Cartman
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Post by Cartman on May 1, 2024 18:08:38 GMT
I like that Sunny track, it got played on GHR a couple of weeks back. I have great enthusiasm for 70s cheese/guilty pleasures! They're always feel good, happy and melodic. I think the peak period for this kind of lightweight, enjoyable pop was probably the mid 70s, say 72 to about 76
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Post by Nightfly on May 1, 2024 22:59:32 GMT
Last week, when a lass who came to pick up some furniture I had offered on the local Freecycle group was overheard on the phone to her husband telling him she couldn't ask me to help move it as I was "on old man", I read this... Exactly 50 years ago this very week... ... and think she may have a point. Where did 50 years go? Great track. In a similar style and released around the same time, how about Honey Honey from Sweet Dreams. Written by Bjorn and Benny from Abba, but it gave Sweet Dreams their only hit.
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Post by Vienna on May 14, 2024 13:51:48 GMT
I heard Gary Davies playing this one on Radio 2 recently.
A UK Top 10 hit in the spring of 1980.
Bobby Thurston - Check Out the Groove
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Post by Dirty Epic on May 14, 2024 20:29:57 GMT
A early House track from Spring '87 is House Master Boyz - 'House Nation' which hit #8 in May and even managed to blag them a TOTP appearance too. It was mainly the work of Farley Jackmaster Funk (Keith Farley) who'd already had a one hit wonder a year earlier with 'Love Can't Turn Around' a #10 in August '86 and even made #40 again over a decade later in 1996.
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Post by Batgirl on May 15, 2024 8:13:35 GMT
Last week, when a lass who came to pick up some furniture I had offered on the local Freecycle group was overheard on the phone to her husband telling him she couldn't ask me to help move it as I was "on old man", I read this...Exactly 50 years ago this very week... ... and think she may have a point. Where did 50 years go? Great track. In a similar style and released around the same time, how about Honey Honey from Sweet Dreams. Written by Bjorn and Benny from Abba, but it gave Sweet Dreams their only hit. You have to laugh Nightfly when you hear things like that. I remember ABBA as a kid and the no. of years since their first hits surely can't be right!
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Post by Nightfly on May 16, 2024 7:56:10 GMT
It was mainly the work of Farley Jackmaster Funk (Keith Farley) who'd already had a one hit wonder a year earlier with 'Love Can't Turn Around' a #10 in August '86 and even made #40 again over a decade later in 1996. Good call, DE. The Love Can't Turn Around vocalist (was he called Daryl Pandy?) with a live soulful vocal on TOTP from the early days of Chicago house. Far better in my opinion to the following years when anyone with a drum machine and synth jumped on the bandwagon and the soul/funk element got lost amongst a bunch of samples of old songs with the odd James Brown "Ah yeh" thrown in.
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Post by Dirty Epic on May 17, 2024 8:58:06 GMT
It was mainly the work of Farley Jackmaster Funk (Keith Farley) who'd already had a one hit wonder a year earlier with 'Love Can't Turn Around' a #10 in August '86 and even made #40 again over a decade later in 1996. Good call, DE. The Love Can't Turn Around vocalist (was he called Daryl Pandy?) with a live soulful vocal on TOTP from the early days of Chicago house. Far better in my opinion to the following years when anyone with a drum machine and synth jumped on the bandwagon and the soul/funk element got lost amongst a bunch of samples of old songs with the odd James Brown "Ah yeh" thrown in. ROFL that's the form of 'house' I like the most Nightfly. I also like the soulful stuff too a lot of the Chicago stuff from Farley, Steve Silk Hurley, Marshall Jefferson and one I really like Larry Heard did have a lot of those deep and soulful touches too and sometimes I like and appreciate it as much if not more than the straight up 'jack' tracks from that period and what came after '88 too. Yeah Daryl Pandy was the vocalist and he sung the hell out of that track even the people who made it appreciate his contribution very highly. Daryl sadly died in 2011 aged 48. RIP.
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