Moon Martin - Bad Case Of Loving You , live in Germany 1981

Moon Martin is maybe best known for writing the songs "Bad Case Of Lovin' You (Doctor, Doctor)" made famous by the English singer Robert Palmer; and "Cadillac Walk" made famous by the American singer Willy DeVille. Martin gained recognition in the 1970s as a pop artist and composer. He was given the nickname "Moon" because many of his songs had the word "moon" in the lyrics. He also scored two minor hits of his own with the song "Rolene" in 1979; and "X-Ray Vision" in 1982; which was an early MTV hit music video.

Here, Moon Martin and the Ravens, consisting of Jude Cole on guitar, Denny and Rick Croy on bass and drums and Jeff Fargus on keyboard, performes the song Bad Case Of Loving You, recorded at the Markthalle in Hamburg, Germany January 21 1981.

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[paelgin]

Cool hearing original as written.

LOL At 2:30, "Shake my fist, knock on wood..." background guitarist knocks on his head...

[larth58]

@paelgin small correction: Moon sings ...pound on wood ... and the guy knocking his head is Denny Croy, the BASS-player not the guitarist :-)

[msinthrop]

One more thing>> GREAT POST! All i ever had from this time period was the Super 8 footage i shot of him (No Sound) back in 1978. this is Awesome!!

[larth58]

Keep tuning in here, because I have lot's of more Moon videos which I will post here as far as I get the time!

[monktonk]

Great video. I think its from the WDR Rockpalast broadcast. Samstag auf Sonntag, 06.11.1994 1.20 - 6.20 Uhr im WDR Fernsehen LYNYRD SKYNYRD (Musikhalle Hamburg, 05.12.74) LEE CLAYTON (Markthalle Hamburg, 09.01.80) DAVID LINDLEY (Metropol Berlin, 03.11.81) MOON MARTIN (Markthalle Hamburg, 22.01.81)

[larth58]

Yeah, it's from the Rockpalast broadcast but the date is wrong. Moon played the Markthalle January 21 according to the Rockpalast Archiv. Funny though, the 22'nd Carolyne Mas made a gig at the Markthalle.

Carolyne maybe were watching the Moon concert the day before and liked it because on her next record she included a Moon Martin cover. The song was "(S.O.S) Signal for help"

[martinjhscott]

Bollocks - this is a great song. Robert Palmer had two talents - his voice and his choice of other people's material (oh yeah, and dress sense, attracting women, etc., etc.) - but give credit where it's due. eh?

[plattform5163]

I like it !  thanks for sharing!

[sharpman1100]

hearing,not earing

[sharpman1100]

I remeber earing and buying this in Torquay long before Robert Palmer watered it down,glad to say I've got the original 45 with picture sleeve

[tythefrog]

I wish someone would make a hard rock cover of this

[DanielPaul56]

@larth58  Even smaller correction....a bass player IS a guitarist. Ease up a little.

[Tineluss]

You nailed it, man

[paelgin]

@larth58 You're right about the lyrics (I guess I paraphrased in my head) and the musician. Thanks for the clarification. I was laughing too hard I guess.

How do you know them (the band) so well? Are you one of them (he says hopefully)?

[neverindoubt]

I love the chic on the lower right, boogie pop!!

[BigL74transAm]

Awesome!!  Super Cool!!!!