Maureen McGovern - Different Worlds (theme to the TV show Angie)

One of only two Top 40 hits for Mo.

The Morning After is one of my fave songs of the 70s.

I love the pic (left side) in op's post. Kylie Minogue tried to replicate that look circa 2002.

One of the most successful celebrity rhinoplasties, no?

Bobbed.

Yes R4 and R5

Today I’m gonna listen to my Maureen McGovern playlist on repeat!!

They made it too small for her face, R5. Could have been a happy, more natural-looking medium.

Too small? I don't think so.

Nah. They found the happy medium.

One day when I grow up I will live in an apartment with a private rooftop garden

Self sacrificing

^ better quality

Did she ever say anything about Carol Lynley?

She really does/did have a spectacular voice.

simply the best, pop music used to be pretty, i miss that

Too saccharine. Too much modulation. I understand it's disco and all, but it's too much.

Didn't she also do the theme from The Towering Inferno?

And she played the singing nun in the movie Airplane (1980).

R17, you don't understand what "disco" means, apparently. There is nothing disco about Maureen McGovern. To hear how she aged, go listen to the OBC recording of Little Women; she has two knock-out numbers.

Pivot to Poseidon...Were Nonnie and her (soon to be dead) brother supposed to be like Karen and Richard Carpenter? Did the producers tell Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn "write us a song that sounds like those Carpenter kids!" And who is Renee Armand? All these years I thought Carol was lip synching to Maureen, but it was Renee?

r18 Yes

R19 the arrangement is disco-ish. Yeah it might have been part of popular music back then but in essence it is what it is

[quote] Too much modulation. I understand it's disco and all, but it's too much.

it might be saccharin but some of us love the various colors and modulations.

R19 you dumb fuck! R17 was referring to the disco-lite song I posted in my Op. Different Worlds.

Maureen is quite the lez, ya know.

Lies!!!!

Leztastic

At least Maureen is feminine.

She is fucking great!

Trivia: After pivoting to Broadway as a replacement in Nine and Pirates of Penzance, she played the mother in the first workshop of Carrie and did beautiful work.

She has an unreleased hip-hop album in the Sony archives.

An audio recording of the first Carrie workshop:

A fun live performance of Different Worlds (despite the shitty vid quality):

music used to be fun and pretty

The Same Moon from State of the Heart album.

Loved it. Loved the show Angie. They really fucked it up with the changes in season 2. I dont know WHY they did that. Same with Mork and Mindy.

Live acapella version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow with Optimistic Voices opening.

i bet her snatch got a lot of action back in the day

I thought she sang Torn Between Two Lovers. I get those late 1970s MM singers mixed up...Maureen McGovern, Melissa Manchester, Mary McGregor, Melba Moore, etc.

R24 Don’t hold back. Let it out.

"I scissored with the best, then I scissored with the rest!"

A theme song more memorable than the show...along the lines of "Believe It or Not" from "The Greatest American Hero."

Strange how her 1970s music hasn't been reissued beyond two short compilations.

Someone’s feelings got hurt

R20 Yes, Renee Armand’s voice was used twice in Poseidon: when Lynley was practicing Morning After and when she was performing it for the passengers. Renee has had a long folk / soft rock / country career as a singer/songwriter. She co-wrote “One Day in Your Life” for pre “Off the Wall” solo Michael Jackson and was also one of The Coyote Sisters with Cass Elliot’s (!) sister (Leah Kunkel) in the ‘80s. She is one of the thousands of under-the-radar people in the music industry who have made a tidy sum from a lifetime of songwriting and record deals and lives very well in Nashville.

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I mix up Mandy and Melba Moore. Which one is the mother?

Here’s Maureen McGovern performing “Bottom Line” on the MDA telethon she did every year in 1980.

Where did we go wrong?

I loved the 'B' side of Maureen's little 45 record back in 1972. Listened to it a thousand times on my tiny record player. Eventually, I had to put a penny on the needle arm to keep it from jumping with the skips. Give it a listen.