The Monday Forgotten 45 at 3:45 was suggested by Mike Davis, who is filling in for me this afternoon. It’s from 1982 and the Australian band Moving Pictures with “What About Me”.
Garry Frost of the band wrote the song when he was working with autistic children in his day job in Sydney. While he was out to the lunch, he noticed a small boy not being noticed waiting at the counter. He was sufficiently moved by the vision to write the song. It would never have been recorded but their debut album’s producer heard Frost and Smith tinkering with the tune on the studio piano during a break in recording, and the song was released as a single in January of ’82.
The song went to #1 in Australia, #29 in the US, but it stayed on the chart for 26 weeks and became one of the top 100 songs of 1982. Here’s Moving Pictures with “What About Me” today’s Forgotten 45.
