Search - Chip Taylor :: Hit Man

I give this 4 stars unheard

11/26/1998

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Chip Taylor's Last Chance was one of my favorite non-mainstream CW albums of the '70s. Of course, everybody knows Taylor wrote Wild Thing(which was covered both by The Troggs and also by a Bobby Kennedy impersonator) and Angel of The Morning, which moved Seattle's Merilee Rush out of Parker's and The Spanish Castle and onto the Top-40 charts, but he's less well known for being the brother of actor Jon Voight(Catch-22 & Deliverance). Taylor's a gifted songwriter, and I'm ordering this collection to go with my scratchy old LPs. Unfortunately, 101 In Cashbox isn't on this disc, which is about Taylor's experiences when Angel became a hit, and why I only gave 3 stars. Any Way You Want Me was covered by Bread, before David Gates joined the group, and consigned them to the limbo of elevators and easy listening stations. Joe Bob says check it out."