After Dream Street Rose bombed, Gordon put his full energy into what I consider to be his greatest album: Shadows.
Several videos were filmed (the start of the MTV era), Baby Step Back moved up to about #50 on the Billboard Hot 100 and made top 20 on the easy listening chart. But the album failed to become a hit.
I saw Gordon in concert soon after Shadows. Usually he is rather quiet on stage. That night he went on and on about the album and on the record industry not supporting it. I made it back stage where Gordon was kind enough to autograph Summertime Dream for me. I told him Shadows was a fantastic album. He said the record company's support was so poor that not one copy was sent to Houston, Texas even though he has thousands of fans there.
So does anyone out there have the inside scoop on this? Why did the record company push a single & even vidoes while at the same time not even bother to ship records?
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