1. “Here I Come” (AKA “Broader than Broadway”) (1984)
It’s hard to believe Barrington was a lad of just 20 when he recorded this sage tune, about the tug between parental responsibility and selfish desire. As he told David Katz of Wax Poetics in 2007, the song’s very specific, descriptive lyrics were based on reality. “It’s something that happen to one of my friends where the girl have a kid,” he said. “She was young and pregnant and, after she had the kid, she was saying she don’t want to stay inside and look after no kid, because she have to have fun, because she’s young.” We figured we’d include the proper video for this song (filmed around the 1990 release of Profile Records’ compilation Broader than Broadway) but for the full effect of this song’s genius, check this brilliant performance footage on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1984 and a 1985 British telethon.
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