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C-Heads Magazine You all know that I love that late seventies/early eighties smooth West Coast sound. Today’s music scene still counts quite a few modern day yacht rock and AOR acts. I selected some of the best 2022 songs to close the year. Enjoy! Next week I will upload a new episode of the disco years . Tracklist: Prep – The Kid Say She She – Wrap Myself Up In Your Love Heir – One Way Out Kids Return – Lost In Los Angeles Meeka Kates – Laredo SuperGOODThings – Hottie & The Yachty Charles Watson ‎Feat. Pearl Charles – Figure Skater Bad Colours – Maybe I Should Move To L.A. James Wyatt Crosby – Is There A Reason Dawn Patrol – Nostalgia Thundercat – Fly Like An Eagle Lo Van Gorp – The Right Time Al Costelloe – California State Cows – Streets Of Stockholm Work Drugs – Slow Fade Mitch Davis – Bear The Cold Mamas Gun – Good Love Emma Noble & Nick Corbin ‎– Back On Track Leonard Luka – Elly Joel Sarakula – Sun Goes Down Paul Bender – Summer Fool

Pexels To be honest, I have never been a holiday person, just like Kadhja Bonet: "I started making a playlist of all my favourite holiday songs and deep cuts to at least feel like I had some control over the celebration, and then I felt it was a shame to not appreciate good songs just because I can't get behind the commercialism of Christmas." (Bandcamp) Jeremy Spencer was an early member of Fleetwood Mac. He replaced guitarist Peter Green for a 1971 world tour, but after he had gone to a book store, he never returned… Five days later, police traced him to the headquarters of a Christian sect called the Children of God, which Spencer had apparently joined after being approached on the street. A few years later he began to record again and made Flee , one of the best yacht rock albums of the 1970s. Fanny (Be Tender With My Love) by the Bee Gees was originally on Main Course that came out in 1975. It was the third single release (after Jive Talkin' and Nights On Bro...

Pexels All aboard, we are on our way to eighties land! One of the artists on board, or should I say one of the passengers on the night train, is Steve Strange, singer and co-founder of electro band Visage. He was one of the key figures of the New Romantics/Blitz movement in the early eighties, together with Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Culture Club and Ultravox. They were young musicians who not only wanted to make good music, but who wanted to look good as well. They brought some light in those dark days of economic crises and right-wing governments. Strange died of a heart attack in Egypt on the 12th of February 2015, after years of struggling with his health and a heroin addiction. “Flaunt the Imperfection is the one album where China Crisis got the balance right.” (Allmusic) Tracklist: Jeannine Otis & Heikki Sarmanto – Magic Song (1980) China Crisis – King In A Catholic Style (Wake Up) (1985) Pressyes – Merissa (2022) Butter Bath – Kurrajong Hotel (2022) ABC – Ocean Blue (...

Pexels We all need some sunshine in these dark days of winter, don’t we? That’s why I put together this mix from the parts that I made for the Sunshine 70s series that was created by Smooth Operator Martijn Soetens a couple of years ago. The show was broadcasted on KX Classics, a channel founded by Dutch radio-DJ and TV-presenter Rob Stenders. This tribute to Sunshine 70s is the first part of a new series, called Sunshine Radio . The next episode will be something completely different 😊 Frontman of Raydio, Ray Parker Jr. composed many great songs, but early in his career he wrote You Make Me Feel Like Dancing for Leo Sayer. Unfortunately producer Freddie Perren did not give him the credits, because Ray Parker Jr. had given him a tape without his name on it. Until this day he did not receive a penny for the song that went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976. When the glam rock years had come to an end for British band Mud, the four members started to search for new directions. The...

Martijn Soetens The opening of Studio 54, the start of electronic dance music ( I Feel Love by Donna Summer) and the huge sales figures of the soundtrack to the movie Saturday Night Fever gave disco the boost it needed to become the most popular genre in 1977. C.J. & Co. were a so-called proto disco group from Detroit. The act was created by producer Mike Theodore and Motown guitarist Dennis Coffey, who played on many classics like Cloud Nine by The Temptations and War by Edwin Starr. Coffey also worked with Del Shannon and wrote the soundtrack to the movie Black Belt Jones . Enjoy this new part of the series the disco years ! Tracklist: Peter Brown & Betty Wright – Dance With Me [Album Version] The Mike Theodore Orchestra – The Bull Donna Summer – I Love You Brooklyn Dreams – Music, Harmony And Rhythm Archie Bell & The Drells – Old People Rokotto – Boogie On Up Caress – I Can't Let You Walk Away C.J. & Co . – Get A Groove In Order To Move Bill Brandon –...