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Lyrics: Every night I have the same old dream Try to run, try to hide
Searching in the darkness Can’t break away from your spell Your words like ice fall on the ground Searching in the darkness Can’t break away from your spell…
And I thought I knew you so well I thought I knew you so well Get It: Straight Between the Eyes is available for a paltry six clams on Amazon, so you should grab your copy at this great price: You can pick up a copy of Joe Lynn Turner’s Rescue You here:
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While the music curators here at Dances with Bass enjoy featuring little-known artists and deep cuts from more famous artists, our playlists are full of mainstream radio hits, particularly those from the 1970s and 1980s. (Radio lost us in the 1990s and has done little to get us back.) And while Rainbow is known for a half dozen or so big radio hits, we suspect that few people know just how good this band was, despite its constantly changing lineup. By the way, by “constantly changing,” we mean the Rainbow family tree is a bit, um complicated. Guitar legend and Rainbow founder Ritchie Blackmore founded Rainbow in 1975, and he is the only member of the band to appear on every Rainbow album. If you have your reading glasses on, check out this handy chart. You’ll see that Blackmore is the only constant color in the proverbial rainbow.  Rainbow’s vocalist for today’s track, Joe Lynn Turner, had a polished radio-friendly voice that lent itself to more commercially viable tunes, such as Stone Cold, Street of Dreams, and Can’t Let You Go. The band’s original vocalist, the diminutive and bombastic Ronnie James Dio, had a voice that was much better suited for the hard-rocking sound of Rainbow in its earlier days. As many know, Dio left Rainbow in 1979 to join Black Sabbath after Ozzy Osborne’s departure for a solo career. Interestingly, Rainbow’s interim vocalist, Graham Bonnet, sang perhaps Rainbow’s most enduring hit, Since You Been Gone (which as as true rock and rollers know, was written by Argent’s Russ Ballard). Video: Here is the official video for Rainbow’s Stone Cold:
And here is Rainbow performing Can’t Let You Go from their Bent Out of Shape record, which was the last to feature Joe Lynn Turner and the last record of any relevance to the rock and roll world:
And finally, here’s some pretty 1980s rock from Joe Lynn Turner as a soloist. While I thought this particular track was one of the weaker ones on Turner’s solo debut, Rescue You (1985), it was the only single from the album. And unknown to many, Rescue You was one of the better rock albums to come out in the second half of the eighties. I enjoyed this cassette so much, I ended up wearing it to the point of breaking. It wasn’t available on CD until 2005 when, of course, I snapped up a copy:
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