Bring your old Looking Glass records Saturday to the 47th annual Wyandotte Street Art Fair. The 1970s band with the hit song "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" is ready to sign autographs after headlining the annual festival.
"It's funny because people come out of the woodwork and they have their old vinyls and we sign them," said the group's musical director and keyboard player Jeff Lehman of Warren. "It brings back memories for them."
Perhaps the most common memories: those associated with the song "Brandy," Lehman said.
"A lot of girls named Brandy were named after that song," Lehman said. "That's the one I hear most often."
The show, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, will be the group's first performance in Michigan since 1972, despite the fact that three of four current band members hail from around the state. The group re-formed in 2003 with original singer and guitarist Elliot Lurie, who wrote "Brandy"; Lehman; bassist Eric Mackey of Eastpointe, and drummer Craig Williams of Grand Blanc.
Four Rutgers college friends originally formed the group in 1969: Lurie, Jeff Grob, Larry Gonsky and Pieter Sweval. Sweval, who died in 1990, and Grob went on to form the heavy metal band Starz. Gonsky became a junior high music teacher and Lurie, a movie soundtrack supervisor.
By Free Press staff
The Wyandotte Street Art Fair, with entertainment and 250 artists booths along Biddle Avenue in downtown Wyandotte, starts Wednesday and ends Saturday. For information, visit www.wyandottestreetartfair.org/.