Pablo Cruise - A Place In The Sun Lyrics

I dig this song it reminds me to go to the beach on sunny day on hot summer day.

My room-mates and I were hanging out in the dorm room, smokin' some grass, and listening to WBCN in Boston. This song came on. It transported us to a beautiful place. We had never heard it before, but it was smack-damn perfect. We just grooved, sat back, and appreciated. What memories. (And if I'm not mistaken, WBCN was the first radio station to play it. God love 'ya, 'BCN.)

Shades of Santana. Love it anyway(s.) AMJ

Memories!

I had three of their albums and always enjoyed their music!

July 3rd, 1977  Bill, Kelly and I started our drive in Bill's Ford Taurus from Augsburg Germany to Pamplona Spain to run the bulls. Then on to Sitges where we found two places.  Our Place in the Sun and Margaretville. We were the luckiest guys in the world!

Saw them recently. They still have it

Thank you P C I found my place in the sun August 25th 2019

I too have found my place in the sun and know I am marrying my high school sweetheart who is Helen Hunts 1st couison! awesome song for ever!

RIP Mr. Bruce Day...Dear Friend ...We miss you mang....Rock onnn
RJ

Turely a righteous band...y or no?🕊🇺🇸➖🙏🌞☀
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Little feat is a kindred spirit

Remember back in the early 80s all the club bands playing Pablo Cruz and AWB.Those were the days.💢

💢Find your place in the Son ✝..&🌞➖😎🌴➖❌™

Soft rock, blue-eyed soul, funk rock, R&B, Christian rock, pop rock

I remember taking in Pablo Cruise while a life guard in the late 70s. Strange how a song can take you back to a certain place and time!

Wonderful Times, thanks!

i hate finding these these great vids late at night because i have to stay up listening
to them. oh well ,i guess i'll go to bed later and just be tired in the morning.

A Place In The Sun
Pablo Cruise

Well everybody's heart needs a holiday, some time
And everyone of us needs to get away, some how
'Cause laughing light-hearted moods
Oh, sight seeing afternoons
And telling a joke or two
'Cause everyday invites you to find your place in the sun

It's time to find your place in the sun
Find your place
Find your place in the sun
Its time to find your place in the sun

Well everybody's panning for gold
And you can find it for a price
And love always promised us to last forever
But sometimes it just don't work out

'Cause laughing lighthearted tunes
Oh, sometimes time they turn to blues
So tell yourself a joke or two
'Cause everyday invites you to find your place in the sun

It's time to find your place in the sun
Find your place
Find your place in the sun
It's time to find your place in the sun
Come on now ...
It's time to find your place in the sun

'Cause laughing light-hearted tunes
Oh sightseeing afternoons
And telling a joke or two
'Cause every day invites you to find your place
'Cause every day invites you to find your place in the sun

It's time to find your place in the sun
It's time to find your place in the sun yeah
It's time to find your place in the sun

Find your place
Find your place in the sun

It's time to find your place in the sun
Come on now ...

It's time to find your place in the sun...

Come on now...

It's time to find your place in the sun

Written by: BUD COCKRELL, CORY CHARLES LERIOS
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
℗ 1977 A&M Records

Driving my 71 Ford Torino with Pablo Cruise and getting bj’s in the back seat! Good times!

Life crashin' down around me on all sides...girl dumps me...I make a last minute late night decision to throw some clothes in a duffle bag and make the drive to Laguna...this song plays on the car radio...

Its time to find your place in the FUN!

Washington State University-1978-Pablo Cruise kicked ass!

Critics savaged this group as hopelessly pop/mainstream/MOR but it turns out they were actually out of the SanFran acid-hippy scene. Every band has to find an audience and they can't all ape The Grateful Dead. I was a fan of these guys even though my younger brother thought I was a hopeless philistine. I think they found a great jazz/rock/pop/funk groove.

The 70’s.. I miss them so

42 years later, still looking for my place in the sun.

