I-95 Drive Home Featured Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight’s featured artist wrote tonight’s featured song but let the band 38. Special make it into a hit l. Any idea whom that could be?

Tonight’s artist is a man by the name Jim Peterik. Although he is a member of the band Survivor he has written some really big hits for other bands like tonight’s performed by 38. Special ‘Hold On Loosley” .38 Special's first hit. Jim Peterik wrote the song with Frankie Sullivan for their band Survivor. When Survivor's producer decided that song wasn't right for their first album, .38 Special recorded it and the rest is history.

About writing the song Peterik said, “It was my first foray into co-writing….writing sessions are always like blind dates: It's like making love without the foreplay. Suddenly you're sitting there face to face, and you're thinking, 'OK, what do we do now? Am I going to embarrass myself? What if my ideas suck?' So we're sitting there nervously, just making small talk, and all of the sudden Jeff says, 'I've got this lick,' and he starts with the opening lick of what became Hold On Loosely. I go, 'That's really neat,' and Don says, 'I've got this title - Hold On Loosely,' and I go, 'Yeah, but don't let go.' My wife of 32 years now, this is what broke us apart when we were teenagers - I was getting too close. I was getting too serious for her. She didn't say, 'Hold On Loosely,' but that's what was in her heart. I immediately saw a story, and it was really my own story. I said, 'Jeff, play that riff.' He plays the riff, and I start singing: 'You see it all around you, good loving gone bad.' It just started coming. I turned on the tape recorder and said, 'Guys, I think we have something here.'

Jim Peterik has written many of the songs played regularly on I-95 and some others I’m sure you have heard of, see if you recognize some these: