On the back album cover, she's on a horse which would have made the title of this post make more sense.
Continuing Journey Week, I thought I would continue to chart their career through the backwoods of their legacy before going for the obvious stuff. One of the fun curios of Journey's peak period was the album Tane' Cain, an album featuring Jonathan Cain's then-wife released in 1982. The record stands out in my memory because my older cousin had it back then (he was a huge Pat Benatar fan) and he liked the record cover.
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In an interview with Journey manager Herbie Herbert, Herbert claimed that shortly after Cain joined Journey that Cain refused to follow through on his commitment to the band unless Herbert helped get his wife signed. Tane' Cain had been a professional singer since the 70's and is the daughter of actor Doug McClure. Producer Keith Olsen said the music industry was hot for anything Journey following the Escape album, either way Tane' Cain was signed to RCA records.
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Jon Cain wrote much of the music for his wife's album and Neal Schon contributed some guitar. Tane' Cain's voice had a very Pat Benatar sound to it (dramatic and kind of Operatic), though she resisted that comparison. The music is state of the art (for 1982) pop rock, a solid mix of catchy pop tunes with mild guitars and busy bass lines. She was able to score one Top 40 hit, the single "Holdin' On" reached #37 on the charts. The other singles "My Time To Fly", "Danger Zone" and "Temptation" failed to make an impact. Jonathan Cain puts everything he has into this album, writng, co-producing, even singing on the duet "Almost Any Night". Despite the Cain's best efforts, the album was only a fair success and Tane' Cain's recording career was over.
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Jon Cain wrote "Faithfully" to Tane', the song would become one of Journey's biggest hits. Tane' would continue to try her hand at music and acting, forming the band Trianglz and appearing in the film Terminator (it's Tane' and the band playing in the night club when Ah-nold faces Linda Hamilton for the first time). The Cains divorced in 1984 and Tane' would revert to her maiden name McClure. Eventually, she would become a prolific B movie actress and occasionally appear in Hollywood films like Legally Blonde.
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Rock stardom can bring a lot of things in the music business: video games named after the band, bumper stickers, movie roles...but nothing says success like a vanity recording. And while it may seem unfair to lump Tane' Cain/McClure in that category because she actually can sing a little, that's essentially what this is. What seals the deal is the preening self infatuated performance given by Tane' in the music video, it's wrecks any credibility she may have had going in.
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It took some time, but I was able to dig up the actual video. Here it is, Tane' Cain in "Temptation"-the new Flashback!
Temptation - Tane Cain
3 comments:
But does she still wear the headband? :D
The middle section was cool and was a much needed pick me up because the lyrics are rather dull. The guitars do remind me of Journey, and the keyboards give the song that great 80's feel. Instead of hopping on, if Tané had jumped over the guy's back instead (à la David Lee Roth), then she would have had a golden 80's career.
P.S. Hey, don't you have this record somewhere?
Oh_My_God. Where did you dig that thing up from??? Never heard it that I recall, but dang! That was pure 80's over-acting to the extreme. The beginning of the song kinda reminded me of Kim Karnes/Carnes(sp?) but then I started to really look at the girl and I swear, she looks like she would be more at home on Hee Haw. I swear it. She looks like one of those 80's Hee Haw Honeys. Sorry. Thanks for the belly laugh, Mr. Mike. As usual, your post rocks!
Hi Honey! I think I still do have the record somewhere and we still have the burned copy of it to CD. I played it while typing out this post, fortunately no headbands were harmed in the making.
Hi Some Kinda Wonderful! The Kim Carnes comparison is dead on and she does have that Hee Haw look. It's funny, she said her main influence was Grace Slick and yet she reminds people of anyone but Slick.
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