You'd think if a song stays with you for days on end, you either have strong positive or negative feelings about it. It puzzles me, then, that "Cool Night" by Paul Davis keeps coming to mind, as I have no strong feelings either way about it. I remember it getting fairly heavy airplay during its chart run in late 1981 and early '82. I don't hear it often today, though.
Maybe I've thought about it so often because it's one of the first songs that makes me think of the yacht rock genre. Or, maybe it's just nice to remember a time when a song that takes its time to build could be a hit. In a world that often moves too fast, it's sometimes gratifying to hear a song that's in no great hurry.
