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Unsplash Enjoy part 39 of Eddy's Eighties Grooves ! All tracks are "superfine", to quote the Skool Boyz 😊 Next up is a new Smooth Sailing trip. The Quick were a dance pop duo from England that consisted of vocalist Colin "Col" Campsie and bassist/keyboardist George McFarlane. They originally met in California in 1978, and began working together when they returned to England, taking the name The Quick. Their debut single, Sharks Are Cool, Jets Are Hot , was released in 1979. The following year, the duo's single Hip Shake Jerk became a huge hit in Australia, and their first album, On the Uptake , was quickly released there. Remixed and repackaged as Fascinating Rhythm , the album came out to the rest of the world in 1982, spawning two international hits, Zulu and The Rhythm Of The Jungle . A second LP, International Thing , followed two years later, but it was less successful. McFarlane and Campsie would resurface as the Giant Steps in 1988. Tracklist: Worl...

I tried to capture the sound of the hippie generation in the late 1960s, early 1970s. Its epicentre was without any doubt in California. When the Vietnam War ended in the mid-seventies, the protest movement and its culture faded out. However, the musical legacy that came from this period is a hopeful, peaceful and often joyful sound that is still influential today. No better way to start spring time, if you ask me. :-)  Enjoy this Mixcloud Exclusive , for subscribers only! Next up is a regular part of Eddy's Eighties Grooves . Tracklist: Rotary Connection – Songs (1969) Al Wilson ‎– The Dolphins (1972) Jessie Ware – Remember Where You Are (2020) David Cassidy ‎– How Can I Be Sure (1972) Brewer & Shipley – Dreamin’ In The Shade (1968) Judee Sill – Lady-O (1971) Odyssey – Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love (1972) The Spiral Staircase – More Today Than Yesterday (1968) Dave Grusin – California Montage (1969) Paul Carrack – Groovin’ (2001) The Lovin' Spoonful ‎– Dar...

Pearl Charles For this episode of Mellow Mellow FM , I wanted to stay as close as possible to the piña colada sound of the sunny Californian West Coast. Enjoy this preview of an old-fashioned, virus-free summer, while drinking rum and Coca-Cola, to quote Barry White! 😊 Escape by Rupert Holmes is probably the most archetypal yacht rock song ever, because the genre is basically all about escapism. The lyrics were inspired by a want-ad he read whilst idly scanning the personals one day. He imagined himself answering the ad and built the song on the fantasy that it was his own wife who was bored with him. The chorus originally started with "If you like Humphrey Bogart", which Holmes changed at the last minute, replacing the actor with the name of the first exotic cocktail that came to mind and fit the music. To this day Holmes still does not drink piña coladas himself. After the shine of glam had faded in the mid-seventies, successful British rockers Mud searched for new direct...

The Three Degrees Flying Easy by Donny Hathaway is from his last solo album, Extension Of A Man (1973). It was recorded in the hopes that United Airlines might use it for a national advertising campaign, but they did not.  Donny Hathaway was probably one of the greatest soul singers/musicians of all-time. His career took off in the early 1970s, but it never led to a big breakthrough, mainly because of his mental problems. His desperate situation led to his suicide by jumping of a balcony in 1979, after being  paranoid and delusional during a recording session with Roberta Flack. He has been inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame and won one Grammy Award from four nominations. Hathaway was also posthumously honoured with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Dutch director David Kleijwegt made a wonderful documentary about him called Mister Soul – A Story About Donny Hathaway .  Norman Feels was an underground soul sensation in the 1970s and released two classic albums t...

  Pixabay You may not get turned on, as the Addrisi Brothers suggest, but when you keep 6 feet distance from each other, it is perfectly safe to slow dance on the beach. Enjoy! 😊  Don and Dick Addrisi were part of an acrobatic family, but they chose music as their career. In the 1950s they recorded a series of singles that sounded like the Everly Brothers, from which Cherrystone became a hit in 1959. Then the brothers disappeared from the limelight for more than a decade, concentrating on composing. Their biggest success as a songwriting duo was Never My Love , a hit for The Association in 1967. Inspired by another family act, the Bee Gees, the duo re-invented themselves as a really strong disco and yacht rock act in the 1970s. Their three albums from that period are definitely worth checking out. Slow Dancin’ Don’t Turn Me On reached #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1977. The brothers worked together until Don Addrisi died from pancreatic cancer in 1984.   Uno Esta by...