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"You Make Me Crazy" - Sammy Hagar (Live on Midnight Special 1/13/78)

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"The background singer girls were called "The Blackberries" and were for hire and not part of the band. This was me trying to write like Van Morrison... 1978 -- I was 30 years old, can you believe that?!" - Sammy Today we're celebrating 44 years since the release of "Musical Chairs"! The album included the rockers "Turn Up The Music", "Straight From The Hip Kid", "Reckless", but for today's #Flashback performance we go to Sammy's first TV appearance and performance of the pop track "You Make Me Crazy" from Burt Sugarman's The Midnight Special. Only a month earlier Saturday Night Fever came out in the theaters. Check out the neon lights, short hair... and the boots! Vocals: Sammy Hagar Bass: Bill "Electric" Church Guitar: Gary Pihl Drums: Denny Carmassi Keyboards: Alan "Fitz" Fitzgerald Subscribe to Sammy's channel: http://bit.ly/SammyHagarYT Facebook: https://facebook.com/sammyhagar Instagram: https://instagram.com/sammyhagar Twitter: https://twitter.com/sammyhagar Musical Chairs: http://www.redrocker.com/discography/musical-chairs #SammyHagar #MusicalChairs #YouMakeMeCrazy #MidnightSpecial

About Sammy Hagar

Samuel Roy Hagar (born October 13, 1947), also known as the Red Rocker, is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He rose to prominence in the early 1970s with the hard rock band Montrose before launching a successful solo career, scoring a hit in 1984 with "I Can't Drive 55". He enjoyed further commercial success as the second lead vocalist of Van Halen from 1985 through 1996, and from 2003 to 2005. In 2007 Hagar was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of ...

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