Unfairly Forgotten Song #2: Get Used to It by Roger Voudouris

Right around the same time as Randy Bachman and Ironhorse were hitting the charts with "Sweet Lui-Louise", Roger Voudouris saw his biggest hit, "Get Used to It", climb the charts as well. His song entered the top 40 the week after "Sweet Lui-Louise" (that being the week of April 28, 1979) at #40, eventually peaking at #21 the week of June 16 and holding there for two weeks.  Two weeks after that, it had disappeared from the top 40, and you've probably never heard it on the radio since then, unless you happened to come across an episode of "American Top 40: The 70s".  Overall, it spent a very respectable 19 weeks on the Hot 100.

This was Roger Voudouris's only top 40 hit; the prevailing sound of pop music was starting to change around then, and while the yacht rock into which category I, at least, would place "Get Used To It" stuck around for a little while longer, pop music as a whole was starting to transition away from music like this.  And while I like where pop music went after the 70s, I also would have liked to see more of this type of music too.

(Radio Dream, from which "Get Used To It" came, never made the album chart.)

Unfortunately, if you find this song on a compilation album, there's a good chance it's a re-recording, as was the case on the YouTube video I found when I originally wrote this post in 2008 or so.  Thankfully, the original and much better-sounding version can be found more easily now, either on YouTube or through this link.