I thought I just ate too much crap.

Holidays are free days. When I throw off the reins and eat whatever I want. Potato chips especially. Felice buys those Kettle Sea Salt ones. Actually, they’re always in our house. She has amazing self-control. She can eat just a few, and she does this every day. Me? If I start, I don’t stop until I’m satiated.

Although I knew we were going to Gregg and Monica’s later, so I held back, and then they had the same chips there! Along with some tortilla chips, which now outsell potato chips, did you know that? Kind of amazing, like Modelo being the best-selling beer in America. Funny how people hate so many ethnicities, but they LOVE their food.

And there was some fried chicken and bowtie pasta, something else I avoid except on special occasions. And I was satiated, but full to the brim, when the pie and ice cream was served. Oh, what the hell. It’s a holiday, right?

And I’m sitting there watching the fireworks… The San Fernando Valley might be the best place in America to view them, because all across its expanse people are setting them off for hours. Actually, the highlight was a set of drones creating a picture of the American flag over Burbank. And we’re sitting there discussing the state of our nation and then…

Suddenly I didn’t feel so well.

We had to leave.

And when we got home I prayed to the porcelain goddess. And drank some Sprite (the sugar free kind, it’s almost as good as the real thing, although the 7-Up version tastes better), since it’s supposed to settle your stomach, and then I got into bed where I started to shiver and shake, cold as f*ck, trying to gear myself up to throw off the covers and put on some clothes, which I ultimately did, but still unable to sleep I got up, went into the living room and cracked Ann Patchett’s latest, “Whistler.”

I guess I’m wary of someone whom everybody loves. You can’t find a single person to say anything negative about Patchett, and women start to rhapsodize about “Bel Canto”…

Furthermore, she owns her own bookstore in Nashville, and every Friday on TikTok she talks about books, saying “If you haven’t read this book, it’s new to you.” That endeared me to her. Because if you’re not hip to a record, people castigate you, but Ann is saying right up front that it’s all right to be out of the loop.

The first of her books I read, “State of Wonder,” I didn’t get. I don’t mean it was bad, but Patchett’s books always get great reviews, and this was not satisfying. There was plenty of plot, something lacking in too many well-reviewed books, but somehow it didn’t hook me. And I’ve read better out in the wilderness writings.

Then again, that’s the thing about Patchett. She’s not hoity-toity, I wouldn’t exactly say she’s middlebrow, but she’s not lowbrow and not highbrow. As in she’s not playing to the reader and she’s not trying to impress the reader either. Meaning her books are very readable, they tend to cut like butter.

And I found “The Dutch House” to be great. Loved the concept. People move and change, but the house they grew up in remains the same, containing all your memories.

“Tom Lake” had less gravitas, but the summer setting and the summer stock theatre, the light feel resonated with me. The disconnection into your own world.

So I was going to read Patchett’s latest, “Whistler.”

But first I dove into “John of John.”

This is author Douglas Stuart’s third book. The debut, “Shuggie Bain,” was a sensation. The follow-up, “Young Mungo,” was not as well-received, but “John of John” has gotten great reviews, however…

One of the main themes of “Shuggie Bain”…

Let’s just say homosexuality played a big part. And when “John of John” started the same way…

Now I know this makes me look homophobic, so I’ll double down. When a highly reviewed book is set in Africa or India… I’ve learned to be hesitant. Oh, I’ve read a number of these books, and they’ve been great, but so many I’ve started and just haven’t been able to get into. Maybe it’s because I can’t relate. Then again, I’m always wondering if reviewers are bending over backwards to be inclusive. And what women want is not always what I want. A lot of description and…women seem to tolerate a lot of stuff I won’t.

Not that you can say any of this out loud. I’m caught between the left and the right. Then again, can I say that trans women should not be allowed in women’s sports? Oh, there are some where their strength makes no difference. As for said strength, you have to start taking hormones before you’re a teen for there to be a level playing field, and science isn’t even so sure about that. But that’s a litmus test. You’re either with us or against us. You’re either an enlightened Democrat or you’re a backward, heinous Republican. Of course Trump and his cronies have tilted the scales far in the wrong direction, but on many issues you can’t even have a discussion on the left.

So there you have it. I’m biased.

