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4 Apr 2016

3 April 2016

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*+Hit me with your best shot by The Party Girls.

Just a Dream by Nena. Her 10^th single release, but just the second in English after 99 Red Balloons. This was from 1984.

*You’re gonna get hurt by Jenny Morris. Request.

+I’m Diggin you by Me’Shell Ndgéocello. 1993 track from Plantation Lullabies. She’s openly bisexual.

*+Venus by The Party Girls.

+ Occasionally by Melissa Etheridge. from the album Melissa Etheridge, released in 1988…It’s also a Bill Young song…

Aussie women:

*Magic Rhythm by Christie Allen. Title track from her 1979 debut album from Mushroom Records. She was born in the UK but hit it big recording here in Australia so we count her. For example, she was voted the Most Popular Female Performer at the TV Week / Countdown Music Awards for 1979 and 1980. She died in 2008 of pancreatic cancer.

*Chains by Tina Arena. from her 1994 album Don’t Ask. It was composed by Arena, Pam Reswick and Steve Werfel and produced by David Tyson. “Chains” scaled the charts in the UK to #6, and charted well throughout Europe, earning her numerous awards in the process. The song was also a minor hit in the United States, peaking at #38 on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed in the top 100 for 12 weeks.

*Bedroom Eyes by Kate Ceberano. 1989 song famous for spending six weeks at No. 2, but became the seventh highest selling single of the year.

*Something’s Missing (In My Life) by Marcia Hines. Second single release from her fourth studio album, Ooh Child, both released in 1979.

*It’s Alright by Gyan. 1989 follow up single to her smash debut, Wait. It’s also on her debut self-titled album.

*Bop Girl by Pat Wilson. Patricia Mary Higgins is an Australian singer and journalist who wrote for Go-Set, a 1960s and 1970s pop music newspaper, under the pen-name “Mummy Cool” during 1971–1972. Usually regarded as a one hit wonder for this track, written by her then husband Ross Wilson of the bands Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock, to satirise 1980s fashion and pop music.

I want you Back by Sherry Kean. A Canadian pop and country singer, who had a Canadian Top 40 hit in 1984 with this, her debut single. She has since retired.

Nothin’ to It by Pleasure. 1979 b-side to their single release of The Real Thing. Band from Portland, Oregon that blended soul, funk and jazz with a tough street edge that became a cult group on the underground black music scene of the late 70’s.

After the Dance by Marvin Gaye. Request.

Road to Nowhere by Talking Heads. Request.

Private World by Side Effect. Disco and jazz-funk band that recorded between 1972 and 1982. The group was formed by founder and leader Augie Johnson in Los Angeles, California in 1972. This was a track on their 1977 album Goin’ Bananas – their 4^th album.