Lee Ritenour's Is I t You? should have most going Oh! That guy. Heck, Back in the day I even lazily thought Is It You? was JT of Kool & The Gang, Bros Johnson or George Duke+ Stanley Clarke as all 3 had the market on the soft sound in question.

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