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I wanted to recreate the days of petticoats, diners and jukeboxes (1955-1969). Enjoy the music my parents grew up with in their teenage years and I listened to when I was a little kid! 😊 In the early 1960s Dee Dee Sharp was a teenage star and sang a duet with Chubby Checker, Slow Twisting . In 1968 she recorded What Kind Of Lady for Gamble Records, owned by producer Kenny Gamble whom she had married a year earlier. He became very successful in the 1970s when he created the sophisticated Philly soul sound, together with Leon Huff. The track by Dusty Springfield was produced by Kenny Gamble too and the 1965 single by The Three Degrees was an early Leon Huff production, almost a decade before the ladies worked with him again and became popular worldwide. Marv Johnson’s Come To Me was the first record issued by Tamla Records, the precursor to famous label Motown. Despite his early success in the United States, Johnson ultimately enjoyed more popularity overseas than in his native countr

Burst The electronic revolution had already taken place in the spring of 1983. Even Gladys Knight & The Pips had swapped acoustic instruments for keyboards, drum machines and synthesizers. Some of the older acts, like The Temptations and The Chi-Lites, tried not only to stay hip by using electronic instruments, but also by singing about seducing ladies and chasing girls in clubs, which now sounds a bit awkward for guys over 40. Enjoy this Cashbox black contemporary singles chart from 15 to 1,dated on the 7th of May 1983! Tracklist: The Temptations – Love On My Mind Tonight Fatback – The Girl Is Fine (So Fine) The Chi-Lites – Bottoms Up Gladys Knight & The Pips – Save The Overtime (For Me) The System – You Are In My System Michael Jackson – Beat It Angela Bofil l – Too Tough DeBarge – I Like It Al Jarreau – Mornin’ Kashif – I Just Gotta Have You (Lover Turn Me On) Lionel Richie – You Are The Whispers – Tonight Michael Jackson – Billie Jean George Clinton – Atomic Do

C-Heads / Nessa Pullman As I wrote earlier, around the mid-70s popular off-shore pirate stations that used the AM dial on the radio, disappeared one by one, due to government decisions in Europe. The more sophisticated and technically better FM radio stations were willing to play album tracks and longer songs from bands like Electric Light Orchestra and Steely Dan. Those bands used the improved studio techniques and possibilities to a full extent. Eventually FM radio became the new standard worldwide. Especially in the United States AOR artists came to full bloom on the FM dial. After winning the television talent show Opportunity Knocks, Candlewick Green signed to Decca Records, and had a hit single with the song Who Do You Think You Are? , written by Des Dyer and Clive Scott of the band Jigsaw. The single reached number 21 on the UK singles chart and number 25 on the Dutch Top 40 in the early spring of 1974. Both Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods and Saint Etienne later covered the

Ethan Jones Like so many artists elsewhere, a lot of Dutch bands and musicians were influenced by the West Coast sound too. As my fellow Smooth Operator , Martijn Soetens, once wrote on his blog: “In the Netherlands an umbrella and a sweater are necessary almost any time of year. So it's quite natural that we need sunny music to get our vitamin D.”  Dutch duo (although born in South Africa) Rob and Ferdi Bolland are best known for their work with Austrian singer Falco. They wrote, produced and sang on the Billboard number one Rock Me Amadeus in 1986. In the 1970s they started as a folk duo, sounding like Seals & Crofts, but by the end of the decade they tried several other styles, like disco and the West Coast sound. Free In L.A. is the b-side of their single Music Man , which did not make the Dutch charts at the time. “I can’t get enough Of that West Coast stuff” ( Free In L.A. / Bolland & Bolland) The duo also wrote and produced Presidential Suite by Tiffany (not to b

Pexels Enjoy part 49 of this long lasting Eddy's 80s Grooves series ! One of the representatives of City Pop, Miki Matsubara was quite popular in Japan in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Around 2020 she was rediscovered, because Stay With Me became hugely successful on TikTok. Unfortunately, she did not experience that reappraisal herself, because she died of cancer in 2004. Four years prior she stopped all music activities and disappeared from the spotlight altogether. She burned all her cherished sheet music and records. In an e-mail sent to her cousin at the time, she wrote: "Please forget all the times in the past when I was singing and composing." Next up is a Mixcloud Exclusive for subscribers only, followed by a new Sunshine Radio show for everyone. Tracklist: Chaka Khan – What Cha' Gonna Do For Me (1981) Gary Taylor - Just What I Have In Mind (1983) New Horizons – Your Thing Is Your Thing (1983) Ronnie Jones – You And I (1982) Miki Matsubara – Stay Wit

Pexels Enjoy part 5 of the series sunny breeze from the West Coast : mostly light-hearted pop music influenced by the Californian vibe of the late seventies and early eighties. “Pacific waves take my mind away When the sun sets on the ocean” (California 1 / Con Funk Shun) Like most touring musicians, Al Stewart spent a lot of time in hotel rooms, so it was no surprise that there were two songs about hotels on his album Year Of The Cat : Midas Shadow and Broadway Hotel . About the latter, he told his biographer Neville Judd: "It's a song about trying to understand people who live in hotel rooms, people who are rich and can afford houses but prefer to live in a hotel room. That’s like living with no past, nothing tangible you can attach them to." Next up is part 49 of Eddy's Eighties Grooves ! Tracklist: Niko Bokos – Watchu Doin’ Tonight (2024) Carter & Chanel – Don’t Let Love Go (1981) Homi & Jarvis – Love’s Taken Over (1983) Erik Tagg – Fancy Meeting You