Screams - Paper Dolls / Angeline's Toys / I Play For You (1979)

[yakacack]

"I Play For You" is one of my all time favorite songs. I'm only 29, but grew up around the song as the writer Gregg Clemons was friends with my parents prior to my being born. This was their favorite "slow" song as the original is much, much more of a ballad than the Screams version. My parents played it a countless times around me when I was a kid. I know Brad was in other bands with Gregg and Mike Isenberg and the like in the Peoria and Champaign areas :) Thanks again!

[drprogensteinphp]

@yakacack

Great story...thanks for sharing :)

Cheers!

[CAUTIONmagneticable]

I recently found out David Adams is my uncle.

[drprogensteinphp]

@CAUTIONmagneticable

"Screams" with joy!...Lol.....that's really cool! How did you find out?

[CAUTIONmagneticable]

@CAUTIONmagneticable well, unfortunately, my grandma (his sister) passed away and I saw him comment on a facebook group and was trying to figure out who he was and I discovered it.

[drprogensteinphp]

@CAUTIONmagneticable

Sorry to hear about your Grandmother.

Take care.

[dereckvon]

I'm glad you posted it.

[dereckvon]

This is too cool. I just worked with the drummer/leader of this band last month. He is in The Romantics now. Brad Elvis/Steakley.

[drprogensteinphp]

@dereckvon

Cool...thanks for the update on Brad...I'll edit that into the "info" section above :)

Not sure what possessed me to upload this, as it does seem to stray from the norm with regards to my usual. But I've always liked these guys, & the many other Power Pop bands of the last 40 years. I was digging through a couple boxes of vinyl I had stored away, and stumbled upon this...played it for the first time in 20 years or so...and before I knew it I was opening Windows Movie Maker, Lol.