100 Great Songs to Publish a Book to, #63: Sparks, When Do I Get To Sing ‘My Way’?
It’s remarkable to consider that brothers Ron and Russell Mael now have a career spanning over five decades, and they’re still going strong. As with a few other acts on this list, Sparks deserve greater recognition and appreciation than they currently enjoy. When Do I Get To Sing ‘My Way’? displays their prodigious talent fully. My first choice for this list was their 1974 hit This Town Ain’t Big Enough, because I could have embedded the hilarious YouTube video where Sparks performed the song in the midst of a German studio audience in 1974, each member of which appears wholly comatose. But the video for this track, from the 1994 album Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins, is actually more enjoyable as it shows the Mael brothers’ endearing sense of humour at its best.
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