Instead, his career took a different path. He released a few folk-pop singles in the mid-’60s, but they went nowhere. Soul learned guitar while studying at the University Of The Americas in Mexico City, and he tried to get a music career going after he dropped out. His father was a Lutheran minister who worked for a refugee-outreach program, and the family moved around a lot. David Soul was just famous enough.ĭavid Soul was born David Richard Solberg in Chicago. Starsky & Hutch was in its second season when David Soul, the chiseled and squinty actor who played Detective Kenneth “Hutch” Hutchinson, released “Don’t Give Up On Us.” That year, Starsky & Hutch was airing against The Mary Tyler Moore Show and regularly getting wrecked in the ratings. You could record a forgettable ballad, and that forgettable ballad, combined with your own familiar face, could propel a record to #1. If you were, let’s say, an actor who’d never managed to get your music career off the ground but who was on TV every week, that exposure could change everything. So pretty much everyone in America at least had some vague idea who those two Bay City, California detectives were. Starsky & Hutch wasn’t a landmark TV show. It did decent ratings, stayed on the air for four seasons, and stuck around in syndication for a while. The ABC buddy-cop show Starsky & Hutch wasn’t even an especially big hit in its time. If you’re looking for some kind of routine and vaguely comforting diversion, the shows on those three networks are all you really have.
FILL ME UP BUTTERCUP BABY TYLER MOVIE
The washed-up movie stars, the psychotically violent hippies, the ailing cowboys - they all go home at night and tune in to the same cheesy procedurals. The newish Quentin Tarantino movie Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood is full of fascinating little period details, and one of my favorites is the idea that everyone in 1969 watched the same TV shows. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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