But I’m reading “John of John,” and so much is in Gaelic. And it wasn’t so easy to read, and my eyes were rolling into the back of my head, so I decided to crack “Whistler,” which I just got.

Now if it had just been an issue of too much food, I’d feel fine today, two days later. But I’m still not on an even keel. So rather than go into the salt mines, I laid on the couch and finished “Whistler.”

I’d like to say I enjoyed the last half of the book as much as the first, but…

This is a small story. But almost all of us are living small lives. And those living big lives are oftentimes so busy impressing this upon us that it seems they lose the intimacy of every day activities where no one but your immediate circle is paying attention, knows your stories.

And these stories are what glue us together.

I grew up in a house of five in a split level and in retrospect, I feel like I lived through a war. Daphne never has kids and this is one of the reasons, her upbringing. I wonder if that played into my decision too. I guess I wanted to escape the paradigm.

But her younger sister Leda goes the other way, she has children and she becomes a therapist. And at this point, therapy is seen as kind of a joke, kind of like rehab. Cross a line and they send you to jail for a while and then you return supposedly fixed. There’s no focus on what you learn there. But therapy when done right….

Most people are putting up a front, they’re afraid if there’s a crack in the facade they’ll be judged. But beneath the surface…

And there’s a lot beneath the surface in “Whistler,” as there is in all family stories. And oftentimes you’re not exposed to the details until decades later, when you’re an adult.

So what we’ve got here is a story of seemingly well-adjusted adults who’ve coped with a lot of what seems routine today, but really is not.

Like the fallout of divorce.

Now Daphne opines that their mother’s remarriage and subsequent birthing of two boys makes her more independent. But the girls she teaches in school… The emotional cost of divorce is understated and underrepresented.

And actually, there’s a gay theme in “Whistler” too. Which enhanced the story as opposed to detracted from it. Didn’t bother me in the least. But I’m through trying to prove I’m not homophobic, at least in my reading habits.

So if you pick up the book you’ll find the picture of a horse on the cover. This is Whistler. I don’t think I’m giving too much away. But Whistler’s appearance, and the story surrounding him, is the weakest part of the book. You could say it was integral, but it was in his story that the book dragged the most.

So if you’re a fan of Patchett, dive right in.

If you’re looking for a summer beach read that is not lightweight drivel, that has some substance, this is better than the overplotted tomes.

“Dutch House” and “Tom Lake” were better, but “Whistler” is worth reading.

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I’d never heard of it.

Then again, doing a bit of research I found it was blown up by the “Wall Street Journal,” and I read that pretty comprehensively.

Then again, I might not have found the headline appealing:

“The Smartest People in the Room Are All Listening to the Same Podcast – How did Acquired become the business world’s favorite show?”

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/acquired-podcast-tech-business-history-strategy-90e73603

You see I never went to business school. Where I went to college they didn’t even have business classes. Business was taboo, at least until you graduated. But now business is the most exciting vertical out there, it trumps music, movies, television…

Just look at the AI story.

Now my eyes roll into the back of my head when I hear business school speak. As soon as someone tells me they’re writing up a business plan, I’m out. I run on emotion. Does something feel good. If it does, if you’re willing to dedicate all your time to it, it will be a success. Sure, vision is important, but execution trumps idea every day of the week.

I used to judge people for being out of the loop. But that paradigm died with the internet. There’s so much available that no one can be comprehensive. Not that people still don’t put you down for not knowing about something. I laugh when this happens. This is how people feel superior, and I know how much they don’t know. Actually, that’s part of getting older, in my late teens and early twenties I knew EVERYTHING! I’ve been learning how much I don’t know ever since.

So I found out about the Acquired podcast in e-mail. I’d written about going to Costco and numerous subscribers told me about it. Which indicated to me it was worth checking out. Everything is word of mouth these days, marketing dollars are most often wasted, but even so, unless it’s a trusted source, you have to hear the same story more than once to dive in. And I did, and I did.

And…

Now going back to the top. The two guys who do this podcast are not exactly nobodies from nowhere, but unlike the brand extensions of today’s celebrities, they started from zero. With 500 downloads of their first podcast. Now they get in excess of 500,000 per episode and they make millions.

