Comments on: Cutouts Gone Wild!: Jimmy Harnen, “Can’t Fight the Midnight”

By: Al

Al — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:51:30 +0000

Hi Jeff,

Just stumbled onto your site after I remembered hearing this album years ago. Any chance the links for the songs to download could be restored? I'd rather not spend 50 bucks at Amazon.

Thanks,

Al

By: Al

Al — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:51:30 +0000

By: Cherie

Cherie — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:57:15 +0000

wow, I remember Synch well. Growing up in Williamsport, PA – I used to go to “The Factory” an under 21 dance club in Williamsport weekly and occasionally to the Wilkes Barre location. Synch appeared a few times and they were fabulous. I just thought about the good ole days and was putting a CD together to listen to and while doing a search, I thought about Synch and the Where Are You Now song. What a hit! Jimmy Harner – what a voice!

By: rwcass

rwcass — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:12:04 +0000

Jimmy Harnen, you are no Henry Lee Summer! But I do still like “Where Are You Now?”

By: Ted

Ted — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:01:35 +0000

We are long overdue for the “Popdose Guide to Jack Wagner”. The man is an 80's AOR / CHR under-rated legend.

By: DwDunphy

DwDunphy — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:09:41 +0000

Hell, for all these years I thought it was another Jack Wagner softee.

By: DwDunphy

DwDunphy — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:30:22 +0000

Can't Fight The Midnight, huh? That alone is the reason why the thing didn't sell. Imagine bringing this up to the counter where the cute girl is prepared to ring you up… “Can't Fight The Midnight, huh?” she toys. “Good luck on trying to march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade this year! Rainbow power!”

Yeesh.

By: CarlosRamirez

CarlosRamirez — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:15:08 +0000

I'm just waiting for a John Parr post at this point. Keep em' coming Jeff!

By: MDavies

MDavies — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:58:35 +0000

Also, Harnen was really from Nanticoke, as I remember. Nanticoke being famous as the site of Luzerne County Community College, and the Pennsylvania “city” which declined fastest in population in the 1990s (from something like 12,000 to 9,000). The most desolate main street I've ever seen.

By: thefxc

thefxc — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:56:12 +0000

Yeah, having also grown up kinda-near Wilkes-Barre in the late 80s I remember the Synch phenomena. (Every station from Philly to Scranton was looking for the Next Hooters; I thought it would be Bricklin or Tommy Conwell.) The local top 40 station (WKRZ) played the crap out of “Where Are You Now” before they were signed to a contract. Then Synch signed to Columbia and the station playing the “new” version, which was much slicker and AC–read “worse”–than the demo version. It was bizarre to see it become a bona fide hit a few years later…