RIP (Singer) Alan O'Day

http://www.examiner.com/article/alan-o-day-dies-undercover-angel-singer-dies-at-the-age-of-72

RIP to a one-hit wonder. Alan O'Day's biggest and best known song was "Undercover Angel" ("...Midnight fantasy...").

 

Whoa! Hoo hoo hoo wee!

 

Also did the theme song for Muppet Babies. Undercover Angel was one of the best kitsch songs of the 1970s, and had one of the best mondigreens (misunderstood lyrics): "midnight fantasy" sounded like "midnight Tennessee"

 

RIP. He made me know that there's a love for me out there, somewhere.

 

If this wasn't the worst song of the 1970s, it has to be in the bottom five. But, RIP.

 

I always got that confused with "Heaven on the 7th Floor"; kitsch of the 70s, just reminds me of a warm summer by the doughboy pool without a care in the world. Good times.

 

That song made "Afternoon Delight" sound positively edgy.

Definitely in the Hall of Schlock, along with "One Tin Soldier."

 

Basically the song was just an attempt to draft off the success of "Charlie's Angels," which had become a teevee hit a couple of months earlier.

And, of course, things were brought full circle when it was used on the soundtrack of the 2000 big-screen 'Charlie's Angels' movie.

 

To me, 70s kitsch=chocolately-kate-upton-in-a-lesbian-tape-free-beer-forever-hitting-the-Powerball goodness.

 

He also wrote "Angie Baby," a No. 1 hit for Helen Reddy, as well as "Rock and Roll Heaven" for the Righteous Brothers. RIP.

 

That seals it: Schlock Hall of Shame.

 

"Undercover Angel" was on the radio every five minutes in the summer of '77. I hope he got rich from that.