Bands Who Have Excellent Songs On Late '70s/Early '80s European K-Tel-Style Compilations

[koganbot]

I Have Never Heard Entire Albums By These Bands Who Have Excellent Songs On Late '70s/Early '80s European K-Tel-Style Compilations

Do any of them have albums worth hearing? The world wants to know, or at least I do.

The "I" who's saying this is chuckeddy. He has a feeling some folks on poptimists might be interested in this and might have input for it too, either there or here. The thread starts with these two compilations, but there are many more lists, contributed by Xhuxk and others, and quite a few YouTube imbeds:

Double Dancing (Record 2) (K-Tel Finland 1983)

GARY LOW "I Want You"
FREEZ "Pop Goes My Love" (have only otherwise heard his/their electro-hop classic "I.O.U." before)
STYLE "Dark Eyes"
BLACK LACE "Superman" (talked dance steps, sounds like an English version of Claudio Chechetto's Italian early '80s "Gioca-Jouer," or maybe the other way around)
CAROLA HĂGGVIST "Hunger"
DAVID GRANT "Love Will Find A Way" (Linx-style early '80s Brit soul I guess?)

― xhuxk, Sunday, 11 January 2009 16:59 (2 days ago) Permalink

Disco Fever (K-Tel U.K. 1977)

BROTHERHOOD OF MAN "Angelo" (Second-tier ABBAs, right?)
MERI WILSON "Telephone Man" (top 20 hit in U.S.!)
SMOKIE "It's Your Life" (superstars in this world, I guess. Lots of hits on lots of these compilations; "Living Next Door To Alice" was their only U.S. top 40)

Comments

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

they also released a version of "the birdie song" about 0.00002 seconds after "the tweets" and thus didn't have a hit with it.

i have a very very strange relationship to the music of Black Lace and I'm not sure i have time right now to go into it in any depth, but it involves british holiday camps that were third rate butlinses (most with trailers rather than chalets) and being aged between 8 and 10. suffice it to say that my sister and i learnt an entirely different dance to agadoo at least three months before it charted in the UK

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

They weren't 'Haven' holiday camps by any chance? I went to one of those at about the same age (and probably danced to many of the same records!)

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

haven and hoseasons and other random indie ones as well, yes, never pontins though, too common.

[quick glance at DoB] dude, i was doing this when these records were HOT OFF THE PRESSES, not ten years later ;)

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw that you mentioned dancing to 'Agadoo' before it was a hit, making you presumably somewhere between 5 and 10 years older than me.