Well everybody's heart needs a holiday, some time
And everyone of us needs to get away, some how
'Cause laughing light-hearted moods
Oh, sight seeing afternoons
And telling a joke or two
'Cause everyday invites you to find your place in the sun
It's time to find your place in the sun
Find your place
Find your place in the sun
Its time to find your place in the sun
Well everybody's panning for gold
And you can find it for a price
And love always promised us to last forever
But sometimes it just don't work out
'Cause laughing lighthearted tunes
Oh, sometimes time they turn to blues
So tell yourself a joke or two
'Cause everyday invites you to find your place in the sun
It's time to find your place in the sun
Find your place
Find your place in the sun
It's time to find your place in the sun
Come on now
Come on now
It's time to find your place in the sun
'Cause
And sightseeing afternoons
And telling a joke or two
'Cause every day invites you to find your place
'Cause every day invites you to find your place in the sun
It's time to find your place in the sun
It's time to find your place in the sun
It's time to find your place in the sun
Find your place
Find your place in the sun
It's time to find your place in the sun
It's time to find your place in the sun

Very California :)

MRS Neil Lindsay----This is one of the best songs from my hogh school life!

The best, Jerry, the best.

Running Cross Country in college in '76/ '77!!

It's time to find a place in the sun. Bra!!

Thanks for a place in the moon.

Late 1977 I was a 19 year old boy so happy with life

Fishin' off the Gandy bridge on Tampa bay. Nights in Pinellas Park chasing some of the hottest girls on the planet. Yeah, that was my place in the sun. Wish I could go back in time 40 odd years to live it all over again!

Can't help but smile when I hear this tune....brings me back to playing baseball then hanging in the French Quarter. Great memories.

Saw them live on PBS Sound Stage in 78 and they rocked!! It is now available on DVD for $12 on Sound Max and worth it!!

My Dad died the week this song came out. I bought the casette tape and played it in his honor after the funeral. Thanks to the band Pablo Cruise for helping me get through that tough time.

Anyone remember the ad for this album? Hot model in a bikini ripping off her mink coat. SEVENTIES HEAVEN, y'all!

miss you Bruce

D. J.. EMMMANUEL THANKS NEW ONE MORE THINGS. . THE EDY CLAPTON. TEARS IN HEAVEN LOVE YOU BYE RESPECT HONESTY INTEGRITY TO THE FATHER'S IN HEAVEN THANKS

OKAY GUY'S TIME TO GO HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN GETTING CLOSES YOU DON'T KNOW WHY DELAILA. SAMSUNG. POOR GUY. I SEE YOU MAYBE TO MOTO . LIKE CHACHON CHINESE ME

Summer Song Beach Song!

I never forget the first albums I played on my first good stereo. This was one of them.

Wow, great times. Inspirational song. It’s time to find your place in the son. There’s some crosscurrent there. Pray hard, play hard. Enjoy, make something better today.

this makes me to say to everyone who posted. i love you all. the year was 1976. i was an accomplished percussionist. at 15. i play all these tunes. by ear. did not read music til my mid twenties. i love you all. i was blessed to find puerto rico. jesus is awesome beyond. cristo te ama. hoy .ayer. y para siempre

What's. with. all. the. periods.?

Great memories of 1977 and Pablo Cruise is awesome and especially this tune!

Driving down Apache Bld in Tempe with Toad Hall (KDKB) on the radio was the ultimate "Place" to find the sun. The 70's in Tempe were special.

THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS SONG WHAT MEMORIES OF MY HIGH SCHOOL
GOING TO THE BEACH ON EVERY WEEKEND WITH MY FRIENDS WHAT A JOY

louie music, lewis , ripped off our family, thx donny.

new Chevy Camero t tops out cruising around town special lady by my side awesome times. wind blowing thru the t tops wow please take me back

My first memory of California after moving here in 1976 as a 14 year old boy is listening to  Pablo Cruz's Finding your Place in the Sun.

I am more familiar with the band's major hits, but this song sounds vaguely familiar. Perhaps, if I was placed under hypnosis, I would remember the time when I first heard this track.

