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WHEEL IN THE SKY

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 8, 2019…IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE IT WAS 41 YEARS AGO JOURNEY RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘WHEEL IN THE SKY’.

THIS WAS THE FIRST SINGLE THE GROUP RELEASED FROM THE ALBUM ‘INFINITY’. THE SONG WAS WRITTEN BY ROBERT FLEISHMAN, NEAL SCHON, AND DIANNE VALORY.

DIANNE VALORY WAS BASSIST ROSS VALORY’S WIFE. SHE WROTE A POEM CALLED “WHEELS IN MY MIND”. ROBERT FLEISCHMAN THE GROUP’S LEAD SINGER AT THE TIME, WROTE NEW LYRICS, AND NEAL SCHON WROTE THE MELODY ON AN ACOUSTIC GUITAR IN THE BACK SEAT OF A STATION WAGON WHILE THE BAND WAS DRIVING BETWEEN SHOWS.

THE THING THAT I LIKE IS THE STEVE PERRY ENDED UP REPLACING FLEISHMAN A COUPLE OF WEEKS LATER WHEN IT CAME TIME TO WORK ON THE SONG IN THE STUDIO, AND THIS ENDED UP BEING THE FIRST SINGLE ISSUED WITH PERRY AS THE LEAD VOCALIST OF THE BAND, AND WAS ALSO THE FIRST SINGLE TO CHART FOR THE GROUP.

HERE’S JOURNEY CIRCA 1978 WITH ‘WHEEL IN THE SKY’