4/5/26: “Only One Girl for Me,” by Gordon Wright
Gordon Wright is a Chicago-area musician who will be sharing music on the 5th day of the month all year long. Long ago, he fronted an East Coast pop/rock band called Fooled By April. These days you can find him singing jazz in the Chicago Jazz Dads.
“Only One Girl for Me.” Why, you ask, would I write such an earnest and unapologetic love song in this dystopic age?
Well, first of all, I actually wrote this tune 21 years ago. And as the lyric promises, I sang it on my wedding day, on April 2, 2005. Probably a decade later I sat down with my pal Aric Jacover and we recorded this version, and now a decade more and I’m finally releasing it to the world on this podcast.
And why play it now? Well, I just celebrated 21 years of marriage with the lovely, talented and amazing human I met more than 30 years ago as a teenager. She stuck by me through some crazy times trying to create and share music with the world, so it seemed important and fitting that I should try and create some of that music for her.
So here it is again, a song that has finally reached legal drinking age: “Only One Girl for Me.”