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6 Feb 2017

5 February 2017

Show 318

The Mysteries of Love by Alphaville. From The Breathtaking Blue, their third album, released in 1989.

Call Me by Anna Vissi. Request.

Jack a Roe by Jerry Garcia. This is from a rare solo acoustic show he did in 1982. Garcia died in August 1995 of a heart attack while he was in rehab for drug addiction.

Rhythm is a Dancer by Snap! This was released in April 1992 as a single from the album The Madman’s Return, their 2^nd.

Because the Night by The Patti Smith Group. 1978 single penned by Smith and Bruce Springsteen, released on her group’s album Easter.

Venus by Bananarama. I remember summer 1986, working at Darien Lake, usually listening to Bronski Beat on my WalkMan. But the top 40 radio station I could get in the car as I drove out there often played this…

Every Sunday by Crazy Gang. From their 1983 album, We Are the Crazy Gang. They were Italians Claudio Simonetti, Douglas Meakin, Massimo Morante, & Walter Martino.

Dirty Talk by Klein & M.B.O. Request.

Australian music brought to you by the letter S.

*Know your Product by The Saints. 1978 release from the band’s second album, Eternally Yours. It is quite different from the punk-orientation of their first release, with the addition of the prominent horn section. The saints are Ed Kuepper, Ivor Hay and Chris Bailey.

*Magazine Madonna by Sherbet. 1977 single from Photoplay, their 6^th studio album.

*+Icarus by Sweet Jayne. Featuring lesbian Cris Bonacci; lesbian drummer Robyn Clark was previously with the band but had left by the time this was released in ’81.

*Girl with a White Stick by Sekret Sekret. from Sydney, 1979 – 1984. Led by the Irish born David Virgin, the band we’re hugely influencial in the Sydney underground music scene and achieved 5 Number 1hits in the Australian Independent Music Charts. This was a 1984 single, right at the end of their run.

*Too Hot to Touch by Supernaut. Their 1976 debut single. They only put out one album under this name. Two years later they were The Nauts, less glam rock, more new wave, and put out a second self-titled album. They broke up in 1980.

*+A Heroine of Mine by Judy Small. From her 1982 Best Of album.

Strike It Up by Black Box. Request. 1991

The Music is Movin’ (Mars Plastic remix) by Fargetta. Request. 1992

That’s the Game by Wet. Jan Van Den Bergh and Johan Vandewalle’s 1983 debut single as Wet. They were Dutch … or Belgian. Can’t find much else.

Dreams by Quench. Request.

Dance Tonight by Tommy Bow. 1983 Italo disco, the artist’s real name was Antoine van Bladel. He also worked under Jimmy McFoy…why, I don’t know.