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Flash Cadillac: Sons of the Beaches

Gene Sculatti, Creem, January 1976

What lame-o group is finally going to win the distinction of recording The Last ‘Fifties’ Song of the Seventies? Just when I thought the sub-genre had run out of grease, here comes Chicago with that one about blue jeans, comic books and movies, and now Loggins & Messina have undertaken their Oldies Songbook. When's it going to end?

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