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21 Mar 2016

20 March 2016

Show 277

Kundalini Express by Love & Rockets. Second track on Express, the second album by the British band Love and Rockets, released in 1986.

The Dude by Quincy Jones. Request.

+I Sweat Going Through the Motions by Nona Hendryx. Bisexual singer who got her start in LaBelle…with Patti, singing Lady Marmalade. She’s openly bisexual, according to the Advocate. This is a 12” single from 1984.

I’m in love with a German Film star by The Passions. British band The Passions. It was released as a single in 1981 and reached number twenty-five on the UK Singles Chart. It was the band’s only single to reach the charts.

+Sugar Don’t Bite by Sam Harris. Openly gay American singer’s first successful single, released in 1984. He won Star Search in 1983 with Somewhere Over the Rainbow…and yet people didn’t know… Sigh.

All that money wants by Psychedelic Furs. Album was All of This and Nothing, released in 1988 – mostly a compilation of other songs but this one was written specifically for the album. Hit no. 1 in the US for modern rock tracks. Didn’t do much anywhere else, though. I saw these guys about 12 years ago in a fantastic show where they opened for The GoGos and then B52s. Great outdoor venue in CA filled with people in their 30s acting like they were 15.

+Tarzan Boy by Baltimora. 1985 release from Italian New Wave dance outfit Baltimora, active in the mid to late 1980s, and featuring gay northern Irishman Jimmy McShane. He died of HIV/Aids in 1994 at just 37.

+Lolly Lolly by Wendy and Lisa. Request.

The Chauffeur by Duran Duran. Request.

Aussies who have had acting careers as well (inspired by Jon English last week):

*Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi by Kylie. or I Don’t Know Why is a pop song written by British production team Stock, Aitken and Waterman for Kylie’s self-titled debut album Kylie (1988). The song was released as the fourth single in 1988 and was a top hit in the United Kingdom, debuting at number eleven before climbing to number two and remaining there for three weeks. In the United States and Australia the song was also known as “I Still Love You (Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi)”.

*A Little More Love by Olivia Newton-John. The lead single from her 1978 album, Totally Hot. I really liked it back in the day and it still has that steamy feeling that I sometimes like in a song. Her acting career hardly needs to be listed here…

*Rhythm of the Rain by Jason Donovan. Jason Donovan’s 1990 cover of this 1962 Cascades’ tune. He started off in the soap Neighbours and has done loads since then.

*I’ve done everything for You by Rick Springfield. 1981 cover of the Sammy Hagar tune from 1978…I’ll have to play the original sometime! Who knew?? It was Springfield’s follow up to the huge hit Jessie’s Girl. He was also a dr on US soap, General Hospital.

*Girl on the Wall by Jane Clifton. 1984, Jane is better known as badgirl Margo Gaffney on Australian tv drama series “Prisoner Cellblock H”.

*This is It by Dannii. Covered on her second album Get into You (1993). Orig song written by Van McCoy and performed by Melba Moore for her fifth album This Is It (1976). She was of course on YTT and Home and Away.

Perfect Way by Scritti Politi. Request.

Holiday in Cambodia by Dead Kennedys. 1980 single from San Francisco punk band, which was re-recorded for the band’s first album, 1980’s Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. This is the longer, album version.

Running up that Hill by Kate Bush: In 1978, at age 19, she topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut song “Wuthering Heights”, becoming the first woman to have a UK number-one with a self-written song. This is from her 1985 album Hounds of Love, released in the UK on 5 August 1985…the day I turned 18.

Type by Living Colour. Request.

The Cutter by Echo and the Bunnymen: first mainstream hit for what had been a more alt, post-punk band out of Liverpool – 1983 off Porcupine.

Eye of the tiger by Survivor. 1982. It was written at the request of Sylvester Stallone for the film Rocky III, as a replacement for Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” for which Stallone was unable to obtain permission. The mix of the song heard in the film features tiger growls, though these are omitted on the album and single versions. It is also the fight song for the university where I worked – go Tigers of the University of the Pacific!