A KOOL Day for Music

Song that was released in the summer of 1972 that didn’t get a whole lot of love when it was first released. Then how did it reach number one?

Looking Glass

Brandy

A song that was released as a B-side single, but even the A-side didn’t get much respect on on the music charts.

Looking Glass was part of the Jersey Shore sound that had spent years of being known as a cover band. They would often sneak in some of their own material at live performances in the New Brunswick area, playing at frat parties and local bars.

After being discovered by legendary music producer, Clive Davis who was responsible for signing Tony Orlando, Sly & the family Stone, Janis Joplin, Chicago, Bruce Springsteen and Blood, Sweat & Tears just to name a few they took their time in the recording studio to get this song just right.

It was Harv Moore, a Washington D.C. disc jockey who took the song up as his personal cause on the air-waves.

The song slowly made its presence known on the national music chart after the Washington D.C. Top 40 radio station officially added it to the rotation and when the single was finally released by the label it sold over a million copies.

As a side note, when the song was released, there was a statistical up-tick of new born females being named ‘Brandy’ and kept Barry Manilow renaming one of his songs to avoid confusion.