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PETER MCCANN

“DO YOU WANNA MAKE LOVE”

(PETER MCCANN)

20th Century Fox 2335

No. 5   August 6, 1977

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Peter McCann, a Connecticut native, sang in barber­ shop quartets and liked Cole Porter plus other tune­

smiths from the ’30s and ’40s.  In 1971, while attending Fairview University on a glee dub scholarship,

Pete hooked up with the critically underrated, folk-rockin’ Repairs.  The group was produced by Andrew

Loog Oldham–noted for his managing/production work with the Rolling Stones–and recorded two highly

sought-after LPs for the Motown subsidiaries Rare Earth and Mowest.  Despite the high quality of their

sound and material, neither album sold well enough to justify the group’s continued existence.

In 1973, after the Repairs had proved unsalvageable, McCann joined the staff of ABC Music Publishers.

Nothing much happened until Pete suggestively applied his voice to his self-penned (and banned in Bis­

marck, ND) “Do You Wanna Make Love.”  Meanwhile, Jennifer Warnes, a former actress and lead player

in the Los Angeles production of Hair, had a Top 10 hit with a McCann composition, “Right Time of the

Night” (#7,1977).  For a brief period, each of McCann’s songs shared positions on the Billboard pop

listings.

Warnes’ “Right Time”proved to be the start of a siz­able string of hits, the most prominent of which was to

be “Up Where We Belong” (#1, 1982), her duet with Joe Cocker.  McCann has yet to rechart.