Over the past week, I've been watching the first season of Glee. A few days ago, I happened to see the episode in which Rachel Berry (played by Lea Michele) sang a song with the late Mark Salling entitled "Run Joey Run". That song was a hit for David Geddes in 1975. Somehow, I never heard it when I was growing up. It's pretty awful, although it was apparently popular at the time it came out.
Original version.
As performed by the Glee folks...
"Run Joey Run" was a cheesy story song about a girl, who sounds about twelve or thirteen", begging her dad not to kill her lover, Joey. But the girl, name of Julie, is unsuccessful in convincing her dad not to get out his shot gun. As Julie pleads with her dad not to shoot, he opens fire and kills his daughter.
That song seems horribly dated and unbelievable-- at least for its time-- and also doesn't age well, because so many people have died due to gun violence. The 70s were kind of a magical time, though, weren't they? We had some real gems of shitty songs that somehow became hits. I miss those days for a lot of reasons. I was a little kid in the 70s, so it wasn't such a bad time for me, personally. The 80s and 90s were more traumatic for me, although those days were less traumatic for the world at large.
I'm not sure anyone will want to cover "Run Joey Run", even for a show like Glee. Actually, I think Glee is a bit cursed, so I'd be surprised if anyone tries to revive that show. Sad that they lost three cast members who played students... even Mark Salling, who was busted for having child porn and was about to be sent to prison when he hanged himself. I don't rejoice in his suicide, even as I don't condone his crimes. Very few people are all good or all bad. I think that's true for Salling, too.
Anyway, hopefully no one will copycat "Run Joey Run", in any way.
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