who is david geddes, and why did he assault the airwaves with this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU0R9qmtLQAit’s bad enough he’s also responsible for the awful tearjerker the last game in the season (blind man in the bleachers). but run, joey, run is one of the worst songs i have ever had the non-pleasure of hearing. and oh, i heard it a ton in 1975, when it became a hit.
so who is david geddes? well, there’s not a ton about him on the internet. i can’t seem to locate much beyond birth dates and nominal info on wikipedia. so i have a theory: this man is currently involved in an artist protection program. there’s no other explanation for his disappearance: his songs were so incredibly dismal, sacharrine, and painful, he simply chose to honorably not inflict them on people again lest he end up a real-life character in one of his musical melodramas.
in this one, the singer, aka joey (not to be confused with a kinder, gentler, and possibly dumber joey), is distressed. to make a long story short, he has been caught with his girlfriend by her father in a compromising position. the father goes after him. eventually, the father goes after him with a gun, only too bad for dad: his daughter gets in between joey and the bullet. and so ends our short-attention-span shakespearean theater. cue the tissues.
what kind of asshat lets his apparently-pregnant girlfriend take a bullet that was meant for him?
the music sounds like something out of a mid-1970s drama.
in short, this is a musical car crash. run from it.
Oh GAHHHH I remember this. I am SO not clicking that video. You can almost stop right here; nothing you could select for the rest of the month could possibly be this bad, I think (but of course I’ll keep checking because I have a masochistic streak).
And another from my list of owned and (at the time) favorite songs in my youth. Keep going! Eventually you’ll hit one I actually hated at the time. (Although if you stick to this type of music, I doubt it – I tended to hate heavy rock music back then and stuck with the sappy stuff.)
So bad you must listen to it. Blech! Sounds like a bad rendition of some high school musical.
Ugh. What a steaming pile. I hope that David Geddes is a great success in some other non-musical field of endeavor today.
I confess i owned it too.
Of course not to be confused with the mid 70’s saturday morning show,
Run Joe Run
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvI3U8i2MX4&feature=related
I heard this on the XM 70’s channel today, and sprayed nostalgic, derisive spittle on my keyboard. I foisted it on my similarly-aged friend Tom, who HAD to have heard it as a lad, but managed to block it out, and honestly claims not to remember it. Before he played it, I described it as lyrically equivalent to Seasons in the Sun, but presentationally cheesier because of the young girl’s voice. “He sounds like Cher” was all Tom could muster by way of comment.
Man this song was painful to listen to I remember it coming on once on grandads kitchen radio and he just turned it off before it barely played.If it came on in a car radio I would feel like I was being tortured .what’s worse there were people who really liked it… ohhhh god I actualy saw someone dance to it once in a diner of all places… yeah! oh it took a special kind of idiot to put money in a juke box and play that and ask a girl to dance. yeah people used to dance to juke box music in diner’s and hamburger type joint’s those people used to really annoy me dancin around at 10 AM to run joey run or A heart beat is a love beat .Oh well crap makes the world go round for those who worship at the alter of mediocrity David Geddes paved the way for the Jonas brothers Brittany Spears insync backstreat boys etc honestly most top forty radio is crap but it appeals to those who are easily sold on flash and trash. Im going to teach a manure pile to sing .
I was just thinking about this song today and I found this blog! A friend of mine had that 45 and we laughed for hours and hours playing it. Im ashamed to say its like a guilty pleasure. I wondered what happened to the guy who sang it he must be in hiding there is nothing about him on the internet. I hope he got rich from hit because it was a hit. Its the same like Playground in My Mind like Clint Holmes it was a hit but Clint had no other hits and now he is huge draw in Vegas. At least Clint it making money I dont know what David Geddes is doing he probably has a 9-5!