They started in 2015. A ten year overnight success. With a who’s who of listeners, everybody from Daniel Ek to Eddy Cue. So many would like ear time with those two, but the way you achieve this is by doing something unique in a spectacular fashion. The more successful you are, the less time you have. You can separate the wheat from the chaff. Which is why you can’t get the music exec to listen to your demo, not without a story. They need to hear about you from someone else, they need to see numbers, because their time has been wasted so much in the past.

And in a supposed attention deficit society, where we keep hearing people have short attention spans, the Acquired podcast goes on for HOURS!

And that’s one of the great things about it.

Unlike too many other podcasts, the hosts are not injecting their personalities. Too often you tune into a conversation between buddies, laughing, talking about what they did over the weekend, and you feel left out. You feel included listening to the Acquired podcast. It seems like a secret society. Unlike too many influencers and wannabe musicians they’re not constantly dunning listeners to subscribe and spread the word. When you do this you can’t be taken seriously. Either your work stands for itself or…

Turns out the Costco podcast is legendary, and it’s two hours and fifty three minutes long!

That’s what people want, a deep dive. They have all the time for that which they deem truly interesting. You may denigrate youngsters for swiping quickly online, but if their attention spans are so short, how come they have streaming marathons, watching hours of “Friends” and other series?

But I don’t expect the mainstream to glom on to Acquired, because it’s not sexy in the usual ways. It’s not visual, based on beautiful people. It focuses on people who paid their dues, usually after a boatload of education. The general public doesn’t want to hear this. They want it all, and they want it NOW!

So as much as I knew about Costco…

I learned a ton more.

I knew about Sol Price. I even knew about the legendary Fedco. But what I did not know is when Fedco refused to do business with Sol that Price started a company called FedMart! Which was a juggernaut, and that’s why we have WalMart and Kmart… They were trying to trade off the success of Sol’s FedMart!

And the history is deep, and there’s all this info about margins… 

Costco caps its average margin at 11%. Never charges more than 14% to !5% on any item. It’s all about the relationship with the customer. Who is incredibly loyal. Bands should listen to this podcast. Everybody talks about the Grateful Dead, but they did it by accident, only in retrospect does it look like a plan for success. Where everybody here took risk, but only after having experience and knowing what they were trying to achieve.

And I’d tell you more about the Costco podcast, but I listened it to a week ago and I don’t want to get anything wrong.

Last night I just finished the Formula 1 podcast. It was four and a half hours long, and I could have listened to another four and a half, not a single lick was boring.

Now I’m always wary of reporters, as opposed to those who’ve lived a subject, when the newspaper calls, beware. Most of the time I’m busy informing the writer of the industry. However these two guys who do the Acquired podcast go VERY deep. If you grew up in the vertical maybe you can quibble, but they know they’re starting from zero, but they’re fans of the story, they want to know more and more.

Now of course there are multi-episode podcasts on one subject that last as long, however…

This is old school, it’s the same problem HBO and Apple have. They think they’re increasing audience by doing this. They couldn’t be more wrong. People want it all and they want it now. They want to go deep, they want to marinate, they want to bond with the project and then tell everybody about it. You can be early and own a show that’s dropped all at once. You can watch the latest Netflix production when it drops on Friday and then boast about having seen it, you’re a number one fan, you’re hard core. But by time “White Lotus” drips out its episodes weeks later everybody’s on the same plane, in a world where we’re all looking for status.

Acquired is a club. A pretty large one, but nowhere near as big as those who rule the Spotify Top 50. However, Acquired has a better batting average than the Spotify Top 50. They don’t whiff. And they do it all themselves, except for the addition of an editor. This is what the internet affords, the electronic tools, you can do it and distribute it and if it’s great, people will find it.

Eventually.

Eleven years, that’s how long ago Acquired was started. Imagine telling a musician they’ve got to wait eleven years to reach critical mass.

But that’s the new game. You start off the radar screen, you refine your act in public and when you finally get it right you gain hard core fans that spread the word. That’s your business plan, period.

People want something more quantified, with success much earlier in the game. But almost everything that rises instantly falls just about as fast, that’s what MTV taught us.

Acquired is the sh*t. Check it out, it’s not flashy, but once you start listening, you cannot stop.

Tune in July 4th to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West.

