Aim

Artist: Aim

LP: Aim For the Highest

Song: "Seattle"

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Not to be confused with the toothpaste of the same name, the music group Aim released an LP back in 1974 featuring a song about Seattle. The lyrics mention taking a ferry to "Winslow Island," which I'd never heard of before, so I looked it up. Evidently singer Michael W. Overly was actually taking the ferry over to Bainbridge Island from downtown Seattle. The ferry stops at a little town there that was called Winslow until 1991, when it was incorporated into the rest of the island to become the island-town known today as Bainbridge Island (see map here). You can find a review of the "Aim For the Highest" LP on the GloryDaze Music website here, where a guy named Eric complains about Overly's "high-pitched tenor," his "painful yelping" and his tendency to "boogie things up" too often. But be sure to check out the counter-review submitted by Shelf Stacker, who claims that Aim's sole LP is full of "sunny West-Coast positivity," that Overly sounds kinda' like Stevie Wonder and that he would make sure to rescue the album if his house ever caught on fire. Personally, I like the record. My copy has a hole-punch too, but I Photoshopped it out.