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Up next one of the coolest stories of a one hit wonder ever…This artist dropped out of high school to follow his rock and roll dreams, he scratched and clawed for 10 years before a chance meeting in an elevator gave him a shot at a record deal. Grayson Hugh arranged and helped finish a song that he knew would be a hit, but then couldn’t release it because an Icon got first dibs on releasing her version. Finally after so many failed promises, His song, the 1988 hit Talk It Over shot up the charts… The unbelievable story of rock and roll perseverance straight from the artist is next on professor of rock .

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it’s time for another edition of our series Bottled Lightning where we celebrate a song that was king for a day or for many days. We honor artists and bands and that one glorious hit they had that rocketed up the charts…and for reasons unknown didn’t have another hit. We all know them for the term one hit wonder but we try to step beyond that and celebrate them as Lightening in a bottle. Today we focus on a song that came out of nowhere to take a smooth voiced rock and soul singer to the upper reached of the chart. You’ll probably recognize it from the year 1988, and if you don’t know it, you should, he kills it on this soul galvanizing ditty. I’m talking about Talk It Over by Hugh Grayson.

Grayson dropped out of high school to pursue his rock and roll dreams but it would take 10 years of paying dues to get his shot, and then just when he thought he had his first hit ready to go a legend decided she wanted to record the song and put her version out first. I had a chance to talk a length with Hugh about this song and it’s a fascinating story of perseverance and sheer will.

He even performs the songs and walks us through how he arranged it. As we go into this interview, I want to thank our sponsor Zenni Eyewear the glasses I wear everyday on this channel and that you should wear too! If you go to Zenni.com you can design your own look and add amazing features like blue blokz that protect your eyes form digital blue light that we run into every day with our screens. See for yourself , you’ll dig it. Here is Hugh Grayson with the story of the 1988 hit Talk It Over.