Billy Ocean - When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going (1985)
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Published January 20th, 2010 in Hasselhoff was big in Germany, MTV and music. 0 Comments
Haddaway - What is Love?
This is a 1993 dance track by the singer Haddaway, popular with club DJs. It later experienced a revival as the song from the Saturday Night Live “Roxbury Guys” sketches, which were later made into the 1998 feature film A Night at the Roxbury.
The song peaked at #2 in the United Kingdom and Germany, but it reached #1 in thirteen other countries, all of them European or Asian. In the United States the song reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #12 in Australia. The song is currently the 62nd best-selling single of all time in Germany, and you could have guessed that it would be in that country as it has Eurodance sound.
Calvin Harris
Published April 19th, 2007 in calvin harris, MTV, ambrand, music and uncategorized. 1 CommentContinuing in my audiorial quest for the sweetest 80s synthesizer sounds this week I have mostly been listening to Calvin Harris. (his myspace page has a flash player with a few tracks)
His name is by now familiar to most thanks to populatity of the debut single “Acceptable in the 80s” which recently reached No 10 on the UK Singles Chart, receiving coverage on the radio and music channels such as MTV.
His next single “The Girls” is scheduled for release at the end of May.
Harris uses an unashamed British accent on his tracks, like a Male Sophie Ellis-Bextor, and this is to be admired as so many singers put on the same American accent. Although Harris does not use the thick Scottish accent perhaps as he could never equal the Proclaimers dualing vocal chords.
Marty Robbins
Published April 19th, 2007 in country and western, MTV, music and uncategorized. 1 CommentThe Who’s 2006 album “Endless Wire” includes a song entitled “God Speaks, of Marty Robbins.” The song’s composer, Pete Townshend, explains that the song is about God’s deciding to create the universe just so he can hear some music, “and most of all, one of his best creations, Marty Robbins.”
Marty Robbins (1925 – 1982) was one of the most popular and successful American country and western singers of his era. For most of his nearly four decade career he was rarely far from the country music charts. Several of his songs also became pop hits. He recorded many pleasing bob-along melodies with a tear in his voice and a smile on his face
Singing the blues
Time goes by
Call me up
Don’t let me hang around
Pretty words
Gossip
Lucky Lucky Someone Else
I can’t quit
At The End of a Long Lonely Day
Devil Woman
El Paso
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Pointer Sisters - Automatic (1984)
Ah the sweet sounds of the synthesizer, but a disspointing video, it looks like there is going to be a robot dance, but it never happens. Continue reading ‘More 80s music’
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