Midnight Blue

You know?

But although George was quite naughty during this time, he has got his limits and he's going to address this in the next track, Tide of Midnight Blue.

So abbreviating this, Tide of Midnight Blue, it becomes Tomb, which is pretty fitting because this track's written about some sleazy old men in a Los Angeles club.

So he ended up in these clubs.

He ended up being in the back with, and I quote, a lot of grey haired, naughty people.

nah i'm never gonna want to hear that though fuck you

people understand

Talking of lawsuits from George, this song was originally called Midnight Blue and I think the last thing he wanted was another claim because in the exact same year, Melissa Manchester released a track of the exact same name and it was charting pretty well.

But then I say, oh, my God, this woman has done so much.

And I'm going to do things in a different order, because your first hit, if I remember correctly, was Midnight Blue, right? Yes.

1973.

But you just re-recorded or recently re-recorded that song with none other than Dolly Parton.

Yes, exactly right.

And so I was driving out of Houston, Texas.

I was on this endless, exhausting tour, and I heard Midnight Blue on the radio for the first time, and I thought, wow.

You know, I had heard myself on the radio doing jingles, but to actually hear the song, remember being in the studio when I played it, and the orchestrations, it was just...