(Top 50 Countdown!!!) 14. The Raspberries - "Overnight Sensation"

I wish I could write in increasingly small letters, until it’s almost, almost, not there at all… and then … WRITE IN REALLY BIG LETTERS ALL OF A SUDDEN, WITH EXCLAMATION MARKS! EVERYWHERE!! “Overnight Sensation” was one of the ‘radio’ records we had starting our “Formula One Generation” album cos, really, it says it all, doesn’t it? Well, maybe not all, but it definitely says a lot of it. The Raspberries were great, of course, but I still have the nagging feeling that they would’ve been better if they’d joined up with Alessi in a kinda Sutherland Brothers & Quiver kinda way. It seems to me they had the haircuts, and, really, that’s half the battle right there. I don’t know which of our songs might’ve been most directly influenced by this one, but probably all of them, one way or another. I suppose it’s a bit like “Shoo Doo Fu Fu Ooh” but with an added hopelessness. What do you think about the bit where it drops down to the AM radio sound? I bet youngsters these days don’t even know what that’s supposed to be about. Don’t know what they’re missing. Radio Luxembourg, under the blankets, til the batteries run out... Ah, swoon!

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