Songs For Screens: How ‘Welcome Back’ Became a 2020 Advertising Anthem – Check Out New Version by Aloe Blacc (Exclusive)
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variety.comJem Aswad Senior Music EditorLike many people, John Sebastian, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee for his years as a founding member and vocalist for The Lovin’ Spoonful, was getting ready to write off 2020 as a wash.After abruptly canceling a planned solo tour in March due to the pandemic, “I was looking down the barrel of no work — ever,” Sebastian says on the phone from his home in upstate New York.
But late in April, just a few weeks after all live venues went into indefinite lockdown, Sebastian got a call from his catalog admin team at Downtown Music Publishing with some promising news about his best-known solo hit, “Welcome Back,” a Hot 100 chart-topper in 1976 during its heyday as the theme song of the John Travolta-starring ‘70s.
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