So during the long journey that was Covid Island Discs I explored different musical themes. One of these themes were strange songs of the 1980s. This song, which was released in 1982, certainly should have made my list as its lyrics are pretty bizarre. The song was inspired by an 80s dance movement which some […]
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My good friend Robert and I had a teenage crush on Toni.
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The original song was performed by Lee Dorsey and was a number one in the 1966 singles charts – the year I was born. 2023 Edit: unfortunately the original video I posted back in 202 has been taken down by Youtube so now I can only find an album version of the song sadly. And
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“I heard you on the wireless back in ’52…”“Ohwa Ohwa”
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Let’s really go crazy. This is one of our Rebekah’s favourite. Love the guitar player. “I know why you went away. Understand you couldn’t stay.“
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The crazy 80s! Do people remember this baby? Well actually this song came out in 1979.
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OK from yesterday’s post this Segway could have gone the obvious way (I listed three classic rock tunes which I could now cover) or the psychedelic way I shall choose the latter. So yesterday’s song was Eagle Rock by a band called Daddy Cool. The 3 hit wonder group Boney M wrote a hit song
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