I wish I had a ...

[PeteyPirate]

... do-over at life

Hmm, you can't really dance to it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/08/AR2009050800906.html?hpid=entnews

INDIANAPOLIS -- Late-1980s pop artist Henry Lee Summer has been arrested in Indianapolis on methamphetamine possession and other charges.

Summer was arrested Tuesday after police say he threw drugs from his car during a traffic stop. Officers who tried to pull him over for not using a turn signal say they needed pepper spray to subdue the singer, whose real name is Henry Lee Swartz.

The 53-year-old scored two Top 20 hits in the late 1980s with "I Wish I Had a Girl (Who Walked Like That)" and his cover of the song "Hey Baby."

 

[Huggy]

Wow, wonder what happened to him. I loved that song.

Back in the glory days, great mullet:

 

[expendable]

He's still got the mullet. Though I wouldn't classify it as great anymore.

 

[Bob Cook]

Just to throw political fire on it: during Republican Robert Orr's (successful) 1984 campaign to get re-elected as Indiana's governor, Summer did a song and campaign video for him. I also remember his "Time for Big Fun" being used during Pacers tipoffs, and not ironically even though it was when the Pacers were losing 60 games a year in front of 5,000 people in Market Square Arena, when the big brown curtains shut off the upper area in a failed attempt to make it look less depressing.

I believe Summer in the last year or two got busted trying to score meth at a trailer park. How sad.

 

[expendable]

Political fire. Just what a thread on SJ needs.

 

[Killick]

Always liked that song, but was stuck forever with the thought: "Who the frak is Leroy?"

 

[Canuck Pappy]

I saw him on Letterman in 1987 or 88 when he his one hit was big. I thought he was on drugs then. He was all over the map.

 

[Trouser_Buddah]

When I first heard the song I thought he said "I wish I had a girl who won't fight back."

Kind of a different meaning.

 

[JBHawkEye]

He appeared at one of our local summer festivals at the "height" of his career. He was a little strange that night.

 

[Killick]

When I first heard the song I thought he said "I wish I had a girl who won't fight back."

Kind of a different meaning.

OUTING ALERT! Buddah is Bobby Knight.

 

[DirtyDeeds]

How the hell? I "grew up" in the '80s and I have never heard of this guy or heard this song. Was it really a big hit?

 

[User 1019]

... girl who looked good. I would call her.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

...million dollars.
HOT DOG!

 

[Football_Bat]

... rocket launcher.

Some sonuvabitch would die.

 

[Bubbler]

He was treated like royalty in Indiana from the time I moved there until about 1990 or so. The poor man's Mellencamp.

 

[Football_Bat]

He was treated like royalty in Indiana from the time I moved there until about 1990 or so. The poor man's Mellencamp.

Who was in turn the poor man's Springsteen.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

The poor man needs better taste in music.

 

[linotype]

When I first heard the song I thought he said "I wish I had a girl who won't fight back."

Kind of a different meaning.

I used to think he was singing about wanting a girly walk like that.

 

[imjustagirl]

... girl who looked good. I would call her.

Awesome.



...boyfriend.

 

[OTD]

...million dollars.
HOT DOG!

Nice IAWL-jack.