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Unsplash Enjoy this Smooth Sailing part in 80s style with some sophisti-pop, retro wave and jazz-funk! For years I’ve been a huge fan of the New Retro Wave label. It releases new tracks that are heavily inspired by the 1980s. On this cloudcast I chose to play a couple of songs from the label that sounds so fresh as if the 1980s were still there. In the 1970s singer/songwriter and part-time actor Peter Godwin was one half of Metro, the other half was Duncan Browne, known for his hit single The Wild Places . In 1977 they made a very interesting self-titled album, some kind of missing link between glam rock and new wave. After their split Peter Godwin came up with a few superb electro pop songs, together with producer Georg Kajanus (Sailor). Baby’s In The Mountains is from his only full-length album Correspondence, which is available for download and on streaming services only recently. I was smart enough to buy the vinyl album back in the day 😉 Tracklist: All The Damn Vampires Feat.

C-Heads Magazine “Cruising the boulevard in a fancy open car” , as Wendy Waldman sings in Long Hot Summer Nights , that’s the mood of this cloudcast. Feeling the excitement about things to come, experiencing the joy of life, when you drive around with the radio on. According to Bandcamp, Earl McGrath was the ultimate jet setter, an art collector and comic bon vivant who stumbled into the record business between legendary parties in New York and LA. After his death in 2016, some of the demos he had recorded in the seventies were literally found in a closet. Light In The Attic recently put them together on an album for the first time: Earl’s Closet: The Lost Archive of Earl McGrath, 1970​-​1980 . The opening track of this cloudcast, Mark Rodney’s California is one of the tracks. "He's a maniac. He just moved in next door. He'll kill your cat and nail it to the door." (original lyrics for what would later become Maniac , the song for the movie Flashdance ). Enjoy this

Steven Martin When the Sony Walkman was not invented yet, each and every one brought his own music device to the beach to turn it on in public. It resulted in many different sounds from dozens of transistor radios. This cacophony on the beach inspired me to create this episode of Mellow Mellow FM . Enjoy! There are a couple of songs that bridge the gap between disco and new wave in late 1979/early 1980. For instance, Funkytown by Lipps Inc sounds like a disco track, but it has clearly some pop/rock/electro elements as well. Pop Muzik from M and David Bowie's Ashes To Ashes are good examples too, just like Angel Eyes by Roxy Music. It has a funky bass and heavy percussion, which makes it a bit disco, but the cool synthesizer layers put the song right into the 1980s, although it was actually released in the summer of 1979. Tracklist: Seals & Crofts – You’re The Love (1978) The Tufano & Giammarese Band – Kind Of A Drag (1975) The Nielsen Pearson Band – Home (1978) GQ

Enjoy this selection of quiet storm tracks from the seventies ! 😊 In the early 1960s singer Mary Wells became "The Queen of Motown", paving the way for later successes of The Supremes, The Miracles, The Temptations, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, The Four Tops and many more. She had a string of hits, mainly composed by Smokey Robinson, including The One Who Really Loves You , Two Lovers  and the Grammy-nominated You Beat Me To The Punch , all in 1962. My Guy managed to hit the number one spot in mid-1964, at the very height of Beatlemania. A year later, at the peak of her career, she left Motown, because of a disagreement about her contract, which she had signed as a minor. However, her glory days were over, and she could not continue her successful career elsewhere. Although she did not have big hits anymore, she occasionally recorded some very good songs, like Cancel My Subscription in 1974.  Deniece Williams initially sent the songs that were recorded for her debut al

Unsplash In 1970 Linda Hoover, a young singer/songwriter went to New York to make a record with future Steely Dan members Donald Fagen, Walter Becker and Jeff Baxter. Their producer Gary Katz initiated the project. The owner of their record company Roulette was Morris Levy. He was, according to Billboard magazine, "one of the record industry's most controversial and flamboyant players.” He told Linda that he loved her record, but he shelved I Mean To Shine after a dispute over publishing. Eventually the title track was given to Barbra Streisand. Soon afterwards Linda Hoover returned to her native state Florida with two quarter-inch reels of tape made by a friend, dubbed from the master of her album. When you listen to the tracks today, it is unbelievable that it took 52 years to get these taped songs released as an album! I Mean To Shine is the opening track of this cloudcast. The track by Kali Uchis is from the wonderful seventies inspired soundtrack to the movie Minions: