Eddie Schwartz - Public Life

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Cult AOR from Canada

From the famous bootleg label Unforgotten Jewels

Original 1984/94 Warner/Unforgotten Jewels

Near Mint condition

Credits:

Rick Derringer - Guitar
Eddie Schwartz - Guitar, Vocals
Jimmy Bralower - Drums
Michael Braun - Drums
Gary Craig - Drums
David Tyson - Bass, Glockenspiel, Keyboards, Vocals
Peter Follett - Guitars

Tracks:

1. Don't Come to Me
2. Feed the Fire
3. Special Girl
4. Times Square Heart
5. Not Tonight
6. I've Had Enough
7. Strike
8. Passing Ships (The Ballad of Henry and Lucy)

Pulled from the same pocket as Eric Carmen and Leo Sayer, soft rocker Eddie Schwartz is better known as the man who wrote Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" than for anything he's ever sung, but his 1984 album Public Life did provide a couple of minor hits. "Don't Come to Me" was an after hours type love song with a sleepy pace, and "Special Girl" oozed attractively in its own schlock candor, covered just as well by America a short time later. "Strike" had a short stint on radio as well, rounding out the album's most worthy attributes. Guitarist Rick Derringer plays a few mediocre solos throughout the eight tunes, but it's not enough to release the album from it's banal grasp. Schwartz did have a hit on Billboard two years earlier though, hitting number 28 with "All Our Tomorrows," which incorporated the same amative recipe as the songs on this album.

Songwriter Eddie Schwartz played guitar for Charity Brown's backing band in the mid-'70s and signed with Infinity Records for a solo contract in 1979. Though his solo albums of the early '80s (including Schwartz, No Refuge and Public Life) weren't successful, he achieved second-hand fame when Pat Benatar recorded his song "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" in 1980.

Over 100 other artists have recorded his songs!

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Eddie Schwartz - Public Life