Starring in the hit series, Lynda Carter gave television audiences something they had never seen before: an icon of a strong, empowered - and sexy - female action hero.Ĭarter told "20/20's" JuJu Chang she enjoyed portraying a role model for children. In the '70s, when action stars were all men, Wonder Woman was both beauty and brawn. In a bit part in this episode, you’ll notice Rick Springfield (dressed all in red in the clip below, he made his first WW guest appearance in January 1978 in the “Screaming Javelin” episode), still two years away from releasing his breakthrough RCA album, Working Class Dog, with its smash single, “Jessie’s Girl,” and starring in the General Hospital soap, both in early 1981.Īs an aside, this writer met Rick when he wandered into the Music Plus Records store in Glendale, an L.A.J— - She was an Amazon princess: voluptuous, but tough as nails. The episode was titled, “Amazon Hot Wax,” taking off on the title of the 1978 movie about rock music and radio, American Hot Wax. In Season 3 of Wonder Woman (and airing in February 1979), Lynda is given a plot line that offers her the opportunity to tub-thump her new album by singing a couple songs from it! Parker Gabriel of IMDb expounds on the credulity-stretching premise: “Diana Prince poses as a singer, using the cover identity of ‘Kathy Meadows,’ so that, as Wonder Woman, she can crack a record-extortion ring” while singing the song, “Toto (Don’t It Feel Like Paradise),” from Portrait. In 2015, MeTV called the overall vibe of the album as “pure soft rock gold, somewhere between Anne Murray and Christine McVie.” The Inevitable: The Super Hero Sings! But, Will it Bring Down Her Arch-Nemesis? Tom Saviano arranged the horn section (as he did for the Pomeranz album), and the late Barry Fasman (who passed away in November 2021, and was Jose Feliciano’s former music director) pulled the strings.ĪllMusic’s Monger wrote that Carter, on Portrait, possessed enough talent as a vocalist to be taken seriously beyond her Wonder Woman fame: “Her voice is tuneful and pleasantly husky, and the material is delivered with confidence.” Monger ranked the album 3 stars out of 5, and wrote that the album’s main failing was too many mediocre songs that made the album competent, but undistinguished. On the Portrait sessions were Art Munson and Clark Garman on guitar, Bill Cuomo (who co-wrote Steve Perry’s solo 1984 hit, “Oh Sherrie”) on keyboards, Colin Cameron on bass, and Ralph Humphrey on drums. Here, David (who has landed 2 hits with Barry Manilow, including 1976’s Top Ten “Tryin’ to Get the Feeling Again”) duets on his song with Filipina singer/actor/TV host, Sharon Cuneta: Track #12, included on a 2013 re-issue (but not on the original ‘78 release), is “If You Walked Away” by singer/songwriter, David Pomeranz, who originally sang it on his 1975 Arista Records album, It’s In Every One of Us (like Lynda’s album, produced by Vini Poncia). “Toto (Don't It Feel Like Paradise)” (Lynda Carter, C. “You're the Only One Who Understands” (Charles Clinton Smith) – 4:22 “Want to Get Beside You” (Lynda Carter, Don Dunn, Art Munson) – 4:06 “Just One Look” (Gregory Carroll, Doris Payne) – 2:34 “Tumbledown Love” (Don Dunn, Bob Siller) – 4:44 “She's Always a Woman” (Billy Joel) – 3:09 (RCA/Canada) folk singer/songwriter, Bob Siller (whose 1968 LP is shown here): There are also three songs written by former ABC/Dunhill Records/U.S. Produced by Vini Poncia (who shows up on an FR&B GROW BIGGER EARS Playlist of “I Love You” songs Poncia co-wrote, with Phil Spector and Pete Anders, The Ronettes’ “Do I Love You?” ), Portrait features three Lynda co-writes, and covers of a Billy Joel and a Doris Troy song. She eventually landed in L.A., and in 1975 earned the acting role which made her an icon, but music had been a major part of her life and she now had the power and connections to pick up that thread.” “As it turns out, long before she wielded the lasso of truth or flew an invisible jet, Carter had sung in bands as an Arizona teenager, even dropping out of college to pursue a short-lived music career in San Francisco. Fortunately, hers was an indulgence worth taking. “Following the second season of her wildly successful turn as the star of CBS’s Wonder Woman television series, actress Lynda Carter crossed over into the pop world with her recording debut. Timothy Monger from AllMusic : “It's easy to discount crossover albums by Hollywood stars as either a publicity stunt or the indulgence of a celebrity at the peak of their popularity.
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