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Sunshine Radio: AOR, Yacht Rock & FM Pop

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Unsplash Hop in your car, tune in to Sunshine Radio and start driving! šŸ˜Š  The track by State Cows is from their brand new album Closed Doors And Open Shores that came out last week. When Phil Everly had finished his Star Spangled Springer album in 1973, he sent a copy of it to the Hollies. He thought it would be fun if this British band did a cover of one his songs, because they always had expressed their admiration for the Everly Brothers. They actually did cover one of the tracks from the LP, but it was the one song that Phil Everly did not write. They recorded a version of The Air That I Breathe , a song that was composed by Albert Hammond and first appeared on his 1972 album It Never Rains In California . The Hollies made a worldwide success of it, which made Phil Everly and the team that worked on Star Spangled Springer a bit sour. Tracklist: Dave Lewis ā€“ We're Gonna Make It (1976) David Roberts ā€“ Wrong Side Of The Tracks (1982) Greg Guidry ā€“ (Iā€™m) Givinā€™ It Up (1982) ...
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Smooth Sailing: Laid-Back Seventies Boat Trip

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C-Heads Magazine Enjoy some yacht rock with a small touch of disco here and there! One of the songs is from British sixties pop group The Hollies. In the mid-seventies they released Latin inspired Dragginā€™ My Heels that became extremely popular at legendary discotheque The Loft in New York City. Tracklist: Randy Vanwarmer ā€“ Just When I Needed You Most (1979) Muscles ā€“ Love Is All Iā€™ve Got (1977) Synod ā€“ Anchors Away (1978) Darrell John ā€“ Write Your Lucky Number (1979) Leder Brothers ā€“ I'd Like To Touch A Star (1978) The Waters ā€“ If Thereā€™s A Way (1977) Barnaby Bye ā€Žā€“ Can't Live This Way (1974) The Faragher Brothers ā€“ Baby When You Make It With Me (1978) Average White Band ā€“ School Boy Crush (1975) The Hollies ā€“ Dragginā€™ My Heels [Louie Vega Edit] (1976) Udell ā€“ Won't You Try [A Tom Moulton Mix] (1977) 5000 Volts ā€Žā€“ (Walkin' On A) Love Cloud (1976) Hello ā€“ Night Watcher (1978) Kalapana ā€“ When The Morning Comes (1975) Leo Sayer ā€Žā€“ Easy To Love (1977) The Imp...
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All You Need Is Love: Soul Stompers & Sixties Sing-Alongs

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Washington March 1963 Enjoy these northern soul stompers and sixties sing-alongs! šŸ˜Š  Northern soul is more or less the opposite of smooth soul. It is a subgenre and dance movement that surfaced in clubs in Northern England and the Midlands during the late 1960s and the early 1970s. It is basically lesser-known Motown-influenced music from the mid-sixties with a heavy beat and fast tempo (100 bpm and above). Although many of the lyrics of the late rock ā€˜nā€™ roll era sound quite innocent and were mostly about falling in love and getting married, there was certainly a dark side too. At the time no one seemed to care, but songs about schoolgirls were quite common, even when they were sung by 30-year olds, like Chuck Berry. In 1962 he was even sentenced to three years in prison, because he had transported a 14-year-old girl across state lines for the purpose of having sex. When the musical landscape changed in the mid-sixties, fore fronted by the Beatles, the lyrics of the pop hits chan...
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Billboard Disco Top 20 ā€“ February 23, 1980 (Mixcloud Exclusive)

