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)

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[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

The next several bands I asked about on that ILM thread, for people too busy to click or scroll down:

SEAN TYLA "Breakfast In Marin" (from pub rock band Tyla Gang, who I've also never heard an LP by)
EAST SIDE BAND "Rendesvous"
ARABESQUE "Marigot Bay"
CHRISSY "Mark My Words"
COAST TO COAST "Do The Hucklebuck"
HANK MIZELL "Jungle Rock" (crazy rockabilly about jungle animals -- sound like it's from the '50s)
HELLO "Love Stealer" (also did "New York Groove" that Ace Frehley covered, obviously. Both songs seem to steal the beat of Bohannon's "Disco Stomp"! And somebody sent me a CD-R of their The Glam Rock Singles Collection which I haven't listened to yet, so I guess I can knock them off the list soon.)
5000 VOLTS "Doctor Kiss-Kiss"
JOHNY WAKELIN "In Zaire" (Hit in U.S. only with "Black Superman - Muhammad Ali; this was apparently the followup, about Ali's Bungle in the Jungle vs. George Foreman. "African Man," not about boxing, shows up on a different compilation.)
HEAVY METAL KIDS "She's No Angel" (Lots of songs on these samplers. My favorite so far is "Chelsea Kids.")
CHAMPAGNE "Rock N Roll Star"
SAILOR "Stiletto Heels" (Less artsy version of Roxy Music? Can't believe I've never checked these guys out. Another comp has their "A Glass of Champagne")
HARPO "Rock 'N Roll Clown"

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the singer from heavy metal kids DID become an actor, he was wayne in auf weidersehen pet

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

damnit, hank mizell gets a mention in a song by someone else that is on the tip of my tongue but i have to run to a meeting now...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

hmmm, is it "hello" by the beloved? i guess they needed something to rhyme with Kym Mazelle?