Coming up, an interview with Paul Roberts of Sniff 'n' the Tears about one of my favorite songs of 1979, Driver’s Seat. Technically the band is a one-hit wonder and what a story behind this one… First of all, Driver’s Seat sat on the shelf for years… because the label was changing distributors.. and then a worker’s strike at the record plant might’ve kept it from being a #1 hit because the factory couldn’t print the record so fans couldn’t buy it. And then when it did become a hit the band immediately broke up… but then a decade later the song finally hit #1 when it was used in an insurance commercial. The long and winding story of the classic Driver’s Seat is next on Professor of Rock.
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The 70s 1 Hit Wonder you need to hear NOW! Coming up….It’s an extraordinary episode of Bottled Lightning- where a hit song took years to finally get a release… Years after writing and demoing it the band was finally able to record it and then it sat for a year because the label was changing distribution.. then it struggled in its homeland because when people wanted the record it wasn’t available because the record pressing plant had gone on strike. Finally, in 1979, it became a hit as the perfect combination of 70s guitar and 80s Moog synth and then the band broke up… only to have the song hit #1 again in 1991. The singer and writer of the hit tells us the never-ending saga next on Professor of Rock.
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It’s time for another edition of our series Bottled Lightening where we celebrate a song that was king for a day or for many days. We honor artists and bands and that one glorious hit they had that rocketed up the charts…and for reasons unknown didn’t have another hit. We all know them for the term one-hit wonder but we try to step beyond that and celebrate them as Lightning in a bottle. Today we go for a ride in the Driver Seat with Sniff 'n' the Tears .. the #15 US billboard hit from 1979 with original lead singer and songwriter Paul Roberts. Roberts is also a gifted painter.
This was a perfect song for its time with a cool acoustic guitar opening that turned into a 70s-like AOR guitar attack with a dollop of sleek MOG synthesizer that was driving toward the future with irresistible background vocals and lyrics that were more than meets the eye. This was a song that stopped me dead in my tracks the first time I heard it. It’s one of the best Bottled Lightening tunes of the late 70s.
I caught up with singer-songwriter Paul Roberts about the song and he gave us some amazing insight including where the heck the band name sniffin the tears came from.
Leave us a comment about Driver’s Seat by Sniff 'n' the Tears A bottled lightening classic . What are your memories of this song? What do you think of it? Let us know in the comments below.