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Joe Dolce — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 17:07:17 -0000

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steed — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:13:08 -0000

Correctamundo on both. I popped out the 45 of "Shooting Star" and it is in a slightly higher key - but other than that they sound virtually identical to me.

I never pieced two and two together with Toni Basil's "Nobody". I listened to that again now and I like that much better than JD Drews version.

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ElCartero — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:39:22 -0000

I'd had no idea, but Toni Basil's "Don't Want Nobody" (from her first album, the one with "Mickey") was a cover of the J.D. Drews song here. I was on a church ski trip once where somebody brought along that cassette and played the freakin' thing incessantly. Ugh. As you can imagine, I had to turn it off when the chorus started and the recognition hit me.

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ElCartero — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:21:07 -0000

That version of "Shooting Star" may have been a later one. The version that (I think) hit the charts in '80 was recorded in a higher key (E-flat) and had a synth sound more typical of 1980 than the one here. Where did you get it from?

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David Noland — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:47:28 -0000

I've recently discovered this web site and missed a few previous parts. If anyone downloaded Crosby, Stills, and Nash - War Games , Curtie and the Boombox , or Ana -- Shy boys ... I'd love to have a copy if anyone could send it to me.

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DavidMedsker — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:21:42 -0000

Holy crap. Playing the original for the first time. EMF, uh, changed it a little.

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DavidMedsker — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:19:37 -0000

As you wish...

http://earbuds.popdose.com/... - Shaddap You Face.mp3

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jefito — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:36:37 -0000

"Shaddap You Face" by EMF? This I need to hear.

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Joel — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:52:31 -0000

Yup. The 12" version of "Hyperactive" is far superior to the 45 RPM/7" version. MTV gave the song HEAVY airplay during Feb-March 1984 and the video featured the 12" mix. The song really doesn't make much sense in it's edited form. In fact, it kinda sucks. The 12", however, is brilliant. I think it's Dolby's finest moment.

Amazing that "Shaddap You Face" didn't chart top 40. It was THE catch-phrase/buzz record/novelty hit of the spring and summer months of 1981. Sorta like "My Toot Toot" 4 years later (which incidentally didn't go top 40 either....weird).

A shame that D-Train's 1981 R&B/Club jam "You're The One For Me" didn't even crack the Hot 100. That song is a definite old school classic. Then again, a lot of quality dance tracks didn't end up charting during the post-disco years. Seemed like top 40 radio avoided anything that remotely sounded like disco. There were exceptions of course ("Funkytown", "Take Your Time (Do It Right)", "Stomp"), but most of the (blackest) rhythmic music mid-charted ("Super Freak", "Don't Stop The Music", "She's A Bad Mama Jama").

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Elaine — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:46:34 -0000

That just gave me nostalgia for Nethack.

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sfenn — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:34:12 -0000

"Hyperactive!" = slammin'. Love how he sticks in the little "ha". Somewhere I have a 7" of Dollar doing Erasure's "O L'Amour" but I didn't realise they had such an extensive discography of (hit) singles. I feel some Duran Duran coming up.

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Amram — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:20:05 -0000

So. Dragon once called a Texas audience "gay."

AND???

(Can't help but feel that there may be more to the story than that...)

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Eric S. — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:56:25 -0000

I have the Hunter version as well and it sounds slightly different. The Hunter version is a bit longer, but doesn't have the sound effects at the end. The Hunter CD, "Dreams of Ordinary Men" is from 1987. According to the liner notes, "Rain" is the only song on the CD not produced by Todd Rundgren. I bought it specifically to get a copy of "Rain" since my brother had the original Dragon album, which I never saw available on CD.

I agree that lying on a couch in the dark is the best way to experience an album, but it does seem harder to do the older you get. I guess that's the wife and kids trade-off.

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dhrobbie — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:59:50 -0000

A die-hard Phillies fan? They make those?

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steed — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:27:10 -0000

Yep, that's right - no other charting songs other than Captain of Her Heart.

I do have to disagree with you on this one though twostepcub - I hate both Blue and the following record Dou3le....although I have to look at my album again - I don't remember Blue vinyl on my copy. Might have to hunt that down.

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wags — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:13:59 -0000

Hey! two new tracks here for my kids' compilation I make as a Christmas present for my nieces -- Doobies and Shaddap!

As for the music in the dark at night -- it's definitely something I miss too living as a couple... you might get a few nights like that with the baby, though, you might have to listen through some crying...

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breadalbane — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:03:34 -0000

Chambers. Terry Chambers. Terry Williams drummed for Rockpile. The XTC/Dragon drummer was Terry Chambers.

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Your handy guide to really good 80's drummers for UK quasi-new-wave-bands:

Martin Chambers: Pretenders
Terry Chambers: XTC
Terry Williams: Rockpile
Boris Williams: The Cure

That is all.

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breadalbane — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:56:34 -0000

XTC alert! That's Andy Partridge on harmonica on "Europa and The Pirate Twins". And that's Terry Williams on drums for Dragon. (After leaving XTC, he moved to Australia, and played with Dragon from 83 to 85.)

Perhaps not coincidentally, Dolby and Dragon are -- for me anyway -- the class of the field in this particular post.

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MichaelFortes — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:50:56 -0000

I don't think I heard D-Train's "Something's on Your Mind" till last year, might have even been around this time last year. I had only been familiar with the Miles Davis version for years. It was a staple of his live sets in the mid '80s.

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David_E — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:11:51 -0000

Aside from the Doors, the Doobies and the Dolby, I'd never heard any of these. Or of these people.

Must have been protected by my +2 Cloak of Mainstreamness.

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twostepcub — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:52:29 -0000

nice column as always, Steed! Y'know I completely forgot that Shaddup your face was so recent (i thought 70s)

Jack, Double never hit the pop chart again, but did scrape the Adult Contemporary list with "Woman Of THe World" from the same album Blue. It's a really cool dinner-play album that i loved (maybe partly cuz it was on translucent blue vinyl.)

Cheers
Ernie
2sc

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shweeney — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:47:01 -0000

Genesis? Huey Lewis? You are Patrick Bateman and I claim my £5.

as for Shaddap You Face - was an ENORMOUS hit in the UK. Bewildering.

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jack — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:03:58 -0000

Did the band Double release any charting singles after "Captain of her Heart"? Just curious, not asking if you omitted them on purpose.

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steed — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:47:04 -0000

Ha. Dragon said that about Texans in 1979 - from what I've read they were complete asses during that American tour - stemming from all the drugs Marc Hunter was taking at the time.

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steed — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:39:27 -0000

Thank you. This was an interesting week of some of harder to find tracks.