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1. Steve Miller “Fly Like an Eagle”

He hadn’t put out an album in nearly three years and by this point no one was waiting, it appeared he’d fallen off the radar screen. After 1973’s smash “The Joker,” all we got was crickets.

“Fly Like an Eagle” was different from what came before, short songs all radio friendly. It is this album and 1977’s “Book of Dreams” that have sold tickets for Miller ever since.

The initial radio track was “Take the Money and Run,” which immediately hooked the listener. It had an upbeat sound foreign to today’s depressed era. We get hedonism today, but very little optimism.

From there the label went to “Rock’n Me” to the title track and it was truly astounding, Miller had come back with a vengeance, truly bigger than ever.

2. Steely Dan “The Royal Scam”

Steely Dan had an up and down career commercially. The initial LP was an instant smash, as a result of the singles “Do It Again” and “Reelin’ in the Years.”

Despite being the favorite of the cognoscenti, the follow-up “Countdown to Ecstasy” had no hit singles and not much commercial impact.

But then came “Pretzel Logic,” which had “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number,” which was ubiquitous, this sleeker, more jazz-oriented Dan was bigger than ever.

However, 1975’s “Katy Lied” failed to produce a hit single and is talked about very little these days, but I love that album.

I know every lick of 1976’s “The Royal Scam” because I drove from Utah to Connecticut with it in the Blaupunkt, along with five other brand new albums. At this late date “Kid Charlemagne” is well-known, but back then not so much. My favorite cut on the album is “Don’t Take Me Alive”:

“I’m a bookkeeper’s son

I don’t want to hurt no one

Well I crossed my old man back in Oregon

Don’t take me alive”

A bookkeeper is anything but a desperado, and with a specific state mentioned, the story becomes 3-D.

Of course, this is the album with “Everything You Did,” where the desperadoes themselves are mentioned:

“Turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening”

3. Jeff Beck “Wired”

Jeff was riding high after the surprise success of “Blow By Blow, “Wired” was not as good, yet Beck still had relevance, but more on the turntable than the radio, I’m surprised by this high chart position, I don’t remember hearing this stuff on the radio.

4. James Taylor “In the Pocket”

The second collaboration with Lenny Waronker and Russ Titelman, “In the Pocket” was a little less upbeat. But there are some amazing tracks. I used to point everyone to “Shower the People” all these years later, it was a hit, but ultimately it was deep and truthful, it was this insight we wanted from our artists:

“Once you tell somebody

The way that you feel

You can feel it beginning to ease

I think it’s true what they say

About the squeaky wheel

Always getting the grease”

But the true height of the album comes on the second side, the trilogy of “Captain Jim’s Drunken Dream” to “Don’t Be Sad ‘Cause Your Sun Is Down” to “Nothing Like a Hundred Miles”

“There’s nothing like a hundred miles between me and trouble in my mind”

Ain’t that the truth.

Then again, used to be when you drove that distance you were truly disconnected, not anymore.

But the piece-de-resistance is:

“Up here I’m a whisky bum but down there I’m a king”

You’re a king in one place, but it doesn’t mean anything when you take the fish out of water.

5. Chicago “X”

Really? By this point they were really a Top 40 band. Where they had a presence with Peter Cetera’s “If You Leave Me Now.” The days of the hard-charging debut were gone, the edges had been shorn off.

6. Carly Simon “Another Passenger”

It had her version of the Doobie Brothers “It Keep You Runnin’,” and “Radio & Records” was the Bible, but I never heard this album on the coasts, where I lived.

7. Marshall Tucker Band “Long Hard Ride”

They’d moved in a more country direction, but they still had a presence on AOR.

8. Aerosmith “Rocks”

They were truly back in the saddle, with a monster album that followed up “Toys in the Attic.” From there it was downhill until the Geffen days.

9. Gordon Lightfoot “Summertime Dream”

This is the one with “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” but despite his folk pedigree, by this point AOR rocked harder and Gord was seen as a Top 40 act, where he had some big successes.

10. Wings “At the Speed of Sound”

The worst of the three, the trilogy from “Band on the Run” to “Venus and Mars” to  this. “Venus and Mars” is unduly overlooked, it might be lighter than “Band on the Run,” but it’s a great summer album, I love it.

