Pop Clip of the Week - Your Were So Warm

Feeling less than than Rock this week - not sure why - change of weather? Change of plans? Change of direction? Maybe all the above. Am seeing a Rock Coach named Mike in NYC next week to work it all out. :-)

So we have this week's Pop Clip of the week - not quite rock, not quite dead, but somewhere in between. Dwight Twilley wrote a song called "You Were So Warm" back in 1970-something. It came out on his first LP "Sincerely" in 1976 which I was playing tonight on a table that turns, via a vinyl record that got hit on by a lever arm with a needle upon it that jabbed its grooves to make its sounds.

Purveyors of fine music Bedazzled wrote:
"One of my favorite bands of all time is The Dwight Twilley Band. I bought their debut single "I'm On Fire" when it came out in 1975 and they were the first band I ever went to see play in a nightclub ("Barnaby's" in Bridgeport CT- I was 12!).

"Their 1st LP "Sincerely" is a totally brilliant mix of Merseybeat guitars, Sun Studio slap-back and Everly Brothers harmonies.It's basically 2 guys from Tulsa, Dwight Twilley and Phil Seymour,who met in line at a showing of "A Hard Day's Night" in 1969 and immediately went home and started writing songs and demoing them together. Completing the line-up was the brilliant guitarist Bill Pitcock IV. That was the whole studio band-Dwight played keyboards and rhythm guitar, Phil played drums AND bass (!) and Bill played lead guitar. You can buy "Sincerely" here. More on the band's background here."

It's a beautiful song, with a lyrical sweetness about love and breakup and more. Musically, it hits a very Searchers-via-Lennon-vibe, but with a warmth that neither achieved on their own, and an American pop groove that should be in everyone's collection. Here's the original recorded Dwight Twilley version of "You Were So Warm" (only 12 embeds! Shameful!)


Thankfully, the song lives on in the mighty pop hands of Matthew Caws of Nada Surf, who recorded his own version of the song for the band's 2010 covers release "If I Had a Hi-Fi".

Here's Nada Surf's live version of "You Were So Warm" from earlier this year during their covers tour - all around guitarist/songwriter Doug Gillard plays the hidden lead on the song: