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Yesterday's CoronaVinyl category was "N," and one of the albums I got from my neighbor was Kenny Nolan's self-titled 1977 debut album. It's also the last album by an "N" artists that I have for the timebeing.
Nolan was a singer-songwriter who mainly worked in the '70s and '80s. He got his start in the music business as a songwriter, and with veteran songwriter Bob Crewe, he co-wrote various hits for other artists, like Frankie Valli's 1974 #1 hit "My Eyes Adored You" and Labelle's 1974 #1 hit "Lady Marmalarde" -- which were #1 in consecutive weeks -- Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes' 1974 Top 10 hit "Get Dancin'," among others.
After a brief stint in the band Firefly and then the studio band The Eleventh Hour, Nolan decided to record a solo album. The album itself didn't chart very well, reaching only #78 on the Billboard album chart, but it had three songs that charted on the Billboard Hot 100, including Nolan's biggest two hits: "I Like Dreamin'" (#3), "Love's Grown Deep" (#20), and "My Eyes Get Blurry" (#97).
The album is pure late '70s soft rock, so it's a little cheesy by today's standards, but it's what the kids (i.e., our parents) liked back then. The album isn't on Spotify, but there's a greatest hits album that has most of the songs on the album, so I'm just embedding that below.
Favorite Song on Side 1: "My Jole"
This song is a little funkier than the rest of the songs on the album, and would probably fit in on any yacht rock playlist.
Favorite Song on Side 2: "Today I Met the Girl I'm Gonna Marry"
This appears to be a response song to Darlene Love's 1963 Top 40 hit "Today I Met the Boy I'm Gonna Marry," and it has an early '60s soul feel to it.
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