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Burst Let’s end 2024 joyfully with a disco chart from December 1978! It is the Disco File Top 20 ranked from 20 to 1, according to one of the most popular American music magazines at the time, Record World . Peaches and Herb were known as the sweethearts of soul during the 1960s and had a string of hits, most notably Let’s Fall In Love in 1966. When the hits dried up, they decided to quit the music business. Herb Fame became a police officer, but after a few years he started to record again with Van McCoy and a newly recruited Peaches, Linda Greene. Their first record flopped, but when Herb called his old friend Freddie Perren to help them out, the duo hit the big time. Their first single with Perren, Shake Your Groove Thing , went gold and their follow-up single, Reunited , earned triple platinum status and was nominated for a Grammy Award. Peaches & Herb stopped working together in 1983, after their success had declined. Robin Thicke has already been convicted of copyright infr...

Unsplash Let’s celebrate Christmas on Sunshine Radio !🌲😊 Princess Freesia recently released the single Do You Like It , but a few years back Rudolph came out: "It's a playful and slightly naughty take on the renowned, risqué and raunchy reindeer that is Rudolph, or as Freesia likes to call him, "RUDEolph"!" (Bandcamp) Probably one of the most tragic pop stars that has ever lived is now forgotten Scottish singer Lena Zavaroni. In 1974, at only ten years of age, she was the youngest person in history to have an LP in the top ten of the UK albums chart. Later she starred in her own television series, made numerous TV guest star appearances, and performed on stage. When she got older, she found it difficult to continue her singing career and she lost fun in life. She started to develop anorexia nervosa and became very depressed. Her success at a very young age seemed to hit her back like a boomerang. Following an operation to cure her depression, Zavaroni died a...

Pexels Enjoy this week's Billboard soul chart , ranked from 30 to 1 as a Mixcloud Exclusive ! It is funny to see that Lovely Day by Bill Withers, which is considered a soul classic nowadays, just slowly went to the top of the charts in 1977.  Bill Withers was a slow starter musically anyway. His debut album Just As I Am came out in 1971, when he reached already his mid-thirties. At that time he installed toilets in airplanes as a daytime job. After being in the music business for more than 10 years, Withers became fed up with executives telling him what to do. His last charting LP was Watching You, Watching M e, released in spring 1985. He then kind of retired, although his music became more and more influential. Bill Withers passed away in 2020. Next up is a special episode of Sunshine Radio for all listeners!🌲😊 Tracklist: Rose Royce – Do Your Dance Brothers Johnso n – Runnin’ For Your Love Heatwave – Boogie Nights Gladys Knight & The Pips – Sorry Doesn’t Always Make ...

Unsplash The Smooth Operators (Martijn Soetens and I) play yacht rock songs that you must have heard at least once in your life! We present some real yacht rock classics and yacht rock songs that we think should have been classics. Enjoy! Yacht rock flourished on the radio in the late 1970s, when the video era was just a small dot on the horizon, nothing to be scared of yet. As I wrote earlier, the next decade flashy MTV stars kicked all the yacht rock artists out of office. Only good looking guys who could handle electronics, like Daryl Hall and John Oates were able to compete with British new wave and would survive in the 1980s. Next up is Mixcloud Exclusive , followed by a special episode of Sunshine Radio for all listeners!🌲😊 Tracklist: The Doobie Brothers – It Keeps You Runnin' (1976) Ned Doheny – Guess Who's Looking For Love Again (1979) Randy Crawford – Half Steppin' (1977) Bill Champlin – Fly With Me (1978) Seals & Crofts – Summer Breeze (1972) England ...

Pexels To recreate the early 1980s radio feeling, I chose to play yacht rock tracks and pop hits, mixed with original radio jingles and air checks from the era. Around the mid-eighties ordinary looking guys like Christoper Cross were completely wiped away by glamours pop stars who seemed to be made for MTV, such as Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran and Adam Ant. “The video killed the radio star thing was absolutely true in my case”, Christopher Cross says in the recent HBO documentary about yacht rock. In 1976 American singer and entertainer Donna Lynton moved to the Netherlands, because of her Dutch boyfriend and later husband Charlie. A year later she began to release a few singles, of which Theme From Charlie's Angels became an instant hit. Her version of Marty Balin’s hit Hearts sounds quite reminiscent of Toto’s Africa . Nowadays known as a yacht rock phenomenon, the band Pages was disbanded after their third self-titled album in 1981, due to disappointing record sales. Main membe...