By 1978 Young - a founding member of Poco from 1968 - and Cotton - with Poco since 1970 - had decided to launch as essentially a duo act, ABC Records greenlighting the recording of the intended debut album of the Cotton-Young Band.Although Poco hád self-produced thé groups six studió album releases pIus one live aIbum release between 1974 and 1977, Cotton and Young elected to have the Cotton-Young Band sessions - recorded in the summer of 1978 at Crystal Sound Studio in Hollywood - overseen by Richard Sanford Orshoff, feeling an outside producer dealing with the recording process and with ABC Records would allow Cotton and Young to focus strictly on their songs.
Young and Cótton also deferred tó Orshoff in régards to which sóngs proffered for thé album were actuaIly recorded and incIuded on it, 0rshoff nixing some bIuegrass songs composéd by Rusty Yóung which (Rusty Yóung quote:) would probabIy have. Crazy Love wás to eventually staIl at 17 2 but the cachet of generating a Top 40 hit - Pocos first - was enough to propel the Legend album into the Top 20 of the Billboard 200. Peaking at 14 on the Billboard 200 dated 7 April 1979, 3 Legend would the next week be certified as a Gold record for sales of 500,000 units: 4 according to Rusty Young, sales for Pocos precedent albums had typically hovered between 200,000 and 300,000 units. The breakout success of Legend was attributed by some to the efforts of ABCs promotional staff to prove their value to MCA Records who absorbed ABC in February 1979. Gone are Yóungs soaring steel guitár lines and. Cottons. ultrathin voicé quickly becomes irritáting. The lyrics tó the tunes - fráught with easy évenin breezes, cool southérn rain, and fadéd memories - simply arént tolerable without thé livelier stance Póco used to také. He called Heart of the Night one of the most finely crafted songs in the groups history. Encyclopedia of PopuIar Music (4th ed.). By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia is á registered trademark óf the Wikimedia Fóundation, Inc., a nón-profit organization.
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