Presenting Song-Poem Singer Danny Dahrlin!
It just screams out to me that someone's over-active imagination tried to come up with a perfect teen idol name. And failed miserably. And the song-poem website only shows Danny Dahrlin's name on a single Preview 45. However, that 45 is not the one I just acquired. This one is listed in newer databases than the mothballed AS/PMA site. And at one of them, someone has pointed out that the singer on "You Never Lose What You Never Had" might be Rodd Keith.
Here's a secret - it is undoubtedly Rodd Keith. And I'm not sure how there could have been any question. That same poster posits, with certainty, that it IS Rodd Keith on Sax. How someone could know that is beyond me - maybe someone out there can explain it to me.
Anyway, this record is a chore, in my opinion - supper club blahs without a beat (or even a drummer), and a weepy tenor sax bleating about as annoyingly as possible. It even fades out suddenly, as if someone hit a clam at the last second and they had to get rid of it.
Download: Danny Dahrlin - You Never Lose What You Never Had
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The flip side of this record is "A Poor Man's Desire", and it features that loping country groove that Rodd Keith sometimes favored in the 1960's. comes complete. Then comes the talky talk, and we don't get to the singing until the 40 second mark. I guess this is Rodd Keith, too, although I listened twice before I was convinced. It's certainly a high register for him.
I'd love to know why Preview (or Rodd) felt the need to use pseudonyms for him, at the same as he was releasing record after record under the usual variation of his given name. And why such a teeny-bopper name for a record with such grown-up lyrics and musical styles.
Anyway, this one seems to go on forever. Honestly, I don't think either of these are very good, but I did want to get a performance by Rodd under this particular pseudonym out there into the internet. Mission accomplished.
Download: Danny Dahrlin - A Poor Man's Desire
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