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Enjoy this new Mixcloud Exclusive , packed with guilty pleasures! 😊 The best Middle Of The Road (MOR) music sounds good in every environment. If you put it on, no one runs to the record player to change the music or when it’s on the radio, you don’t feel the need to change the channel at any time. It’s sometimes called silly or dubious pop, but bubblegum pop is simply defined music that’s manufactured to sell as much records as possible and it’s mostly aimed at a very young audience. Bubblegum pop is the opposite of album rock from serious bands, like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Pink Floyd. Having a good time are the keywords. And just like MOR, bubblegum pop always sounds good on the radio, at least in their seventies heyday. Some of the tracks are intentionally funny and could be called "novelty pop" as well, like the one from Typically Tropical. Years later The Venga Boys turned the song into We're Going To Ibiza , but they left out the humour. After writing and pro

Pexels Turn on your nearest stereo equipment, tune in to Sunshine Radio and listen to retro sounds all day long! 😊  The track by The Four Seasons (without Frankie Valli!) is on the upcoming 4CD set Sean Rowley Presents: Guilty Pleasures 20th Anniversary , out on Demon Music Group next Friday: "One-hit wonders and exotic recordings that perfectly soundtracked a sun-kissed ’70s U.S. west coast life style, less so in ’70s Britain." As I wrote earlier, in the mid-seventies British rock band Mud was one of the biggest acts in Europe with quite a few number ones under their belt, but when the decade came to a close, they struggled to survive. On their 1979 album As You Like It frontman and former teen idol Les Gray sang on only 4 tracks, indicating his detachment from the band by then. When the LP and the accompanying single You’ll Like It / Can’t Stop came out, the remaining members had already signed a new record contract and had recruited Margo Buchanan as their lead

Unsplash Some sunshine pop and joyful songs from the 1960s to warm you up and make you feel happy in these cold, dark days of winter! 😊  Sunshine pop is a label that is put on the happy, sometimes a little psychedelic, Californian music of the late 1960s and is lyrically inspired by the peace movement and musically by the vocal harmonies of bands like the Beatles, Beach Boys and Mamas & Papas. It makes you feel like being in warm California: I'd be safe and warm If I was in L.A. California dreamin' On such a winter's day (California Dreamin') The track by West Coast Consortium is from their new 3 CD box set All The Love In The World – Complete Recordings 1964 to 1972 : “Not a group from the Cali scene of the 60s, as their name might make you expect – but instead a very cool UK group, and one who've picked up some of the best sunshine pop inspirations of the period, then mixed them with trippier touches as well!” (Dusty Groove) Primarily recorded in Los Angeles

Jess Loiter We're sailing as smooth as possible into 2024 😊 Enjoy! American soft rock band Gulliver was formed in the late 1960s in Philadelphia. One of the members was then unknown backing singer and keyboard player Daryl Hall. They released one album only in 1970, then Daryl Hall left the band to form a successful duo with John Oates.  In 1980, You Might Need Somebody by American country singer and guitarist Turley Richards peaked at number 54 on the Billboard Hot 100. A year later, Randy Crawford covered the song for her album Secret Combination . Her version reached number 11 on the UK singles chart, but it was a modest success worldwide. English singer Shola Ama's 1997 version charted well throughout Europe and New Zealand, which made this version the most successful one.  When the hits dried up in the late 1970s, British band Mud tried to get back on top in 1978, but the record company made a great mistake to release Cut Across Shorty as a single. It was the we

Matthew Leland Let’s start the year with the golden years of FM radio 😊 Enjoy!  The closing track by JIM is brand new. It's a project from JIm Baron, a member of house/disco band Crazy P and he's also known as Ron Basejam. Phillip Mitchell only released one single for Event Records in 1975. Despite the beautiful ballad There’s Another In My Life being an R&B hit, he did not have a follow-up. However, there were three songs recorded at the Brad Shapiro-led Muscle Shoals session, and I’ll See You In Hell First was the superb mid-tempo track that was shelved until compiled on an Ace CD in 1990. The Bee Gees have had a great musical career, but they always seemed to take themselves a little bit too seriously. In the media they appeared to have little self-criticism and even walked out of a TV program by BBC presenter Clive Anderson because they appeared to lack self-mockery. When their records started to sell less in the early 1980s, according to the brothers, it was due to