Paul Williams

I was surfing around Netflix this weekend, trying to find a movie.    Netflix can  just be another TV wasteland, but occasionally if you surf enough,  you can find a pony in a pile of shit.   I found a documentary on Paul Williams.   I passed by it several times.   I knew who the guy was, and anyone who lived in the late 70s and 80s knew too.   he was everywhere.    Paul Williams, is a funny little guy.

Remember Smokey and the Bandit?

Paul Williams

Paul Williams is that short dude.   You may or not remember him.

When I was a kid, Paul Williams was everywhere.   Fantasy Island, Love Boat, Beretta, Match Game, The tonight show more than a few times….    Stuff I remember as a kid.    He was a TV personality.  I never knew him as anything else.    I always wondered why he was there.

But, the guy had a serious talent for writing music.    Like, more than most.   Like, what most musicians dream of.    I don’t know much about music, but check out that melody and how it rolls around in your head if you let it.    Its a fairly good song, methinks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkkgYjazSkk

He wrote this one as well for 3 dog night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkkgYjazSkkHere’s another one:   From the Muppet movie in 1979.   If you ever bring this up again that I posted this, or said I like it I will punch you in the throat.   For hell sakes… I was twelve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2DTLbTQj0I

He wrote this for a local bank Commercial.   He was just trying to make a buck at the time , then it got found.      This is a great song, and is still the #1 wedding song to this day.

He wrote a bunch more you might recognize.

Anyway, just a thought about the guy.    An influence on his generation.

People are interesting.   Everyone is trying to make their own way, in their own time.   The underdog great ones inspire me.

 

 

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