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Pexels Enjoy the most popular disco tracks ranked from 20 to 1, according to Billboard on this day 45 years ago as a Mixcloud Exclusive ! The track by Janice McClain is a remix from DJ legend Larry Levan. It is the norm now, but at the birth of modern dance music in the 1970s, DJs, producers and remixers were rarely the same person. Tim Lawrence writes in his book Love Saves The Day about Larry Levan that he was the first well-known DJ to become a remixer and producer: "Even at the early stage of his remixing career the Garage DJ had created such an important canon that even when he wasn't spinning. it was more than likely that somewhere else he was being spun." Tracklist:  Shalamar ā€“ The Second Time Around Theo Vaness ā€“ I Canā€™t Dance Without You Rufus & Chaka ā€“ Do You Love What You Feel THP ā€“ Good To Me Spinners ā€“ Working My Way Back To You/Forgive Me Girl Phyllis Hyman ā€“ You Know How To Love Me Sylvester ā€“ Canā€™t Stop Dancing Trussel ā€“ Love Injection Janice...
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Sunny Breeze From The West Coast Part 10 ā€“ Palm Tree Soft Rock

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Elijah Hiett Close your eyes and imagine yourself on Highway 1 in a convertible with palm trees on one side and the ocean on the other šŸ˜Š The opening track by Rapallo is from their debut album Merger that came out last year. They are a Montreal-based duo that stands out with playful duet vocals and witty lyrics. According to Bandcamp, their music explores the weirder corners of yacht rock, synth funk, and experimental pop. Tracklist: Kikimora ā€“ You Donā€™t Know [Eddy's Edit] (2025) Rapallo ā€“ Play To Lose (2024) The Smoothies ā€“ Springtime Jubilee (2024) John Miles ā€“ Close Eyes, Count To Ten (1983) Twilight ā€“ Straight To My Heart (1981) Looking Glass ā€“ Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne (1973) Tom Huntington & Mike Baumann ā€“ Time (1981) Dee Dee Sharp ā€“  I Love You Anyway (1980) Seals & Crofts ā€“ Hummingbird (1975) Paul Skyland ā€“ Give Me Your Love (1981) Gary Hyde ā€“ Waste Of Time (1974) Cream And Sugar ā€“ Between Us (1980) Byrne & Barnes ā€“ Love You Out Of Your Mind (1981) Sant...
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Far Away Places: A Funky Chillout Experience

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Pexels Yesterday a lot of snow fell in my hometown of Groningen and this cold weather inspired me to create something warm šŸ˜Š Enjoy! In Heaven Magazine the enigmatic Cosmic Crooner tells about his upcoming second album: ā€œLast summer was a beautiful time. I recorded a lot of material with legendary musicians in the dunes near The Hague. For those songs I was inspired by jazz and progressive soul by Curtis Mayfield, among others. But what I especially listened to and was captivated by was Brazilian music. That makes my new material feel like a big sultry summer evening.ā€ Next week we are going from far away places back to California for a new part of Sunny Breeze From The West Coast ! Tracklist: Burt Bacharach ā€“ Touch (1981) Cosmic Crooner ā€“ Never Wear Your Own Merch (2024) Everything But The Girl ā€“ One Place (1991) Raffi Quijano ā€“ Baby Come Back (2008) Bellestar ā€“ Best Of My Love (2016) Sarah Menescal & Eve St. Jones ā€“ Break My Heart (2023) Mina Okabe ā€“ Maybe One Day (2024) Cl...
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Sunshine Radio & Calypso Drip FM Present Sunlit Eighties Pop

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Pexels I like that upbeat, electronic eighties pop sound a lot and thatā€™s what I wanted to catch in this new part of my imaginary station Sunshine Radio . I used some authentic jingles and air checks to recreate the feeling of the decade. The Calypso Drip FM intro is from an album about a fantasy station with the same name by retro wave artist Gryff. Enjoy! "I knew I wanted a project that reminded me of radio stations of decades past... especially the type you would have on GTA: Vice City. The accessibility and discovery of lost music to the new generation deeply resonates with me." (Gryff) Paris Is One Day Away by British band The Mood stalled at number 42 on the UK singles chart in 1982. Two places higher might have got them a slot on Top Of The Pops and might have catapulted these three good looking guys to world fame, but they did not have the same luck as Wham! Their Young Guns (Go For It) sold badly upon its initial release in November 1982, reaching just number 42 as...
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