(Can't Live Without Your) Love And Affection - Remastered 2017

Nelson is the duo of Matthew and Gunnar Nelson, identical twin sons of Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Ricky Nelson. This song, from their debut album After The Rain, is about a guy who is trapped in the "friend zone" with a girl, and he's desperate to turn their relationship romantic. It seems like a stretch that the photogenic, guitar-playing Nelson twins would have any trouble getting a girl to notice them, but in our interview with Gunnar, he said this was indeed the case. "When I was in high school, I certainly was not one of the popular kids," he said. "It seemed like all the hot chicks used to come to me to get advice about their dirtbag boyfriends, and I made them feel better about themselves, and they'd go right back to the dirtbag boyfriend. So that's where that lyric came from: a true-life experience of feeling that way."

Matthew Nelson used to say that he developed the guitar riff for this song while looking at a photo of supermodel Cindy Crawford in Vogue magazine. This likely apocryphal tale ties in with the video, where at the beginning of the clip there is some dialog between the twins. Gunnar is seen reading "Vague" magazine when his brother asks him to start working on the song. "Did you see this?," Gunnar says, pointing to the cover model. "Fine," Matthew replies, "then this one's for her."

The Nelson family are listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the only family with three generations of #1 hitmakers. The twins are grandsons of 1930s Big Band leader Ozzie Nelson who had a #1 hit with "And Then Some." Ozzie went on to marry his vocalist Harriet and they later became TV stars with their show The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. The show starred the entire family including their son Ricky Nelson who had two chart-toppers with "Poor Little Fool" and "Travelin' Man." Thirty years later Matthew and Gunnar Nelson had their own #1 with this song.