on this day,way back when,
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on this day,way back when,
by growler Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:12 pm
On April 16, 1977, David Soul's smash-hit single "Don't Give Up On Us Baby" reaches the top of the U.S. pop charts. But the story of a tough-but-sensitive TV detective's journey to crossover success began a full 10 years earlier.
Although the soft-rock style of "Don't Give Up On Us Baby" was likely to prove irresistible to fans of "lite"-rock groups like Bread or Seals & Crofts, the song's rise to #1 also owed quite a bit to the celebrity of the man who recorded it. David Soul, to the record-buying public of 1977, was better known as Detective Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchison, the sensitive and soft-spoken television cop who might lecture a drug-dealing Bay City pimp about his unhealthy eating habits while Detective David Starsky was busy beating a confession out of him.
Although the soft-rock style of "Don't Give Up On Us Baby" was likely to prove irresistible to fans of "lite"-rock groups like Bread or Seals & Crofts, the song's rise to #1 also owed quite a bit to the celebrity of the man who recorded it. David Soul, to the record-buying public of 1977, was better known as Detective Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchison, the sensitive and soft-spoken television cop who might lecture a drug-dealing Bay City pimp about his unhealthy eating habits while Detective David Starsky was busy beating a confession out of him.
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