TEXAS LIGHTS
After Homer’s 45 “I Never Cared for You” started getting extensive radio play and peaked at #2 on the KONO radio playlist, Columbia Records came calling and expressed interest in a national release. The A&R man’s request to know what was going to be on their next single caught Homer flat-footed. After quickly cutting two more songs, “On the Wall” and “Texas Lights”, Columbia blew them off and passed on the whole deal. They were released locally as the next two singles by the band but did not perform as well as “I Never Cared for You”.
(September 2011)
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Homer secured a record deal with Columbia Records – but then their A&R man asked about the other songs they had recorded. Well, there weren’t any, so the band hurried back to Tyler and recorded “On the Wall” b/w “Texas Lights”; both songs were written by Galen Niles. By the time they got the songs in the mail, “I Never Cared for You” was beginning to slip in the local charts, so the Columbia deal went away. An independent release of “On the Wall” failed to chart.
(April 2014)