This California based group is so fun. Time to find my place in the sun. 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

Back in 77...great music..great memories....

1260 KYA. The Big 610 KFRC

l had the best of times, with pablo music, in muskoka, 1973, wintertime, blas, takes it away, listen.

senior trip, kings dominion viginia1978! it was great!

this song only went to #42 on the pop charts in 1977!!!

They stole the melody of the chorus from Grand Funk Railroad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBreDtazad8

WOW, Thanks.

I am thrilled to so many younger people digging the songs of Pablo Cruise. I was in my teens when they arrived on the national stage as a band. Their earlier work was amazing, the first three albums were so pure.

And I see someone comment "can we please bring back Pablo Cruise?". Sadly, not like they were in the earlier days. The true heart of the Pablo Cruise project were the trio of Cory Lerioa, Dave Jenkins and Bud Cockrell. Cory's keyboards, Dave's lead guitar and Bud's amazing bass and his unmistakable voice were as good as it got.

Sadly, Bud died in 2010 after a truly tragic life. Bud left Pablo in 1977, just as the album "A place in e Sun was going from gold to platinum and they were finally getting mainstream airplay. Bud left not because of animosity, but because the love of his life, Pattie Santos, who he had met and fallen for when they were both in the band "It's a Beautiful Day". He has always wanted to record an album with Pattie, and A & M record execs saw it as a true calling for Bud, and signed Cockrell and Santos as a duo.

Their album, New Beginnings met with critical acclaim, but didn't sell well and they fell into obscurity for a while. They married, and had a child. Tragically, in 1989, Pattie was killed in a auto accident.

Her death was something Bud Cockrell would never get over. He became a bit of a recluse in his home state of Mississippi. He developed diabetes, and in his later years lost both of his legs due to osteomyelitis(dangerous infection of the bones, a complication from diabetes).

He passed away at the age of 59, just weeks shy of his 60th birthday in Mississippi. Bud Cockrell was a remarkably talented bassist and vocalist. His soulful voice graced many tracks by Pablo Cruise. Look for "Look to the Sky", "Rock and Roller", "Tearin' down my mind" and by all means listen to "Ocean Breeze", "Zero to sixty in five" and "El Verano" to hear his amazing bass riffs and the signature sounds on Zero to Sixty in Five were made prolific on ABC's Wide World of Sports in the 1970's and early 80's.

Go and find those songs, and try to grab their first three albums if you want to hear them at their purest.

Regards,
JJ McCartney
Old-timer Radio personality and host!

Always loved this album!

Reminds me of myself and Bisser my old stoner buddy playing frisby at the beach, chasing the muff around 77/78

As a young adult i can really appreciate classic music like this

One of the best pop bands from the 70's!

This defines the late 70s for me, along with so many other wonderful and diversible groups: listen closely for musical integrity, i. e: lyrics, harmony, orchestration... and find it all here.

every needs a place in the sun @ worlds away

Ernest David Morgan Jr. thanks for introducing me to this song!!!😘

China peek California ( a ski resort) this band, great day, good friends, who could could ask for more?

Bought all of their vinyl while I was also buying ELO, Gordon Lightfoot, The Carpenters, Paul McCartney and Wings, and the list goes on.... this stuff rocked. Just give an objective listen.

urbeuti

These guys played at my 8th grade middle school dance. Everyone, teachers, students were all dancing. It was surreal

easyscore you are so lucky..

Favorite summer song of all time--- time to head to the beach, pitch your umbrella and put those tootsies in the sand!

saw P C at the Yakima county fairgrounds in 78.Great gig outside on a warm sept eve everything was right with the world good herbage,great music !!!#Columbian

i love these guys! we all hang out together!

driving my new Camero with the t tops out, this song playing on the radio , please take me back awesome

When spring fades to summer sun, it's just time to pull out the Cruise and dust it off...Crank up the stereo and JAM in the sun. SO many cool times to these tunes !

