Mention John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band, and you'll probably get a lot of people ask, "Who?" Fair question.
Started in 1972, this group comes from the rocking state of....Rhode Island?...and has a similar sound to Bruce Springsteen and his boys. What most people don't know is that John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band gave voice to the fictional group Eddie and the Cruisers.
"Eddie and the Cruisers" was a movie released in 1983. It recounted the present day search for the missing second album of the 1960's group of the same name. Its widescreen performance was not good, losing money on a slim $5 million dollar budget. But along comes HBO....
In the summer of 1984, my buddy Mike calls me over to watch this movie about this 60's rock group. I don't remember many of the movie's plot details, but I do remember really digging the soundtrack. This exact scenario was repeated countless times around the country. Thanks to the HBO rotation, "Eddie and the Cruisers" aired several times a day, the soundtrack got a lot of airtime, and 2 songs in particular started climbing the charts. "Tender Years" rose to number 10, and "On the Darkside", today's selection, went all the way to number 1.
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