Gary Wright - Love Is Alive (Midnight Special, 1976) video free download


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Uploaded: 2007/06/12

Keyboardist/Songwriter Gary Wright performing "Love Is Alive" on the Midnight Special TV show, 1976. Featuring a young Steve Porcaro {keyboards for TOTO, Michael Jackson, Herb Alpert, Pablo Cruise, Brothers Johnson, etc.} on synthesizers along with rockin' ladies on cowbell + tambourine ;-) Awesome Minimoog bass. Enjoy this great song from the 70's decade of musical innovation, legendary songwriting & musicianship

*IN CASE YOU ARE WONDERING! who the great female cowbell player is...

update heard from Gary Wright:

The woman beating the daylights out of the cowbell is his sister Lorna!

also, from the music man himself: Pete Reilich, playing Arp String Ensemble and Clavinet. Seen at 2:58

Keep that love alive it's a very powerful tool.

-= Lyrics =- ♪ ♫

Well, I think it's time to get ready

To realize just what I have found

I have lived only half of what I am

It's all clear to me now -

My heart is on fire

My soul's like a wheel that's turnin'

My love is alive

There's something inside that's making me crazy

I'll try to keep it together

'Cause what I say may not happen the same way

Now could be, forever...

My heart is on fire

My soul's like a wheel that's turnin'

My love is alive

My love is alive,

There's a mirror moving, inside my mind

Reflecting the love that you shine on me=-

Hold on now to that feelin'..

Let it flow, let it grow, ya, ya

My heart is on fire

My soul's like a wheel that's turnin'

My love is alive =-

ENJOY THE MUSIC!: )-~

Comments

7 years ago

Shelley Ship

I love this song.

7 years ago

Todd Little

It's a crime there isn't a version of this out there from MS with better quality audio.

7 years ago

Frank Lee Stanonis

And the tambourine, now that I think of it.

7 years ago

Frank Lee Stanonis

I agree with a lot of the posters here. Have been a GW fan all the way back to1975. But I have to also agree that the cowbell as an instrument, has been terribly overlooked!!!!!!

7 years ago

shadoworld58

That is a badass live performance right there. Love the chicks and dude on the Moog.

7 years ago

nofrop

We need more cowbell

7 years ago

My Gentle Pitt Bull

1976 great yr, bicentennial and only one more year left in the Marine Corps.

7 years ago

tp10488

Nice boots, Gary!

7 years ago

el bee

Spooky Tooth Rocks On!

7 years ago

Bradley Coleman

Ozark brought me here!

8 years ago

doctorjingles

I love how she's beating the SHIT out of that cowbell.

8 years ago

Dwindmill

3rd Base

8 years ago

Michael Bauers

I did some googling to try to understand the strap on keyboard being played. Never heard of such a thing back in mid 1970s. As it did not look like any synthesizer of the time I presumed it had to be a controller only keyboard. But MIDI didn't come out for five more years or so. I found one article which claimed Moog created this controller. I can't be sure, but seeing how Gary Wright was known to use Minimoog, maybe it was hooked to a Minimoog via a cable ( and would have carried control voltage signals.)

8 years ago

Grandios59

Awesome tune of the mid 70-ties. Great performance by Steve "the Brain" Porcaro.

8 years ago

crazze6163

Wow the keytar, haven't seen one them since the 70's. .....lol

8 years ago

NYC girl

I miss The Midnight Special. Great show.

8 years ago

Anthony O'Neill

Hell ya!! More cowbell!!

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