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Post by Nightfly on Jul 9, 2021 20:38:31 GMT
Great selection Cartman . New Musik Living by numbers I'm a big fan of New Musik. I don't think they got the recognition they deserved as they seemed to be pushed into the shadows of other synth based bands like Human League, Visage etc. However, leader Tony Mansfield went on to be a quite successful producer for Mari Wilson, Cpt Sensible, A-ha and many others.
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Post by Cartman on Jul 9, 2021 20:58:19 GMT
New Musik only had one other hit I can remember, World of Water, which was a couple of months after Living by Numbers. It was OK, but not as good as the first one, then they disappeared.
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Post by Nightfly on Jul 10, 2021 11:38:06 GMT
New Musik only had one other hit I can remember, World of Water, which was a couple of months after Living by Numbers. It was OK, but not as good as the first one, then they disappeared. Living by Numbers appeared on an ad for Casio calculators around this time. You might remember their first one, Straight Lines, around October '79 at a guess.
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Post by Cartman on Jul 10, 2021 12:10:26 GMT
Thanks Night, I do remember that one now, it's one which had slipped my mind, don't think I've heard it since 79
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Post by Cartman on Jul 10, 2021 12:59:35 GMT
I've got an even longer shot of tracing a song, if you want it, Night. This one was from late 79, and I only ever heard it once. It was one freezing cold morning in about December 79 and I had just got up to get ready to go to work and I put the radio on, as I always did. This really haunting song came on and I've never heard it since. All I can really describe it as is that it sounded a bit like something that Kate Bush might have done, but it wasn't her.
A group called Cock Robin had a song out called The promise that you made, in about 84, and it did sound a bit like that. Other than these bits of information, I don't have anything else, don't know the artist or the song title.
There's another one I only ever heard once too, and I liked, this was by Vangelis, or jon and Vangelis, and it was in September 82. I remember the date as it had been the last night if one of my favourite old Manchester pubs, the George and Dragon, on Bridge Street, and I put the radio on when I got back in, quite late!
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Post by Nightfly on Jul 10, 2021 16:06:39 GMT
I've got an even longer shot of tracing a song, if you want it, Night. This one was from late 79, and I only ever heard it once. It was one freezing cold morning in about December 79 and I had just got up to get ready to go to work and I put the radio on, as I always did. This really haunting song came on and I've never heard it since. All I can really describe it as is that it sounded a bit like something that Kate Bush might have done, but it wasn't her. A group called Cock Robin had a song out called The promise that you made, in about 84, and it did sound a bit like that. Other than these bits of information, I don't have anything else, don't know the artist or the song title. There's another one I only ever heard once too, and I liked, this was by Vangelis, or jon and Vangelis, and it was in September 82. I remember the date as it had been the last night if one of my favourite old Manchester pubs, the George and Dragon, on Bridge Street, and I put the radio on when I got back in, quite late! Just to rule out these first - the Kate Bush soundalike wasn't Judie Tzuke, was it ? She had the haunting Stay With Me 'Till Dawn, but that was in the summer of '79 - besides you probably know that song already. Coming Home by Marshall Hain (of Dancing In The City fame) was a similar one with a haunting vibe to it, but that was at least a year earlier. The Promise by Cock Robin - that was a cracking song, from the summer of '86 which I seem to remember almost rivalled 1976 for great weather. There was a spate of what the press called "Rural Riots" in '86 - young lads trying to recreate Toxteth but in the countryside. There was one in my village that took place about 5 minutes walk away. I didn't hear a thing but got a shock the next morning when I saw our village in The Sunday People LOL ! The Jon & Vangelis one - was it an instrumental or did it have Jon's high voice on it anywhere ? A quick search says they didn't release anything in 1982, but it could have been an album track - or just a Vangelis soundalike. Leave it with me . What a shame we didn't have Shazam back then, eh ?
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Post by Cartman on Jul 10, 2021 19:36:43 GMT
It does sound like the Marshall Hain track, Coming Home, that could be the one. Great stuff again, Night.
The Vangelis track wasn't an instrumental, suspect it was an album track
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Post by Sam Tyler on Jul 14, 2021 16:05:33 GMT
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Post by Cartman on Jul 14, 2021 16:30:51 GMT
Great selection Sam, and great memories. I loved that bit of 78 too.
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Post by Nightfly on Jul 14, 2021 18:46:07 GMT
Great selection, Sam. 78 was a great year for music. However when I think of March '78, this quirky one is always the first that comes to mind. Singer Kenny Young was the guy behind Fox a few years earlier ( Sss-single Bed, Imagine Me, Imagine You). By the looks of it, Yellow Dog were just Fox without Noosha Fox. Deserves an honourable mention just for the lyric Could he please lend her a fiver For her brother, the sweet skin diver
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