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

In which yr correspondent tries to shake 'I Am The Music Man' out of her head

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I have listened to Black Lace's Greatest Hits more times than is strictly necessary. This is entirely the fault of my schoolchum Kirst whose favourite bands when we were in 6th form were: Steps, Black Lace, ABBA - and the Manic Street Preachers (especially Gold Against The Soul). Pia-pia-piano, piano, piano. ARGH.

Re: In which yr correspondent tries to shake 'I Am The Music Man' out of her head

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

The gay club I used to go to in Folkestone when I was 17 (oh lucky me) used to close every week with "Gang Bang". I'm not sure whether the DJ liked it or was just using it to clear the dancefloor.