SOLVING the Mystery of the COOLEST One Hit Wonder of the 70s! | Professor Of Rock

Coming up….It’s an extraordinary episode of Bottled Lightning- The story of 70s smash 1 hitter Driver’s Seat .. It took years to finally get a release… Years after writing and demoing it the band Sniff n' the Tears were finally able to record it and then it sat for a year because the label was changing distribution.. then it struggled in it’s homeland because when people wanted the record it wasn’t available because the record pressing plant had gone on strike. Finally in 1979 it became a hit as the prefect combination of 70s guitar and 80s moog synth and then the band broke up… only to have the song hit #1 again in 1991. the singer and writer of the hit tells us the never-ending saga next on professor of rock.

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t’s time for another edition of our series Bottled Lightening where we celebrate a song that was king for a day or for many days. We honor artists and bands and that one glorious hit they had that rocketed up the charts…and for reasons unknown didn’t have another hit. We all know them for the term one hit wonder but we try to step beyond that and celebrate them as Lightening in a bottle. Today we go for a ride in the Driver Seat with Sniff 'in' the Tears .. the #15 US billboard hit from 1979 with original lead singer and songwriter Paul Roberts. Roberts is also a gifted painter.

This was a perfect song for it’s time with a cool acoustic guitar opening that turned into a 70s like AOR guitar attack with a dollop of sleek MOG synthesizer that was driving toward the future with irresistible background vocals and lyrics that were more than meets the eye. This was a song that stopped me dead in my tracks the first time I heard it. It’s one of the best Bottled Lightening tunes of the late 70s.

I caught up with singer songwriter Paul Roberts about the song and he gave us some amazing insight including where the heck the band name sniff 'n' the tears came from .As we go into this interview I want to thank our awesome sponsor Zenni eyewear, the glasses I always jam. With Zenni you have Styles for every budget you can do rimless glasses, you just pick your frames and then you choose form a variety of lens shapes including rectangle, heart shaped or others. check it out at Zenni.com today. Here’s Paul Roberts on the Driver’s Seat

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