Thursday, November 12, 2020

"Just What It Takes" by Roger Voudouris

Roger Voudouris was a singer and songwriter from California who made a brief chart appearance in 1979 when "Get Used To It" reached #21. Surprisingly, he was not able to leverage this minor hit into a sustainable chart career to make himself a hard-to-pronounce household name.

The single came from his sophomore record, "Radio Dreams," which also contains one of his more upbeat rockers, "Just What It Takes." He followed this LP with 1981's "On The Heels Of Love," a record full of ballads in the style of Christopher Cross or Michael McDonald but without the memorable hooks. Strangely, he won over bigger audiences in Japan. 

Voudouris passed away in 2003 from liver disease at the age of 48.


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