Title: “Took the last train”
Format: Single
Written by: David Gates
Performed by: David Gates
Genre: Pop
Taken from: The Goodbye Girl
Year: 1978
Acclaim: Meh, no. 30 in the US. Nothing like the title track did.
I was always a fan of Bread. That's the band, not the food. A lot of people give them stick for the same reasons they deride Air Supply – that they were basically a love songs band – and for much of their career that is true. Standards like “Baby I'm-a want you”, “If” and “Make it with you” were huge hits for them in the seventies and remain classics today. However this is from lead singer David Gates's solo album, which was also the soundtrack to the Neil Simon movie
The Goodbye Girl, which in itself gave Gates his only major hit. I love that song, but I like this one too.
Things I like about this :
1. The sort of Latin, bossa-nova beat
2. The jangly guitar
3. The semi-French chorus
4. Saxamaphone
Things I don't like about this:
Nothing
Rating: 