38 Special "Back To Paradise"

[620 Soul Train]

From the SDTRK of Revenge Of The Nerds 2. As a matter of fact it is the movie's theme song! This song just missed the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. However it made it to #38 on the R&R Pop charts. I chose the topic because it's one of my favourite 38 Special songs cuz it rocks and it's absolutely underrated. Whoever sang lead on this cut sang this well! I just bought this on Itunes tonight!

#41 Billboard Hot 100
#39 Hot 100 Single Sales
#38 R&R CHR
#04 Mainstream Rock (then it was called AOR)
#59 Mainstream Rock Year-End Rank

1987

[Hervard]

I remember this song. I might have already told this story, but I forget which thread (obviously would be a .38 Special topic). Anyway, when this song was on the chart, the band was in the Close-Up feature on Dave Sholin's Countdown USA. Oddly enough, the week they were featured (September 5), this song fell off the chart and, if my memory serves me correctly, they did not play this song. I'm not sure what all songs they played, but I know that the ones they did were "Like No Other Night", "If I'd Been The One" and, of course, their biggest (by early September, 1987) "Caught Up In You". That might have been it, since they sometimes only played three songs, but usually that was only with bands that had very few hits (Europe comes to mind when they were in the Close-Up during the chart run of "Superstitious). .38 Special had enough charted hits to play the usual four songs per show (one per hour) and as I said, they did play "Like No Other Night" and "If I'd Been The One", so obscurity was apparently not an issue.

Anyway, enough rambling on. Although this was far from being my favorite 38 Special song, I did rather like it. In fact, when I was in radio class and was doing an assigned Five-Minute DJ show, in which we were to feature an intro, a song, a commercial (something we were to improvise), and an outro, all in five minutes. The length of the song was to be no longer than three and a half minutes long, so I chose this song, since it runs for a little over that period of time (3:36). I just faded it out early so it worked out just fine. I loved the song at the time (just a few months after it had charted) but my interest in the song sort of dimmed over the years. Not sure why.

[tico]

I remember this. Not anything really, um, special about it.

[jimmy74747]

38 Special has a lot of great songs. This isn't one of them