Sunday, time for a classic.
"Listen to the Music" is a song recorded by THE DOOBIE BROTHERS on their second album "Toulouse Street". This tune was THE DOOBIE BROTHERS' first big hit in 1972, it remains a concert staple and is one of The Doobie Brothers' biggest hits.[citation needed] This song is usually played as the last song at THE DOOBIE BROTHERS' concerts. It was written by Tom Johnston, who also played guitar on the track.
Tom Johnston says about this time: "It was all based around this somewhat Utopian view of the world. The idea was that music would lift man up to a higher plane, and that world leaders, if they were able to sit down on some big grassy knoll where the sun was shining and hear music - such as the type I was playing - would figure out that everybody had more in common than they had not in common, and it was certainly not worth getting in such a bad state of affairs about. Everybody in the world would therefore benefit from this point of view. Just basically that music would make everything better. And of course I've since kind of realized it doesn't work that way."
The studio recording used both a banjo and a prominent flanging effect, audible from the bridge until the fadeout. When released as a single by Warner Bros.
The commercial success of "Listen to the Music" helped the album "Toulouse Street" rise on the charts. The song remains a staple of adult contemporary and classic rock radio. The band also uses it as an encore song during live shows. Patrick Simmons, the second guitarist and vocalist in the group, sings the bridge of the song.
During the 1982 Farewell Tour, the song was the last one played on the set list as the encore with drummer Keith Knudsen singing the lead vocal.
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