All the attention was on “Silly Love Songs,” but it was the album tracks that make this LP. “Beware My Love” and “Time to Hide and “Warm and Beautiful.”

McCartney had peaks, but he has never been consistently this good since.

11. Firefall “Firefall”

They had their moment, but if you weren’t there, you don’t know, never mind remember.

12. “Southside Johnny” “I Don’t Want to Go Home.

Springsteen had broken through and he tried to pull Southside Johnny over the transom, however…

It was really a good bar band, a really good bar band, but that was it. This was the debut, the title track especially is very good, but with all the hype and the ultimate disappointment, despite more albums, the general public moved on from Southside Johnny.

13. Rolling Stones “Black and Blue”

I don’t think you could get away with that title today, never mind the bondage billboard.

This was a hodgepodge, trying out different replacements for Mick Taylor before they settled on Ronnie Wood and surprised everybody with 1978’s “Some Girls.”

I never liked the single “Fool to Cry,” but there are two great tracks on this album, “Memory Motel” has been resurrected as a result of the live duet with Dave Matthews, but “Hand of Fate” still has not gotten the recognition it deserves.

14. Grateful Dead “Steal Your Face”

The last LP on the band’s own label, it was neither a gigantic seller nor a big radio presence, despite this high chart number. Then again, it had just been released on June 26th.

15. Blue Oyster Cult “Agents of Fortune”

This is the one with “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper,” but in truth, it was all downhill from the debut, which was MARVELOUS!

16. Doobie Brothers “Takin It to the Streets”

This was the first LP with Michael McDonald, and although good, it was a complete change from what had come before. Tom Johnston was barely on it, and then left the group. The band soldiered on and then surprised everybody by resurfacing with “Minute by Minute” two albums later, in 1978

17. Boz Scaggs “Silk Degrees”

To say this was unexpected…

You have no idea how big this album was unless you were conscious back then. It was the favorite of women, they bought it and played it in their apartments and…you heard it everywhere.

One can argue it’s so good because of David Paich’s songwriting chops. Expectations were high for the follow-up, “Down Two Then Left,” however…sans Paich, it just didn’t hit the mark, and Boz never reached anywhere near these heights again. But for a moment there…

18. George Benson “Breezin'”

This is when he gained mainstream success, you can attribute the subsequent infiltration of soft jazz to this album, even though Benson had cred, a lot of dreck followed him. With this album, George became a household name.

19. Thin Lizzy “Jailbreak”

This is the one with “The Boys Are Back in Town.” And after that they dropped off the radio and never returned.

20. Todd Rundgren “Faithful”

The first side proved Rundgren’s chops as a producer, player and engineer, but side two of the LP, the one with the originals, was the heart of the album. “Love of the Common Man” and “The Verb ‘To Love'” are excellent.

21. Peter Frampton “Frampton Comes Alive!”

He’d already come alive on AOR, the summer of ’76 is when he penetrated Top 40.

22. Heart “Dreamboat Annie”

Unknown act on an unknown label produced by an unknown producer in Vancouver, far from the beaten track. But all you had to do was hear it. Kinda like “More Than a Feeling” later in the year.

This album had actually come out in 1975, but it was still being played. The one-two punch of “Crazy on You” to “Magic Man”…who were these people!

They had a soft side, but really they were straight ahead rockers, overnight they were part of the firmament. I’ve got a half-speed mastered vinyl album of this recording, it’s FANTASTIC, which is surprising, you wouldn’t expect such clarity considering the people who made it and where they made it.

23. Andy Pratt “Resolution”

I bought it, but really it was about the 1973 Columbia debut with “Avenging Annie,” he never reached those heights again, either in quality or sales.

He came from a rich family…

24. Jethro Tull “Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll: Too Young to Die”

After the blues-influenced debut with Mick Abrahams the audience loved Tull, but the critics never did. Even at this late date, the act was getting airplay, especially with the title track of this LP, but they’d burned out the audience with “A Passion Play,” which was a redo of the concept of the previous breakthrough “Thick as a Brick,” but not as good. You can only stunt once, do not repeat yourself.

And then, in 1987, an album that whose tracks were picked by focus group, was all over the airwaves. It was “Crest of a Knave” that won the metal Grammy everybody thought Metallica deserved.

