MP3:
Thomas Stephen Smith - Fresh Start (3:25)
This is a 7" I picked up for 25 cents at my local library, if I remember correctly. I couldn't find a single thing about the artist, let alone the record. I'm guessing it's from the 80s.
It's weird and great because:
a. It's a Christian record, but you don't even realize until a third of the way through, and
b. It sounds like the theme song for an 80s sitcom that never was.
Like a Christian "Perfect Strangers." A friend pointed out that Mark Linn-Baker would probably also star in this one.
Credits go to T.S. Smith and Zondervan Fiesta (I'm totally naming my next kid that).
- Contributed by: Ryan MacMichael
Image: Record
Media: 7" Single - Same track on both sides
Label: Milk & Honey
Catalog: MPD 1030
Credits: T.S. Smith and Zondervan Fiesta
Otis
This is a great post
Thanks to you Ryan also
I watched "Perfect Strangers" all the time
and didn't know they put out this 45 single for the show
Many of those Gary Marshall sitcoms released "tie-in"
singles - such as "Making Our Dreams Come True" (Cyndi Grecco)
and "Rock Around the Clock" (Bill Haley) for Happy Days
and "Movin' On Up" (Good Times) by the great Curtis Mayfield
thanks again for this post
Where IS Mark Linn-Baker these days?!
: )
SM
Posted by: Sanjaya Malakar | March 24, 2007 at 01:37 PM
Fresh Start is taped before a live studio audience!
Posted by: Scott Mercer | March 25, 2007 at 07:22 AM
Thomas Stephen (A.K.A.'Moose")Smith recorded at least three albums 1976-1981
Housetop records, (Call of the Moose) on Zondervan records and Milk and Honey. I knew him, met in 1977 when he was band director for 700 Club TV show in Virginia Beach, VA. I really like his lyrical approach to Christian music.
Posted by: Buck Buchanan | July 19, 2007 at 10:33 PM
I would really like to find Moose Smith. I worked with him briefly and am interested in doing some of his music. Any ideas how to reach him????
Posted by: Curtis Campbell | July 29, 2009 at 03:58 PM