American Flyer deserved better.
Eric Kaz had written great love songs for
Linda Ronstadt and
Bonnie Raitt, and
Craig Fuller was coming off his Top 40 hit "Amie" with
Pure Prairie League. As it happened,
Steve Katz's "Back In '57" turned out to be one of the album's highlights, but "Let Me Down Easy," by
Kaz And Fuller, was a minor hit, and there was also
Kaz's classic co-composition, "Love Has No Pride." But those were just the cream of an excellent set produced by
George Martin. Add it all up, and it should have meant more than a chart peak in the lower reaches of the Top 100, an early indication that, for whatever reasons,
American Flyer was not destined to become the next
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.