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Sunshine Radio Presents New Wave & Eighties FM Pop

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Pexels Enjoy this eighties part of Sunshine Radio ! Again I used some authentic jingles and air checks to recreate the feeling of the decade. In the beginning of the 1980s a whole bunch of new kids on the block came around with a fresh, mostly electronic sound. They ruled the air waves for quite some time, but by the end of the decade all kinds of new genres popped up and new wave suddenly wasnā€™t so new anymore. The musical landscape completely changed with house, hip hop, Britpop and grunge, to name but a few. Only one electro pop band survived in the 1990s and kept on having hits in the US, UK and Europe: The Human League. Tracklist: Kissing The Pin k ā€“ One Step (1985) Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers ā€“ Even The Losers (1980) Soft Cell ā€“ What (1982) Alan Gorrie ā€“ The Girl Upstairs (1985) The Mood ā€“ Passion In Dark Rooms (1982) Associates ā€“ Heart Of Glass (1988) China Crisis ā€“ King In A Catholic Style (Wake Up) (1985) Tears For Fears ā€“ Mad World (1982) Kim Wilde ā€“ Cambodia (1...
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A Soulful Sunday In The Seventies with The Smooth Operators

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Jerry Butler A seventies follow-up to our first Soulful Sunday edition, uploaded by Martijn a few weeks ago. Enjoy! Tragically the career of singer Gwen McCrae who passed away earlier this year was overshadowed by her husband George's success. His million seller Rock Your Baby was originally meant for her to be recorded. On the other hand, she managed to pursue a solo career after their divorce and released a few so-called "rare groove classics": ā€œAffectionately known as the "queen of the rare groove", McCrae had a 1975 soul smash with Rockin' Chair. Her catalogue - which also includes the dancefloor anthem All This Love That I'm Givin', as well as other tracks like 90% of Me Is You, Keep the Fire Burning and Funky Sensation - has been heavily sampled by artists including Lady Gaga, Cassius, Avicii, Madlib, Cypress Hill and Mobb Deep.ā€ (BBC) Tracklist:  Jerry Butler ā€“ (I'm Just Thinking About) Cooling Out (1978) The Chargers ā€“ You Gotta Be A L...
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Record World Black Oriented Singles ā€“ May 31, 1980 (Mixcloud Exclusive)

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Pexels Enjoy the soul chart from 20 to 1 on May 31, 1980, according to one of the leading American music magazines at the time, Record World ! The chart is a mixture of oldschool soul, funk, disco and just a tiny little bit of electro soul (S.O.S. Band). A new decade did not bring a big shift yet.  Donny Hathaway was probably one of the greatest soul singers/musicians of all-time. His career took off in the early 1970s, but it never led to a big breakthrough, mainly because of his mental problems. His desperate situation led to his suicide by jumping of a balcony in 1979, after being  paranoid and delusional during a recording session with Roberta Flack. He has been inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame and won one Grammy Award from four nominations. Hathaway was also posthumously honoured with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Tracklist: Leon Haywood ā€“ Donā€™t Push It, Donā€™t Force It Brothers Johnson ā€“ Stomp! Con Funk Shun ā€“ Got To Be Enough [Edit] Jerry Knight ā€“ Over...
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Billboard Black Singles Chart ā€“ May 28, 1983

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Pexels Enjoy the rundown of this week's most popular soul songs 42 years ago, according to Billboard online ! 1983 was the year that seemed to be some kind of renaissance year for soul music. Exciting new artists (D-Train, Jonzun Crew, Mtume) popped up, old ones returned refreshed (Cameo, Gladys Knight, Chi-Lites) and two soul artists turned into real mega stars (Prince, Michael Jackson). However, the first house records were already successful in the underground scene (but not charted yet), most particularly Clear by Cybetron and within a few years the musical landscape would change radically. A stain on MTV's reputation is definitely that they did not show a single black artist in their early years. They defended themselves by calling themselves a "rock station", which was only partly true. In an interview with MTV, David Bowie complained about this and the interviewer mumbled something completely incoherent. It was only when Michael Jackson became a mega-artist in...
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Smooth Sailing: Slow Disco, Yacht Rock & Sophisti-Pop

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C-Heads Magazine Enjoy this new part of the success series Smooth Sailing ! šŸ˜Š On Bandcamp a listener wrote about the album Merger by Canadian duo Rapallo: "This album is something very special that I believe people will be discovering and falling in love with for decades to come. Itā€™s nothing like anything Iā€™ve heard before - eccentric but accessible, exciting, tasteful, beautiful and fun. Favorite track: Nothing You Can Do." Tracklist: Ned Doheny ā€“ Think Like A Lover (1979) Steve Winwood ā€Žā€“ Second Hand Woman (1980) Rapallo ā€“ Nothing You Can Do (2024) Alessi Brothers ā€“ Put Away Your Love (1982) Men At Work ā€Žā€“ Who Can It Be Now? (1981) Dent May ā€“ Sea Salt & Caramel (2020) Pointer Sisters ā€“ What A Surprise (1981) Tim Green ā€“ Got More Love (1981) Chris Christian ā€“ Day Like Today (1981) Walkers ā€“ Rumour At The Honky Tonk (1979) Cotton Lloyd & Christian ā€“ Crying In The Rain (1976) McGuinn, Clark & Hillman ā€“ Little Mama (1979) Seals & Crofts ā€“ When I Me...
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Billboard Dance/Disco Top 20 ā€“ May 12, 1984

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Pexels Enjoy the Billboard Dance/Disco Top 20 from 20 to 1, dated on May 12, 1984! The name of this chart is a bit misleading, though, For instance, the tracks by new wave/electro pop bands Culture Club, Wang Chung and Talk Talk on this chart cannot be categorized as dance or disco. A better name for this hit list would have been ā€œDisco, New Wave & Electroā€ chart.  The electro artists certainly dominated this weekā€™s top 20 in 1984. Personally I love that specific mid-eighties sound, but it is hard to discover any other instruments than keyboards, synthesizers and electronic drums. So aren't there any guitars in it at all? Oh yes there are, exactly 18 seconds into this mix you hear the first one, a fantastic guitar solo in the intro of Laura Braniganā€™s Self Control . Luckily there are some others great guitar solos on this chart as well. Just check out Coming Out Of Hiding by Pamela Stanley! Tracklist: Laura Branigan ā€“ Self Control Womack & Womack ā€“ Baby, Iā€™m Scared Of ...
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Clap Your Hands & Stamp Your Feet: Golden Years Of Glam Rock II (1972-1976) ā€“ Mixcloud Exclusive

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C Heads Magazine Clap your hands and stamp your feet, that is basically what glam rock is all about! šŸ˜Š  The keywords for this seventies music style were fun, simplicity, energy and extravaganza. Marc Bolan, the frontman of T. Rex, accidentally put some glitters on his face for a Top Of The Pops performance in 1971 and glam rock was born. Although a few glam acts, like Gary Glitter and Sweet had some success overseas, the genre never became big in the United States. Enjoy this Mixcloud Exclusive ! ā€œ(ā€¦) one of the main reasons glam never caught on in the U.S. was that glam artists intentionally played around with gender conventions, dressing themselves up in outlandish, androgynous costumes and makeup.ā€ (Allmusic) Tracklist: Hot Chocolate ā€“ Funky Rock 'N' Roll (1974) Glitter Band ā€“ Let's Get Together Again (1974) Hello ā€“ New York Groove (1975) T. Rex ā€“ Telegram Sam (1972) Sparks ā€“ Something For The Girl With Everything (1975) Bonny St. Claire And Unit Gloria ā€“ Clap You...
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