LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 8, 2020…43 YEARS AGO FOREIGNER RELEASED THEIR SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM. THE FIRST OF 4 HIT SINGLES FROM THE RECORD WAS ‘FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME’. IT WAS THE FIRST SONG MICK JONES WROTE, AND IT WAS A SONG THAT HE WROTE SPECIFICALLY WITH LOU GRAMM IN MIND TO SING THE SONG. JONES HEARD A TAPE OF GRAMM AND SAID “THAT’S THE VOICE WE NEED IN THE BAND.” IT’S ALSO THE SONG THAT EARNED THE BAND A RECORD CONTRACT. ‘FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME’ WENT TO NUMBER 4 ON THE US CHARTS. ‘STARRIDER’ ‘LONG LONG WAY FROM HOME’ AND ‘COLD AS ICE’ WERE THE OTHER SINGLES TAKEN FROM THE RECORD. ‘COLD AS ICE’ WAS TOP TEN AS WELL FOR THE GROUP AND BECAME ONE OF FOREIGNERS BEST KNOWN SONGS IN THE US. FOREIGNER’S DEBUT ALBUM HAS SOLD OVER 5 MILLION COPIES IN AMERICA. HERE’S FOREIGNER PERFORMING ‘FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME’ IN 1978