Ian  Anderson didn’t even go to the ceremony, but somehow he’s been tarred by the inanity of the Grammy voters. I mean it wasn’t his fault.

Tull still gets no respect, but it deserves it. But the same critics who pooh-poohed the band refuse to induct it into the Rock Hall. Wankers…

25. Spirit “Farther Along”

The band had broken in two, and despite a good track here and there, neither the latter-day Spirit nor Jo Jo Gunne really had any commerciality.

Once again, as is the case with a lot of the unsuccessful records in this chart, this album had just been released, and stations were giving it some spins before they dropped it.

26. Jay Ferguson “All Alone in the End Zone”

Did you know he became a soundtrack composer when the hits dried up?

Jo Jo Gunne had broken up. This album was not highly anticipated and it did not sell. No one foresaw the success of “Thunder Island” the following year.

27. City Boy “City Boy”

The act had some success in the U.K., got some reviews over here, I actually bought it, but it’s the backstory that makes this album interesting.

Clive Calder, Ralph Simon and Mutt Lange left South Africa where they’d been cutting soundalike records and dropping them before their official releases to come to London and play in the big leagues. Produced by Mutt, this was the beginning of the juggernaut, not that anybody knew it back then.

28. Billy Joel “Turnstiles”

It had come out in May, and if you think Billy meant much on rock radio after “Piano Man,” you’re misinformed or delusional. He did get some airplay with “The Entertainer,” and “Los Angelenos” from the second Columbia LP, but by the time of this third, Billy was making his bones on the road. It wasn’t until he hooked up with Phil Ramone on the following year’s “The Stranger” that he became the Billy Joel revered today.

“Turnstiles” suffers from Billy’s production and less than crystal clear engineering…the sound may not be right, but there are some FANTASTIC songs on this. This is the LP with “New York State of Mind,” which may be a standard now, but was not a single back then. And it also has “Summer, Highland Falls” and “Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway,” and I’d say I’d have liked to have seen Billy rerecord “Turnstiles” with Ramone, but in reality he did, on 1981’s “Songs in the Attic.” There they truly come alive, it’s Billy’s best work.

29. Santana “Amigos”

It was over, sans the original band most people were not paying attention.

30. Tubes “Young and Rich”

A grave disappointment after their Al Kooper-produced debut the previous year, but it does include “Don’t Touch Me There.”

31. Charlie Daniels “Saddle Tramp”

This was back when he was still a rocker, before “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” and the turn to country. He’d had “The South’s Gonna Do It” from two albums before, from “Fire on the Mountain,” but I don’t remember this album having any presence on rock radio.

32. Jerry Jeff Walker “It’s a Good Night for Singin'”

I think even Jerry Jeff would be surprised he’s this high on the chart.

33. Fleetwood Mac “Fleetwood Mac”

Other than the Frampton album, this is the biggest LP on the chart. But it took a long time to percolate in the marketplace, yet despite being released nearly a year and a half earlier, this music was still regularly played on the radio.

34. Ben Sidran “Free in America”

Clive Davis had actually given him a major label deal. But Clive couldn’t make Ben a household name.

35. Harry Nilsson “…That’s the Way It Is”

The way it was was Harry had blown out his voice on 1974’s “Pussy Cats” and although that album sold on his name…

Once bitten, twice shy.

36. Bob Marley & the Wailers “Rastaman Vibration”

He didn’t live up to the hype, true Jamaican reggae had not gone mainstream. Johnny Nash and Paul Simon had hits, but Bob Marley was not a household name. But he ultimately became one, with the release of “Live” in the U.S.

“One good thing about music

When it hits, you feel no pain”

37. Leon & Mary Russell “Wedding Album”

Leon had seemed to lose the plot, we read about him, but we didn’t listen to him.

38. Chris Hillman “Slippin’ Away”

I bought this album, other than Andy Somers, I don’t know anybody else who did. It’s actually pretty good!

39. Toot & the Maytals “Reggae Got Soul” 

I did hear the title track on the radio, but Toots never really broke big up here.

40. Sons of Champlin “Circle Filled with Love”

All you’ve got to know is this album came out on Ariola America, after the band was on Capitol and Columbia. Bill had his greatest success with Chicago.

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