I was 28 when this album came out and I just didn't have the money to buy more than one Pablo Cruise album. My sister, 8 years younger than I, bought all of their albums. See, it was really cool, great music!

Great Song Guys, I remember it well from the good old 70's when I was a teenager, good to hear it again!

Day on the green with many other great groups....Calaveras county great time.....

My youth memories on the sunny so. cal. beaches

Hey👀💢

this song inspired me to move south in the late 70S

Music is color my friends....lol.xo

This is one of the top bands back in the day where my friends and I used to listen to this in the Summer along with the other great Classic Rock Bands like 'The Rascals, 3 Dog Night Night, Grand Funk, Vanilla Fudge, Humble Pie, The Who and the other great bands on the radio.

cory lerios musical contributions are so very Evident here .

70s were the best with this music setting the mood, up in ,muskoka at donny's place, looking at the lake, on sat eve, gettin hammered, louies crazy friends and jane, l liked judy's sister, wonder where she is today, finding a place in the sun.

One of my favorite albums

refreshing! would somebody bring pablo cruise back, please

reynaldoable1 check their website pablocruise.com. They are still touring. Steve Price lives up Highway 80 east of Sacramento, CA in a small town called Loomis. They play a benefit concert there early every December. They are out there.

SgtBooker44 They're still great, however, even if all the originals that are on this record aren't here.

It's July 24th, 2017, and they are playing in a town called Roseville, between sacramento and Loomis. It's a free "Tuesday Night Music Series" and it's like 5 miles from my house! :) Soooo there!!!!

Got to see them at EPCOT a couple of years ago. Still amazing!

This song makes me miss driving down highway 1 between Monterrey and Santa Cruz, then over the mountains to San Jose on highway 17. Sometimes I wish I could afford to move back there.

I think it would be nice to go back to those times but most of the people in the Bay Area now aren't really Bay Area people they're there because of money so no way you're not missing the real deal. The magic still there but if you were there before Tech you saw what it really was all about.

I went to San Jose State University and made that trip whenever I could. Awesome views!

I grew up and live here today... still Pablo Cruisin'. Keeping the spirit alive indoctrinating my kids with the classics of yesteryear. Just saw Boz Scaggs at the Mountain Winery.

Go for it

Sounds like a nice ride!

Lessons learned! Reminds me that Anita Baker, the smooth jazz songstress, refers to herself as a strong classic rock freak.

Wow, one of my all time favorite classic rock tunes! ....yeah Im a black man, but c'mon, back then you turned on the radio and this stuff was all you heard. No prob!

Dan One OMG!! LETS PUT ON OUR ROLLER SKATES AND REALLY SCARE THEM! :0)

Keith Bell Hey Keith. Right. Back in the day the radio knew no color. Songs were judged by sound alone. I sure miss those days. Take care.

Good is good.

These guys had soul

Awesome. A fellow realist! AMJ

great song

Love Pablo the best ever!!!

Love this song. With a glass of wine

Thanks for the post love this album great memories.

I heard this on that 70s show for the first time I love this group :)

The title song from their 1977 album "A Place in the Sun."

I have not heard them on the radio for 20 years, whats up?

brilliant Band !

Many great and wonderful times when I was in high school 10th grade and listening to this song with my high school sweetheart who I am with today 43 years later really far out man!

Man does this bring back great memories. One of my favorite bands in the 70s.

That is what I want a place in the sun, near the ocean somewhere.

I saw them in 1978 in Ohio, near Tiffin , outdoor concert with Journey. Great show.

+JD M Was at that concert too, tripping out on blankets, on the hillside. As much as I recall, there weren't many people there. Can't remember the other bands there besides them and Journey. Great concert though.

MET Stadium Bloomington Minnesota with the Eagles and Steve Miller, summer 1978

In there prime awesome!

i was there! journey had just released their infinity album and were warming up for cruise. great show!

Boogie hill??

I saw them in Seattle, at The Paramount Northwest in 1977. They put on a GREAT show!!!!

D TheBassman that was about the same time I saw Chuck Mangione there too :)