Staying With It

Album: Clouds Across The Sun (1980)
Charted: 37
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Songfacts®:

  • "Staying With It" is a duet between Firefall lead singer Rick Roberts and a guest vocalist, Lisa Nemzo. In the song, their relationship is at a crossroads, but they agree to stay with it and work things out.
  • To this point, Firefall's hits (including "You Are the Woman" and "Cinderella") were written by either Larry Burnett or Rick Roberts, the primary songwriters in the band. This one was written by outside writers: John Parker and Tom Snow. Parker's credits include "Hard Habit To Break" for Chicago and "If You Wanna Get Back Your Lady" by the Pointer Sisters; Snow's co-writes include "Let's Hear It For The Boy" by Deniece Williams and "Don't Know Much" by Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville.
  • This was the last Top 40 hit for Firefall, which after six years in business was collapsing. Rick Roberts and Larry Burnett left the following year, and the group floundered. They never officially broke up, but were inactive for much of the '80s and '90s. Guitarist Jock Bartley kept the band going with various lineups, and they released an occasional album, including Messenger in 1994 and Comet in 2020.

Comments: 2

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn February 7, 1981, Firefall, with Lisa Nemzo, performed "Staying With It" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'...
    At the time the song was at #60 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, three weeks later it would peak at #37 {for 2 weeks} and it spent nine weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #46 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart...
    Between 1976 and 1981 the Boulder, CO quintet had ten records on the Top 100 chart, one* made the Top 10, "You Are The Woman", it peaked at #9 {for 2 weeks} on December 5th, 1976 and stayed on the Top 100 for twenty-two weeks...
    * They just missed having a second Top 10 record when "Just Remember I Love You" peaked at #11 {for 1 week} on November 13th, 1977.
  • Aimee from Plant City, FlThis isn't "Staying With It... it's "Strange Way"!... bad link!
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