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Peter Cross is the songwriter, the lead singer and he also sings all the harmony tracks, plus he's the arranger and the producer.

Commentary:

I wrote this song in 1973 and recorded a version of it at the Record Plant with Gary Kelgren. The song was about how my band needed a short term loan to get Uncle Sam off our backs because we had screwed up our tax returns. We expected to be enjoying fame and fortune generated by our smash hit record and a banker's son who was hanging around the band in order to pick up a spare groupie for himself decides to loan us some money but he wants 90% just like a record company, what a coincidence. The song was good and my band really believed we had a hit but the recording of the song was not as good as we all thought it was and the record companies rejected it. Many years passed and I forgot about it.

In April of 1994, I rediscovered this song on an old cassette tape that I had stored in a box in my attic. The tape also contained Too Young to be Lonely and Sweet Pain, and when I heard these songs again and was impressed by how good the recordings were, I was inspired to to go back into a recording studio after many years of not playing music at all to complete the tracks and make them perfect.

Peter is the singer standing up at the mic on the left

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