Pete McCann

Vocalist/songwriter Peter McCann asked the query in his music, “WOULD YOU Wanna HAVE SEX?” Apparently the solution was yes — the record-buying general public loved the music so much which they offered him a million-selling Best Five pop strike in 1977. McCann also had written Jennifer Warnes’ pop strike “Right Period of the night time.” We were young in Bridgeport, CT, McCann was constantly in some sort of performing group. He earned a glee golf club college scholarship through the Jesuit priests to a little Catholic university in Fairfield, CT. The training proved very helpful to him, because the glee golf club do 30 concerts annually. After university graduation, he was inside a rock band known as Repairs. A yr later, the music group was authorized to Motown, where they documented two albums with maker Andrew Loog Oldham (the Rolling Rocks). In Sept 1974, a lot of the music group members shifted to LA, playing in night clubs six nights weekly. After two grueling weeks, McCann stop the music group, then got wedded and began songwriting regular. Making a scheduled appointment with Rick Weiser of ABC Music, McCann was released to Hal Yoergler. After many conferences and songwriting ideas from Yoergler, McCann approved a staff composing placement with ABC Music. The theory for “WOULD YOU Wanna HAVE SEX?” originated from a discussion McCann had within a club with a pal in regards to the promiscuous atmosphere that appeared to be in play. Regardless of the title as well as the locale where in fact the preliminary idea sprang up, the melody isn’t about one-night stands. A pay attention or a glance at the chorus: “Would you wanna have sex or simply fool around/You may take it significantly/Or consider it someplace else.” Probably 500,000 record-buyers bought the record for the promiscuous connotation from the title as well as perhaps another 500,000 got it for McCann’s primary romantic-based intent. In any case, placing the song jointly was a whirlwind event. McCann do the essential sketch from the song within an evening. Taking the melody to his publisher, ABC/Dunhill Music created the one, which charted simply fourteen days after it had been released. A self-titled record was rush-released by 20th Hundred years Information to capitalize over the fast-selling one. The LP included his edition of “Best Time of the night time,” which predated “WOULD YOU Wanna HAVE SEX” and Warnes’ edition. When Warnes’ cover began to remove and since they were shedding the “cover fight” (generally r / c don’t play two performers within the same tune), 20th Hundred years started to draw back their advertising and promotional initiatives on McCann’s edition. McCann was perturbed how the label sat on his edition, but without doubt the income gained from his songwriter’s royalties (from Warnes’ TOP hit edition) were relaxing to some extent. McCann implemented his success using a Feb 1979 record on CBS Information titled Private; it was made by his songwriting coach/supervisor Yoergler. McCann still writes tracks and shows up at Writer’s Evening seminars.