Classic Track: “Ride Like the Wind,”Christopher Cross

Classic Track: “Ride Like the Wind,”Christopher Cross

“Ride Like the Wind,” and Christopher Cross’s Grammy history-making debut album, might not have happened if Cross hadn’t discovered in time that Michael Omartian had played on Steely Dan’s records. At the meeting when Omartian told Cross that he would be producing him, Cross was less than enthusiastic. Omartian was fairly new at Warner Bros., and he guesses in retrospect that Cross had envisioned someone like Ted Templeman or Lenny Waronker taki…