David And David - "Welcome To The Boomtown"

[reception]

A forgotten classic from 1985. I think it reached #37 on AT40. stevienice has the LP.

[stevie nice]

Oh yeah Randall, this is a great album all the way through. I'm not even sure this is available on CD. I'm glad you brought this song up.

[620 Soul Train]

I think this song had limited airplay as a result of their overall chart performance. I heard it only on AT40 during the winter of 1986. I didn't really care for the song, however I do remember it struggling to climb it's way up for so long as I watched it climb the charts.

[irock]

I remember bringing this up at the old R&R boards once. I love it. It got lots of airplay on our local rock station. I didn't realize that a CD was unavailable. I have the album on vinyl. I remember trying to download this without luck a few years back, so I hooked one of my turntables up to the computer and recorded my own mp3.

This is a depressing tune from a pretty depressing album, but somehow the melody makes the downbeat lyrics seductive.

Unfortunately, David and David never recorded another album.

[stevie nice]

Thanks for the mp3, maybe I'll just burn the album onto a CD, it's pretty much free of pops and scratches in the surface of the vinyl.

[shecaughtthekaty]

My first time posting - I bought the CD on Amazon a few years ago (2001) and it had all the great David & David songs - Boomtown, Swallowed by the Cracks and the excellent 'It Ain't Easy'.

I remember hearing the tracks on the radio in Ireland when I was a teenager and I got the local record store to order the vinyl 45's for me as they were released in Europe.

[Hervard]

Yeah, the "limited airplay" theory that JoshJoel mentioned sounds feasible, since it didn't chart at R&R. Not sure how far it got in New & Active, though, if it ever even made it there.

I didn't really care for this song at all and wasn't disappointed that it petered out at #37. The tune and the subject matter didn't really appeal to me.

[reception]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkawEXzgz6w

[billcs]

I also have the vinyl album. The entire Boomtown album is very good. This is one of the better tracks, a deserved hit.

[tico]

I remember when it charted, but I don't remember much about this song at all except for something about "cocaine on her dresser". Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't D&D the first duo to chart using the same first name? I remember Casey Kasem saying something to that effect.

[Radical347]

I picked up the CD last summer at Sam the Record Man in Toronto. One of the few albums I can listen to in entirety but this is my favorite track.

[areyoureadytojump]