Song for Friday: Looking Glass – Brandy

Brandy by Looking Glass. Pure 70s cheeseball. Great hair, outstanding sideburns and the shirts...OMG

This "One Hit Wonder" was a product of Rutgers University, New Jersey. Damn I am proud of my home state. Believe it or not Brandy was only #1 for 1 week in August 1972. And what year that was for music: Don McClean - American Pie, Derek and the Dominoes - Layla, Alice Cooper - Schools Out and the Carpenters - Top of the World.

A bit of unconfirmed trivia is that "Brandy" was the B-side of another Looking Glass song, and is rumored to have become an accidental hit when a DJ played the wrong side of the 45.

Here to help you can sing along:

"Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)"

(As recorded by Looking Glass)
ELLIOT LURIE

There's a port on a western bay
And it serves a hundred ships a day
Lonely sailors pass the time away
And talk about their homes

And there's a girl, in this harbor town
And she works, laying whiskey down
They say "Brandy, fetch another round"
She serves them whiskey and wine

The sailors say "Brandy, you're a fine girl
What a good wife you would be
Yeah your eyes could steal a sailor
From the sea."

Brandy, wears a braided chain
Made of finest silver from the north of Spain
A locket, that bears the name
Of a man that Brandy loved

He came, on a summer's day
Bringing gifts, from far away
But he made it clear, he couldn't stay
No harbor was his home

The sailors said "Brandy, you're a fine girl
What a good wife you would be
But my life, my lover, my lady
Is the sea."

Yeah Brandy used to watch his eyes when he told his sailor's story
She could feel the ocean fall and rise, she saw it's raging glory
But he had always told the truth, Lord he was an honest man
And Brandy does her best to understand

At night, when the bars close down
Brandy walks through a silent town
And loves a man, who's not around
She still can hear him say, she hears him say

"Brandy, you're a fine girl
What a good wife you would be
But my life, my lover, my lady
Is the sea"

"Brandy, you're a fine girl
What a good wife you would be
But my life, my lover, my lady
Is the sea"

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