What can you do? Some songs just fly towards you, drill into your musical consciousness – and trigger something in you. Music can do that. Maybe only the music. Sometimes it’s great compositions, sometimes sad melodies and sometimes it’s rhythms and harmonies that spontaneously make you feel a little better.
The latter is achieved – at least by me – by the song “Right Back Where We Started From”, sung by Maxine Nightingale. A real disco howler from 1975. No bells and whistles, no virtuoso subtleties, no enigmatic lyrics, but three minutes of concentrated load in a good mood. Allegedly Pierre Tubbs- and J. Vincent Edwards, two songwriters in the Motown tradition, wrote the track within seven minutes. All in one go – and that’s how the song sounds. Seven minutes that probably changed the lives of the two authors from the ground up. After all, the track conquered the charts almost worldwide in the mid-70s. But I still have a very special relationship to the song: The song belongs to the soundtrack of the ice hockey movie “Schlappschuss” (with Paul Newman), which I have been watching for about 20 years just before Christmas. One has so its traditions …
