Bradley's Buzz

The holy grail in Lisa Hartman music, this is the CD all the Knots knuts really want - full of rare televison and movie songs from my Lisa, Could Be Magic had a lot of research, a lot of time and a lot of love put into it. My pal Shae came up with the music, very hard to find and very hard to manipulate but he did it, cuz well he's super cool that way - and then I took those songs and manipulated and "remasterd" as best I could.

The problem wiht movie and TV songs are the lengths and the background noise in them - a lot of songs are cut mid way to cut to another scene, some are done at the beginning and then the show cuts to another scene before going back to the song, and for those Shae was awesome in putting some songs together. I tried to put the more perfect songs at the beginning and go from there - for some of these though edited versions of a real song are complete songs in themselves.

For most fans they want the songs Lisa sang on Knots Landing. In her first stint on the show when she played Ciji Dunne, Lisa did a lot of songs she recorded herself on her Letterock album but there were moments of different songs in Ciji's catalog including an excellant version of "Sometimes When We Touch" and Journey's "Open Arms" though it should be noted the Journey song was never done in one full scene so it's one that had to be meshed together, and a thrill for many, a version of "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" sung with Julie Harris that the characters of Ciji and Lilimae sang at a block party.

When Lisa returned to Knots Landing the following year as Cathy Geary her singing was fairly limited, Gary caught her singing Journey's "Separate Ways" at a bar towards the end of the season and the only other time she sang was at the piano in the ranch where she finished a full verse of Linda Ronstadt's "Love Has No Pride" before being interrupted.

But the following season, Cathy got a job singing at Isadora's and then went onto her boy's religious program so she was like a walking performing American Top 40 singing the hits of 1984-85 and continuing the following season (her last on the show). So we get a ton of little gems, some are full completions (though like I said they are shorter versions of the real song) including Corey Hart's "Never Surrender", "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (which was done as a kind of mini video in the series), Pat Benatar's "We Belong", Survivor's "The Search Is Over", Foreigner's "That Was Yesterday", Rick Springfield's "Love Somebody" ( a real highlight though it's too bad it's one of those that had to be meshed together), a wonderful cover of Bee Gee's "Words" and the ultimate in fan favs the synthesized religious "Jehovah".

But Lisa performed elsewhere as well including her stint as Neely O'Hara in Valley Of The Dolls '81 where she rocked it out with Could Be Magic's opening track "However Dark The Night" and a different take of "Why Baby" which would end up on her Letterock album.

Also included is another rarity that is thrilling in how well I got it to sound, the theme song "It Could Be Magic" from her short lived 1977 sitcom Tabitha. There's also some songs from a TV special Lisa did in early 1979 entitled The Lisa Hartman Show : Hot Stuff - we have the title of that show here (no, it's not a Donna Summer cover which would've been so cool), and a duet with Ricci Martin (different Ricci than Ricky) who is the son of Dean Martin and starred with Lisa in the movie Just Tell Me You Love Me; here the duo take on Kenny Loggins/Stevie Nicks with a version of "Whenver I Call You 'Friend'" and also from the special is what I do believe is Shae's favorite - a rousing version of the Beatles' "The Long & Winding Road".

The 39 song Could Be Magic may seem a little dauntng but you have to remember a lot of these are about 2 minutes long at best with most of the second half of the compilation comprised of songs that just end because the scene was cut. But for the Lisa Hartman enthusiast this is a real find.

LISA HARTMAN - COULD BE MAGIC (bub55) Track List: 01. However Dark The Night 02. Sometimes When We Touch 03. Why Me? 04. The Long & Winding Road 05. Love Somebody 06. Never Surrender 07. Words 08. How Am I Supposed To Live Without You 09. Love Don't Live Here Anymore 10. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) 11. We Belong 12. I Can Dream About You 13. Jehovah 14. Whenever I Call You Friend 15. Open Arms 16. Dancing In The Street 17. The Race Is On 18. The Search Is Over 19. That Was Yesterday 20. It Could Be Magic 21. Will The Circle Be Unbroken 22. Why Baby '81 23. Ease On Down The Road 24. Where The Boys Are Live 25. You're The One 26. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow 27. Love Has No Pride 28. Beat Of A Heart 29. Games - Alternate Version 30. Time After Time 31. Let's Be Lovers Tonight 32. If Love Must Go - piano version 33. Don't Tell Me About It 34. Don't You Love Me Anymore - Alternate 35. Tender Evening 36. Caroline 37. Something's Not Right 38. Hot Stuff 39. Run Around

updated 10/15/10:

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Cathy Geary singing "Jehovah" on Joshua's television show which starts at 1:06 but before that is a GREAT GREAT scene with Joan Van Ark as Val and Julie Harris as her Mama Lilimae in a scene everyone calls "the perm scene" it's so cool - but then check out Jehovah:

Cathy - in a super kewl blue dress - doing my girl Benatar's We Belong