Fotomaker   "Miles Away"


It sure sounded good on paper. Two former members of 60s hitmakers The Rascals, and a former member of the early 70s power pop band The Raspberries teaming up with two others and signing to Atlantic Records, who had released the bulk of The Rascals hits and had a large stable of successful rock bands on their roster. But it wasn't meant to be. Fotomaker released 3 albums in the late 70s that weren't successful. I don't think the album covers helped sales at all. Their debut features the face of an androgynous child on the cover, the second LPs' even weirder cover shows an elderly man wearing a court jester's cap. But Fotomaker did manage to get a couple of records on The Hot 100, that's two more than other similar hard luck acts Crack The Sky and Artful Dodger did.
"Miles Away" is probably Fotomaker's most well known song. It peaked at #63 on Billboard in late 1978. It's a really good song, that should've went top 20.

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