What are you streaming tonight?

@tomic601, after The Knack hit it big in 1979 with "My Sharona", everybody and his brother was moving to L.A. to get a record deal. There were so many bands in town, it was like after the British Invasion, when there was a group on every block in San Jose and Cupertino, practicing Kinks, Rolling Stones, and Animals songs in suburban garages and living rooms. Nobody could sing well enough to pull off Beatles songs ;-) .

With all those groups flooding into L.A., and an audience eager to see and hear them, all kinds of non-music venues were putting on live music shows. One such place was a little boutique woman's clothing store in Westwood Village, where on a sunny afternoon in late '79 or early '80 I saw a singer and band named Toni & The Movers perform a set on the floor of the store. The band members were all dressed in matching white mover's overalls, and singer Toni was, you may have already guessed, a young Tori Amos. I don't remember what she and they sounded like.

As if often the case with a combo containing a good looking and/or talented (in that order ;-) female singer, she got the record deal as a solo artist.