Jon and Vangelis: “I’ll Find My Way Home” (1981)
When you’re alone and life is making you lonely, you can always listen to this.
Kronomyth 2.3: The friends of mr. casio
It’s lovely that people have fond associations with this song but, c’mon, it’s the melody from “Downtown” for crying out loud. This is not the music they will play in Heaven. (Maybe on the elevator going up to Heaven…) That said, I wish Jon Anderson had done an orchestrated version of I’ll Find My Way Home for Change We Must. If you love this song, you really owe it to yourself to hear “Hurry Home,” preferably from the aforementioned album. Now that song gives me chills. The flip side to this single is Back to School from their first album, Short Stories. Jon and Vangelis didn’t even bother to rip off a good song for “Back to School,” instead using a generic rock and roll riff that I’m pretty sure came pre-programmed on most cheap Casio keyboards. (An addendum from Mebyl Spaetzman: Three days on and I cannot get this song out of my head, so maybe Jon and Vangelis were onto something…)
Original 7-inch single version
A1. I’ll Find My Way Home (Jon Anderson/Vangelis)
B1. Back to School (Jon Anderson/Vangelis)
Original 7-inch single version (US)
A1. I’ll Find My Way Home (Jon Anderson/Vangelis) (4:29)
B1. I Hear You Now (Vangelis/Anderson) (5:11)
The Plastic
Released on November 27, 1981 in the UK (Polydor, JV 1), France, Germany and Italy (Polydor, 2002 109) and the Netherlands (Polydor, 2229 248) and in March 1982 in the US (Polydor, PD 2205) with picture sleeve. Also released on 12-inch single in 1981 in Germany (Polydor, 2141 199). Reached #6 on the UK charts and #51 on the US charts (charted on May 22, 1982 for 9 weeks). Also released as promotional 12-inch single in the US (Polydor, PRO-181) feat. A only.
