BB Gabor - Metropolitan Life

From BB Gabor's first album.

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Music

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• B.B. Gabor
• Hegedus
• Soviet Jewelry
• Moscow Drug Club
• Canadian
• Rock
• Pop

[stingerbarton]

how about up loading the other songs like lazor love

[xxooliver]

@stingerbarton I'd like to upload all the songs at a higher bit rate but I'm not sure if it's converting them to video that reduces the audio quality, or the way I uploaded them to youtube. I will include the ones I missed for sure.

[Johnnywhamo]

WOW, this is an oldie but an awesome New wave track. I use to LOVE Toronto's CFNY, it was THE BEST radio station EVER. Those were the days the DJ would play a great deal of tunes they themselves loved or discovered. CFNY broke many a new wave acts into North America in heyday and it was a great time because of the fact New Wave was a new music style as well. I was 18 year old in 82, and looking back it was a wonderful time to be a kid.

[ripporter]

@xxooliver I'm not sure if I can find it! My CDs are all over the place - you can go to cdbaby and download it for 99 cents - search for Driving in The Rain 3 AM

[xxooliver]

@ripporter I have no idea about the tapes. All I heard was the cassette Gabor brought back out west just after the sessions when he played it for some of his friends. It could be the same one his widow had. I'd like to hear "Celtic Cross". Any chance of uploading a copy?

[ripporter]

@xxooliver Wow, you might be the only one to have heard them - I don't know if Celtic Cross was the only thing that was in good enough condition to remaster from the cassette, given that cassette tape can deteriorate quite a bit over the years! Do you know what became of the reel-to-reel tapes from the studio?

[ripporter]

@seandeeify Bergmann - I gave him a ride home once....

[xxooliver]

@ripporter I don't think it was ever released, but that sounds like it could be it. I knew Gabor in '85 and heard the unmastered tracks when he got back from Rundgren's Bearsville studios. All I remember is one song with the lyric "They say that love's ephemeral, I don't mind. Oooh, that may be true, ...but I'll still take love, ...anytime." He also had a recording of The Tubes doing one of his songs. They had been doing sessions at Bearsville at the time he was there.

[xxooliver]

@garrettnb The 320 mp3 I have is 6 megs. If that's not too big for an email attachment I could send you a copy.

[ripporter]

@xxooliver You mean "Celtic Cross" on the compilation "Driving in the Rain:3 AM - Songs to Get Lost With" that Ralph Alfonso remastered? It's really beautiful - Ralph said that he wasn't sure if it was one that Rundgren produced - although it was on a cassette tape that B.B. Gabor's widow had that had that was marked "Produced by Todd Rundgren".