![]() ![]() It may be that the guy on the bus wishes he was as attractive as Rudolph Valentino and senses that he is not actually attractive enough to speak to the his heartthrob, and the potential rejection would be more than he can bear. As much as he builds a scenario, it isn’t helping him make any actual progress in getting to know who this woman on the bus is, or even if she’s interested in him. Instead he creates a fantasy in his mind portraying himself as the Silent Film latin lover from Italy, Rudolph Valentino, and his love interest like the Swedish-born Greta Garbo. In the case of Ian Thomas’ guy on the bus, even though he can fairly accurately predict that the female he is attracted to will be riding on the same bus as him, he never gets up the nerve to introduce himself and strike up a conversation. Living in the present and paying attention to what is happening right in front of us is a catalyst for making our dreams come true. Today many self-help authors and speakers on tour invite their audience to live in the present moment. Greta Garbo with John Gilbert in the 1926 film, Flesh and the Devil Greta Garbo was known initially as a vamp playing leading roles in Flesh and the Devil (1926) and The Temptress (1926). She played opposite many leading stars including Nils Asther (known as “the Male Greta Garbo”), “latin lover” movie idols Ricardo Cortez, Antonio Moreno and Ramon Novarro (but not Rudolph Valentino), John Gilbert, Conrad Nagel, Clark Gable, Melvyn Douglas. Greta Garbo starred in 32 films between 19. By the end of the song he still hasn’t drummed up the courage to introduce himself to the girl on the bus.ĭuring his film career from 1914 to 1926, Rudolph Valentino played opposite numbers of leading starlets of the Silent Film era including Marguerite Namara, Katherine MacDonald, Alice Terry, Alice Lake, Agnes Ayres, Alla Nazimova, Dorothy Dalton, Gloria Swanson, Nita Naldi, Bebe Daniels, and Vilma Banky. However, the guy in the song is too aware that he is just a guy who works in a big gray store with revolving doors. He imagines that the girl on the Madison Avenue bus will than stare into his eyes the way Greta Garbo first did with her heartthrobs on screen in the 1920’s and 1930’s. But instead he spends time inside his mind pretending that he is a great lover like the Silent Film era heartthrob, Rudolph Valentino, that he is going to make an impressive entrance and win her heart. He is trying to get up the courage to introduce himself to her and let her know what his name is. Ian Thomas’ “Right Before Your Eyes” is a song about a guy who is fantasizing about getting up the courage to tell a girl he sees on a bus on his daily commute in Manhattan’s Madison Avenue. That year he also went on an extended tour across North America and Western Europe. Then in 1976 Thomas’ fourth album, Calabash, got him back on the radar in Vancouver with the hit singles “ Liars” and “Right Before Your Eyes”. Still, the album became a Gold record in Canada. Ian Thomas’ third album called Delights was released in 1975 to praise from the music critics, though the singles “Julie” and “The Good Life” were minor hits. The introspective tune questioning the notion of progress was out of synch with sentiment given the political crisis south of the border. Nixon had resigned from the presidency on August 9, 1974, due to the Watergate scandal. While “ Long Long Way” was on the charts in August and September 1974, America was going through a political crisis. However, unlike his previous Top 40 success in the USA, “Long Long Way” became the first of twenty-five single releases to fail to crack the Billboard Hot 100. The title track from the album climbed to #17 in Vancouver. In 1974 Ian Thomas released his second album, Long Long Way. He got exposure on a number of TV variety shows in Canada which included both his musical and comedic talents. Thomas won the 1974 Juno Award for Most Promising Male Vocalist and toured with April Wine. The song climbed to #9 in Vancouver and #34 on the Billboard Hot 100. By 1973 he got his own record deal with GRT Records and released “Painted Ladies”. ![]() This led to an album, but further success eluded them. They had a #3 hit in Hamilton in 1970 called “ If You’re Looking”. ![]() By 1969 he was in a folk group called Tranquility Base which began to tour across Canada. Once he began to play piano at the age of six Thomas fell in love with the world of music. In 1950, Ian Thomas was born in Hamilton, Ontario. ![]() Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ did not chart #1037: Right Before Your Eyes by Ian Thomas Band ![]()
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