{"id":21863,"date":"2010-10-19T09:41:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T16:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=21863"},"modified":"2024-05-13T15:01:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T22:01:28","slug":"a-pop-sax-solo-from-the-80s-waiting-for-a-star-to-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2010\/a-pop-sax-solo-from-the-80s-waiting-for-a-star-to-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pop Sax Solo From The 80s: Waiting For A Star To Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

If any of you are old enough to remember the 80s, you might recall that it was a decade full of pop songs that featured sax solos of varying lengths. This morning, as my clock radio woke me up to one of those memorable tunes, I started to think about all those great\u2014and not so great\u2014songs from the decade of excess, that featured our instrument.<\/p>\n

So with Super Tramp’s The Logical Song<\/em> fresh in my mind, I decided that it would interesting to see how easy it would be to find 80s songs on YouTube that featured sax solos. As I suspected, it wasn’t hard. As a matter of fact, it was too easy. The plethora of choices was so great that I became overwhelmed, and couldn’t figure out which to choose for today’s post.<\/p>\n

In the end I chose a tune that was simple and upbeat, and by a band\u2014that like so many\u2014seemed to fade out of existence in the blink of an eye.<\/p>\n

Boy Meets Girl’s Waiting For A Star To Fall,<\/em> seems to have been a prophetic title for what would become of the band’s music career. None the less, this tune is firmly entrenched in the consciousness of those of us who came of age in the 80s.<\/p>\n

For us, Boy Meets Girl will live on\u2014as will the sax riff that intros the song, and the solo that comes right after the bridge. <\/p>\n