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Bob Welch - French Kissing The Other One

I always had a soft spot for"Sentimental Lady" and "Ebony Eyes" the guy had a cocky weird swagger, and incorporated disco and strings but added a rock element through his guitar. I didn't really know a lot about him at the time. I knew he was in Fleetwood Mac, but I didn't know anything by them other than Rumours so it wasn't really anything that carried any recognition. Oddly enough it would be Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie who would produce his biggest hit "Sentimental Lady" and they would, along with Mick Fleetwood, play on the track as well. So at time at least it would appear that he left his old band on decent terms. French Kiss dropped November 1977 and did pretty well, and considering a month later Saturday Night Fever came out as disco enjoyed it's brief ascent to world dominance through Donna Summer, The Village People and Barry Gibb's tight pants nut-crushed falsetto. It was a terrible time if you had to live throu...