Jazz Articles about Pamela Polland

Pamela Polland: Pamela Polland / Have You Heard The One About The Gas Station Attendant?

by Jakob Baekgaard
May 24, 2019

The singer-songwriter movement of the seventies paved the way for several new voices in popular music, but not everyone got the success of Carole King, whose album Tapestry (Ode, 1971) marked a peak in the movement, commercially and artistically. Pamela Polland was one of the artists whom fame eluded. Polland was poised for a big breakthrough with a record contract for CBS and the staunch support of label president, Clive Davis. However, things didn't turn out as planned. ...