Eddie Schwartz to me will always be the guy who just killed it, absolutely crushed it with "Special Girl," a song that still makes the little hairs on the back of my neck stand up. The band America also released a version of the song in 1984, and while it's musically a pretty close cover, the vocals don't get anywhere close to conveying the emotional gut punch Eddie delivers. Meat Loaf would also cover the song on his 1986 album Blind Before I Stop , and honestly it's not bad, but again it seemed to miss the mark. This was also the album where Meat Loaf butchered Billy Rankin's "Burning Down," which was a weird cover that also completely missed the point of the original. I'm actually getting a bit ahead of myself, and while "Special Girl" is the song I most closely associate with Mr. Schwartz, it was part of an album that really deserved more recognition than it received. I do remember hearing "Strike" on the radio a couple of...
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