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The Hit
“It wasn’t that good the first time, it just caught the imagination and everyone liked the car. I liked the car. Maybe the car could make a comeback but I don’t think Paul and I could run around like we used to.”
- David Soul, on Starsky & Hutch
That’s what David “Hutch” Soul had to say about the show that made his name to the Sunday Postsometime in 2019. He remains friends with his co-stars, Paul Michael “Starsky” Glaser and Antonio “Huggy Bear” Fargas - as demonstrated in this lightly dodgy 2017 interview on some British morning show - but his ambivalence about the series shines through every time he talks about how he can’t escape the character. Some conjugation of the word “haunt” comes up at least twice...
For all his complaints, Soul accepts that his day-job saved him (and Glaser, for that matter) from "taking part-time jobs as waiters" and bought him some time and comfort to get in the studio with Tony Macaulay where he reconnected with his first love, music. The pair used the song “Don’t Give Up on Us” (released in 1977), and it topped charts around the world - including reaching No. 1 on the U.S. charts (related, and fun stuff, we're in the music video era by this time; see the link). That sincere 'n' sappy tune comes from the singer-songwriter genre - which, as I now know, is just another name for easy-listening rock - but it does deliver a surprise with the pitch and quality of Soul’s vocals. That is not the key you expect from an undercover cop, or even a guy who just plays one on TV.
The rest of it is pretty standard 70s fare - e.g., strings and violins add a little dimension and sepia-toned production, warm tones, etc. David Soul’s career, on the other hand, throws a couple curves.
The Rest of the Story
David Richard Solberg (and how damn good is “Soul” for a stage-name?) was born to a teacher and a Lutheran minister in Chicago, Illinois in 1943. Due to his father’s involvement with Lutheran World Relief, Soul’s family moved around a lot - including seven years spent rebuilding post-Nazi Germany. As such, it’s hardly surprising that Soul wound up at someplace like Mexico City’s University of the Americas when the time came to strike out on his own. Wikipedia says he never earned a degree (see the sidebar), but, as it did for so many, college changed his life courtesy of to the fellow students who introduced him to the guitar.
“It wasn’t that good the first time, it just caught the imagination and everyone liked the car. I liked the car. Maybe the car could make a comeback but I don’t think Paul and I could run around like we used to.”
- David Soul, on Starsky & Hutch
That’s what David “Hutch” Soul had to say about the show that made his name to the Sunday Postsometime in 2019. He remains friends with his co-stars, Paul Michael “Starsky” Glaser and Antonio “Huggy Bear” Fargas - as demonstrated in this lightly dodgy 2017 interview on some British morning show - but his ambivalence about the series shines through every time he talks about how he can’t escape the character. Some conjugation of the word “haunt” comes up at least twice...
For all his complaints, Soul accepts that his day-job saved him (and Glaser, for that matter) from "taking part-time jobs as waiters" and bought him some time and comfort to get in the studio with Tony Macaulay where he reconnected with his first love, music. The pair used the song “Don’t Give Up on Us” (released in 1977), and it topped charts around the world - including reaching No. 1 on the U.S. charts (related, and fun stuff, we're in the music video era by this time; see the link). That sincere 'n' sappy tune comes from the singer-songwriter genre - which, as I now know, is just another name for easy-listening rock - but it does deliver a surprise with the pitch and quality of Soul’s vocals. That is not the key you expect from an undercover cop, or even a guy who just plays one on TV.
The rest of it is pretty standard 70s fare - e.g., strings and violins add a little dimension and sepia-toned production, warm tones, etc. David Soul’s career, on the other hand, throws a couple curves.
The Rest of the Story
David Richard Solberg (and how damn good is “Soul” for a stage-name?) was born to a teacher and a Lutheran minister in Chicago, Illinois in 1943. Due to his father’s involvement with Lutheran World Relief, Soul’s family moved around a lot - including seven years spent rebuilding post-Nazi Germany. As such, it’s hardly surprising that Soul wound up at someplace like Mexico City’s University of the Americas when the time came to strike out on his own. Wikipedia says he never earned a degree (see the sidebar), but, as it did for so many, college changed his life courtesy of to the fellow students who introduced him to the guitar.
