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Arguably the quintessential one-shot band of all time, Cafferty and
company (who, back in the early '70s, were simply a hack New England bar
band) had their 15 minutes of fame courtesy of a ridiculously
overwrought 1983 film called Eddie and the Cruisers (starring Michael
Pare). The movie dealt with the suspicious death of a fictional
singer/songwriter, modeled on a conflation of Bob Dylan and Bruce
Springsteen, who had made the transition from smart rock & roller to
serious artist. Seems as though Eddie had recorded a brilliant but
unreleased album that fused Chuck Berry-style rock & roll with French
Symbolist poetry. A record way ahead of its time, the master tapes of
The Dark Side went missing, right around the time of Eddie's "death."
Needing a band to supply music for the film, the producers used the
Springsteen-ish sounding Cafferty and his clock-punching backup band.
With the Springsteen-ish single "On the Dark Side" paving the way,
Cafferty led, arguably, the most anonymous band with a hit record in the
history of rock & roll. With the movie doing reasonably well in theaters
and extremely well on video, sales of Cafferty's album -- which,
ironically, had been out for months before the band's involvement with
Eddie and the Cruisers and barely caused a murmur -- skyrocketed. But,
as the movie faded from the public consciousness, so did Cafferty's
imitation of Springsteen. ~ John Dougan Return
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Albums: |
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Eddie & The Cruisers: The Unreleased
Tapes ,1991 |
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Eddie & The Cruisers 2: Eddie Lives!
,1989 |
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Roadhouse: The Voice of Eddie & the
Cruisers ,1993 |
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Notable Eighties Songs:
- On The Dark Side
- Season In Hell
- C-I-T-Y
- Small Town Girl
- Voice of America's Sons (also on Stallone's "Cobra"
soundtrack
- Song and Dance
- Pride and Passion
- Tender Years
- Tough All Over
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