Golden Earring - Radar Love (The Midnight Special, 1974) - edit/update

[highplainsdem]

Last edited Thu Apr 28, 2022, 08:34 AM - Edit history (4)

Since the grinch blocked the Midnight Special video I'd posted (I'm leaving that link at the bottom of this OP), I'm editing to add a much more energetic 9-minute video of the same song from Don Kirshner's Rock Concert in 1973

And here's a video from earlier in 1973 (when they had longer hair):

Editing again to replace the version of the music video above with a better, HD version from Red Bullet -- and to add another YouTube video I found of that Midnight Special performance -- so I'm also going to delete the original link that was blocked. Btw, since I first posted this thread, I read something explaining that the reason lead guitarist George Kooymans took some of the lead vocals, which he usually didn't do on this song, was that Barry Hay was having some trouble singing. A bit of laryngitis, if I recall correctly. Most noticeable at the start of the second verse.

[BarbaRosa]

1. The Danelectro Longhorn bass is pretty cool.

[highplainsdem]

3. Yep. Love the lyre shape for those guitars. Great sound, too.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. An All Time Fave!

Just such a cool song!
Parts of it smolder, some parts roar, parts set a mood, others peel the paint off the wall.
It just cannot be listened to at modest volume!

[highplainsdem]

4. What a perfect description! "Parts of it smolder, some parts roar, parts set a mood, others peel

the paint off the wall."

Nailed it.

Thanks for posting that!

[highplainsdem]

5. Kicking after editing the OP to replace a blocked video with two others.

[highplainsdem]

6. Article on how the song was written:

https://americansongwriter.com/radar-love-golden-earring-behind-the-song/