Persistent earworm alert XIII

Ever since writing about Allen Toussaint's song, "Goin' Down," in yesterday's post, I've had a song by the same title running through my mind.  If you listened to soft rock radio regularly in the Spring of '82, you probably heard Greg Guidry's "Goin' Down," which is much more downcast, lyrically and instrumentally, than Toussaint's song.  Tonally, it falls somewhere between Foreigner's "Waiting For A Girl Like You" and Ambrosia's "You're The Only Woman."  Its intro also brings to mind a minor Alan Parsons Project hit, "I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You."  The tune, especially its chorus, "And I'm goooooooin' dowwwwwwn, for the last time," fit in perfectly on the radio at that time; I remember it being played a lot on adult contemporary stations here, especially KSLQ.  I don't think I've heard it on the radio since it was a hit, but for a brief time in the early '80s, it was the go-to hit for identifying with an overwhelmed protagonist.