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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:

Favorite Toy is the first song I ever wrote that was performed in a band (Steam) in front of a live audience, and it was specifically written to showcase the dubious talents of the drummer (who else?). The lyrics have no particular meaning, they just express some vague teenage sexual imagery and ethic, and the music is intended to be classic Who type rock and roll. Even though Favorite Toy was performed by many different bands over the years, it was always played exactly the same way because the drummer and singer was always me. Favorite Toy was recorded first by Steam, later by two different versions of Magic, and for the last time in 1994 by me and my studio musicians. It was a dead song at that time because the first three versions stunk and also because I had stopped playing drums due to a terminal case of tendonitis.

Favorite Toy was resurrected because Jason and Alex liked it best of all my songs. In 1994, they asked me to record it again and after telling them that it couldn't be done because I couldn't play drums anymore and I didn't know anybody who could play like I used to be able to play, I found an old Record Plant master tape of the second Magic's version and it turned out that all the tracks were salvageable. All the tracks were lousy except for the drum tracks, so starting with the saved drum tracks I began recording the other tracks again. It took me 30 years to get Favorite Toy right in the studio, and that was way too many years for me to get anything right but it is perfect now, note for note the way I first heard it in my mind in 1969 when I wrote it. So after all these years . . . why don't you "tell me what's your Favorite Toy?"

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

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