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R. Dean Taylor 7″--”Indiana Wants Me” and “Love’s Your Name”

R. Dean Taylor wrote, and recorded “Indiana Wants Me” in 1970 and produced this single. The song is from the perspective of a fugitive of the law, writing a letter to his family. At first I thought the song was this hilarious joke, some fun song that came out before my time, but it is actually a pretty good jam. After a few listens, I can still smile and sing and laugh at this one. On this (a goldmine of info) website about R. Dean Taylor, I learned that the police sirens in part of the song were a controversy, and had to be removed on some copies due to confused drivers pulling over while listen to those parts.  The copy I got does have the Sirens, but it did confuse me at first, and I wasn’t listening to this in my car.The song still made #1 in several charts and is considered R Dean Taylor’s biggest hit.

Side B had “Love’s Your Name” which was another nice soft rock jam, and another great time period piece, although much harder to find information on than I had hoped.Either way, check it out here. I like the girl he describes in the song, this free spirit that you expect to hear about in that era. 

When: 1970

Where: I got this at Hope’s Attic for 25 Cents

Condition: Decent; it stops a bit abruptly on side A during the very end of the song, preventing the listener from hearing the gunshots that end the song. Side B plays excellently.

This did not have an envelope.