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Pexels Some classic 70s yacht pop/rock, perfect to play on a boat trip along the West Coast with a drink in your hand and good company on your side!😊 The only exception is the track by Young Gun Silver Fox, which is from the new compilation Too Slow To Disco Neo: The Sunset Manifesto 2 . Enjoy! In the mid-seventies successful Dutch band The Cats went to Los Angeles to record with the best West Coast musicians around at the time. Top notch musicians like Jeff Porcaro, David Foster and Larry Carlton played on their LP Hard To Be Friends . The track How Did You Feel is a L.A. recording from the album, but I don’t know who actually played on it. I Know That I’m Dreaming by the mysterious The Exchange & Mart is from the compilation Occasional Rain by Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs (Saint Etienne): “This is England, the day after the 60s. It’s a time of flux. On the cusp of progressive rock but without a rule book, many groups hold fast to psychedelia’s adventurousness and melodic deligh...

Tom Rompel Enjoy this new episode of Reeling In The Years as a Mixcloud Exclusive ! In 1977 yacht rock began to take shape with two pivotal albums: Aja by Steely Dan and Livin' On The Fault Line by The Doobie Brothers. The smooth sound started to spread like an oil stain. Photographer Tom Rompel about the Volkswagen Beetle: "Back then this was the reminder of the Nazi regime. The California boys turned it into the Beach Buggy in 1970s. And then times changed and we all remember how good it was to run that beach buggy on the skirts of a rising tides." Graham Nash wrote Just A Song Before I Go on a bet. David Crosby explained in the liner notes to their 1991 boxed set: "Graham was about to go off on tour. The guy who was going to take him to the airport said, 'We've got 15 minutes, I'll bet you can't write a song in that amount of time.' Well you don't smart off to Nash like that, he'll do it. This is the result." Going to the airpo...

Nereyda Bird Some ballads here and there, but mainly quality disco on the Billboard soul chart at the end of August 1979. Enjoy the list from 30 to 1! 😊 Peaches and Herb were known as the sweethearts of soul during the 1960s and had a string of hits, most notably Let’s Fall In Love in 1966. When the hits dried up, they decided to quit the music business. Herb Fame became a police officer, but after a few years he started to record again with Van McCoy and a newly recruited Peaches, Linda Greene. Their first record flopped, but when Herb called his old friend Freddie Perren and asked him to make a record together, they hit the big time. Their first single, Shake Your Groove Thing , went gold peaking at number 4 on the soul chart and number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1978. The follow-up single, Reunited , earned platinum status, holding on to the number 1 spot for 4 weeks on both the soul and pop chart. We've Got Love did best in the Netherlands, where it reached number ...

Pexels Enjoy the radio sound of the 1980s! Because of the warm weather in the Netherlands lately, I uploaded a bonus episode of Sunshine Radio this week😎 The track by Ava Max is some kind of mash-up I did with Michael Sembello’s Maniac.  The two songs are quite similar in a way.  The incredible guitar solo on Running With The Night by Lionel Richie was played by Steve Lukather, one of the founding members of Toto. Lukather sat down in the studio and the engineer played the basic parts of the song, for him to hear for the first time, so he could plan his solo. As the music played, he jammed along on his guitar. At the end of the track, he said to the engineer, "Okay, I'm ready for a take." Producer James Anthony Carmichael then replied, "That was a take." They'd been recording his warm up, and that's what you hear on the record. Richard Marx was one of the backing vocalists and Jeff Porcaro (Toto) played drums on the track. In the late summer of 1987 th...

Katie Rodriquez Enjoy this new episode of Sunshine Radio with some authentic AM & FM radio jingles and a sound clip from Bob Stewart on Radio Caroline! The tracks by Areray and Frank Pisani are from the new compilation  Box Of Delights Vol.1 . At the beginning of the 1960s, AM radio (mostly on the so-called "medium wave") was by far the most popular format. It was the more tightly programmed, singles-oriented band on the dial that played the hits of the moment . "Big bang" pop songs, like the ones from Motown, sounded good on portable mono radios and in Europe they were mainly played by off-shore pirate stations, like Radio Caroline. Around the mid-70s FM radio on stereo hifi equipment replaced the transistor radio and pirate stations disappeared one by one, due to government decisions. Eventually, FM radio that played longer album tracks as well and had the advantage of a better sound quality, became the new standard.  “AM Pop delivered songs by most of the be...