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Sunny Breeze From The West Coast Part 8 – Dutch Edition

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C-Heads Magazine This week we will sail along the Dutch West Coast and play some AOR, yacht rock & polder pop from the Netherlands. A lot of Dutch bands and musicians were influenced by the late seventies/early eighties West Coast sound, like so many artists elsewhere. “Perfect sitting down dancing music”, according to Questlove in an upcoming HBO documentary about yacht rock. In 1974 successful Dutch band The Cats went to L.A to record Love In Your Eyes with the best West Coast musicians around in those days, like keyboard player/producer Michael Omartian (Christopher Cross). Be My Day from the album became a number one hit in the Netherlands and reached the 18th position on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. A year later they again went to L.A. and made an album with Jeff Porcaro, David Foster and Larry Carlton as first class musicians. Unfortunately, both West Coast albums did not bring them the international success that they wanted and they split soon afterwards, altho
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Sunshine Radio: Hit Sound Of Eighties Yacht Rock, Soul & Pop

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Pexels Enjoy this new show on Sunshine Radio ! 😊  The idea behind this cloudcast was to make an eighties radio mix with authentic air checks and jingles that really sound like that particular decade. I got inspiration when I worked with Martijn Soetens as The Smooth Operators on a similar project recently. Dutch producers and songwriters Bernard Oattes and Rob van Schaik used to call themselves The Limit and composed several great dance/pop tracks, for instance Love Take Over by Five Star and She's So Divine by Jan Akkerman. As a duo they released a full-length album in 1985, which contained their hit single Say Yeah with background vocals from Gwen Guthrie and David Sanborn on saxophone. For legal reasons they became Oattes Van Schaik, just before they released their album. Due to the confusion after their name change and the different titles of their album ( The Limit and Love Attaxx ), the sales were poor and the so-called "Dutch Hall & Oates" disappeared from
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Fresh West Coast Breeze 2024: Today’s Best AOR & Yacht Rock

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Alexandre Weiss A selection of the best aor, yacht rock and eighties inspired music in 2024 so far. Enjoy! Loved Up by seventies influenced singer Joel Sarakula is from his new album that will be out next week. You can hear echoes on it of yacht rock icons like Ned Doheny, Boz Scaggs, Todd Rundgren and Michael Franks. “Joel Sarakula's new album Soft Focus is a mid-career album spanning his many influences and genres including Soft-Rock, Funk and Indie Pop, all brought under the umbrella of his gentle gaze and a 'soft' aesthetic.” (Bandcamp) This cloudcast will become a Mixcloud Exclusive on November 5, 2024. Next time there will be a new show on Sunshine Radio ! 😊 Tracklist: Aspen Creek (Feat. Ole Børud & Lars Säfsund) – Tomorrows Girl Joel Sarakula – Loved Up Igor Gerzina & Anya Alu – Georgy Porgy Fonteyn – Jody Citrus Sun – Mister Mellow Garrett Adair – Saturday Sea Span – Harbor Lights Later – Baby, Come Over Tonight Base Stereo Club & Disco Bahia
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Billboard Hot Soul Singles – October 25, 1975

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Pexels Enjoy the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart, dated on October 25, 1975 and ranked from 20 to 1! There are quite a few pure soul tracks in this Billboard chart . An exception is Fly Robin Fly by Silver Convention that by today's standards is called 'disco' instead of 'soul'. The song was initially called Run Rabbit Run , but when German producers Silvester Levay and Michael Kunze heard a song on the radio called Run Rabbit , they changed it into Fly Robin Fly . The song with its sparse vocals, funky bass, hammering piano and repeating violins went to number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number 5 in the Netherlands in 1975. After being a hit single almost everywhere, Levay and Kunze chose singers Linda G. Thompson, Ramona Wulf and Penny McLean to be permanent members of Silver Convention. The next year they had another huge hit with Get Up And Boogie . Then success started to fade. Tracklist: Joe Simon – Music In My Bones Labelle – Messin’ With My
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Cashbox R&B Top 20 – October 25, 1975 (Mixcloud Exclusive)

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Pexels Enjoy the Cashbox R&B Top 20 from October 25 1975 as a Mixcloud Exclusive for subscribers ! Natalie Cole's career had a jump-start on Capitol Records in the mid-seventies. After years of failing sales and performances due to a heavy drug addiction, Cole re-emerged as a pop artist with the 1987 album Everlasting and her cover of Bruce Springsteen's Pink Cadillac . In the 1990s, she re-recorded standards by her father Nat King Cole, resulting in her biggest success, Unforgettable... With Love , which sold over seven million copies and also won Cole numerous Grammy Awards. Tracklist: Jeff Perry – Love Don’t Come No Stronger Staple Singers – Let’s Do It Again B.T. Express – Peace Pipe Aretha Franklin - Mr. DJ (5 For The D.J) Commodores – This Is Your Life Pete Wingfield – #18 With A Bullet Joe Simon – Music In My Bones Esther Phillips – What A Diff’rence A Day Makes Silver Convention – Fly Robin Fly Smokey Robinson – The Agony And The Ecstasy Impressions –
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Fade To Grey: New Pop Sound Of The Eighties

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Unsplash We all fade to grey, that is what this mixtape is all about! 😊 The tracks by Plastic Estate and Reeve Stimpson are brand new, but they recapture the 'new pop' sound of the eighties wonderfully. You have to watch Reeve Stimpson’s accompanying video on YouTube as well. The songs by Weekend and Chas Jankel are from the compilation Heaven Sent - The Rise Of New Pop 1979-1983 . The term ‘new pop’ was coined by NME journalist and co-founder of record label ZTT, Paul Morley. According to him it was any forward-thinking British music of the early 1980s that was anti-establishment in outlook and not ‘rockist’ (macho men with guitars) or clearly punky. I broadened his definition a little bit by adding some eighties (and new!) indie pop that sounds exactly like the music that Paul Morley originally had in mind. Peter Godwin started as one half of Metro in the 1970s (the other half was Duncan Browne, known for his classic The Wild Places ). The next decade he became a frontrunne
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Smooth Sailing In A Late Night Storm

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Helmuts Rudzitis Enjoy this new part of Smooth Sailing ! The opening track is a recent one by French band Later. The sound of Later is an eclectic mix of pop, soul, French touch, and rock, resulting in an intimate yet richly-produced musical experience, according to C-Heads Magazine. “This song is an invitation to prolong the warm summer evenings with your loved one, it’s all about desire and sensuality.” (C-Heads Magazine) Tracklist: Later – Baby, Come Over Tonight (2024) The Isley Brother s – Smooth Sailin’ Tonight (1987) The Doobie Brothers – You Belong To Me (1977) Chic – A Warm Summer Night (1979) Ahmad Jamal – Boat Ride (1979) Side Effect – Midnight Lover (1981) Tamiko Jones – Touch Me Baby (1975) Zwol – Southern Part Of France (1978) Sneaker – No More Lonely Days (1981) Bob James – Westchester Lady (1976) Fruitcake – My Feet Won’t Move (1980) Sunbear – I Heard The Voice Of Music Say (1977) Sun Sect – She's Hot (1984) Finis Henderson – Blame It On The Night (1983)
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