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

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Then:

DSCHINGIS KHAN "Dschingis Khan" (More superstars, I'm concluding. Boney M wannabees, maybe? Or maybe not. Have heard a few other tracks, usually awesome.)
TONY MARSHALL "Ich Klau Dir Eine Strassenbahn" (Actually an "esset" character, untypable on my keyboard, instead of those two s's in Strassenbahn)
FRANK ZANDER "Captain Starlight"
BERNHARD BRINK "Frei Und Abgebrannt (How Could This Go Wrong)"
SUNNY SINGERS "Moskau" (Dschinghis Khan cover!)
CAR MEN "El Lute" (Instrumental Boney M cover!)
BOYS TOWN GANG "When Will I See You Again" (Three Degrees cover by gay-bar stars who get flamier in the "Cruisin' The Street" 12-inch I've got by them)
ROBEY "One Night In Bangkok" (Murray Head cover!)
NATASCHA KING "On Ice"
MAN PARRISH & FREEZE FORCE "Boogie Down" (Man Parrish has other great singles too, obviously)
PAUL HARDCASTLE "Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag" (Pigbag cover!! By the "19" and "Rain Forest" guy)
ROCKERS REVENGE "Walking On Sunshine" (isn't the more famous version of this by some band called Central Line? Or was that a different song?)
MAJOR HARRIS "All My Life"
STEVE HARVEY "Tonight (Francois Mix)"
STREET ANGELS "Dressing Up"
HOT STREAK "Body Work"
MONYAKA "Go Deh Yaka"
BOOKER NEWBERRY "Love Town"
RUMPLE-STILT-SKIN "I Think I Want To Dance With You"

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

The big hit with 'Walking On Sunshine' was by Katrina & The Waves.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I think that's a different song w/ same title

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, completely different song. (And the Katrina & the Waves one was actually initially done -- or at least written, I've never heard his version -- by Kimberly Rew of the Soft Boys.) Thing is, turns out the Central Line one I mention is yet *another* different song; with a different title: "Walking *Into* Sunshine." The Rockers Revenge one is apparently an Eddy Grant cover!

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

DSCHINGIS KHAN are best known for their Eurovision appearance; they are well worth watching in youtube, which just doubles the awesomeness

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

hmmm, "papa's got a brand new pigbag" is usually credited to "pigbag" rather than paul hardcastle (although clearly it could be him, but i've never heard it mentioned before).

the pigbag version was retooled in the late 90s by "perfecto allstarz", ie paul oakenfold (the paul hardcastle of his day?)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wPZwvuqOzSE

and more recently, due to it's overuse in adverts and for goal celebrations at football (a dreadful idea we seem to have imported), it has also become a terrace chant when an opposing player does something rubbish, viz:

DUH DUH DUHDUH
FVCKING USELESS!
DUH DUH DUHDUH
FVCKING USELESS!

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Not sure I understand the first part of this comment (though the rest is certainly amusing) -- why would Paul Hardcastle's cover of a Pigbag song still be credited to Pigbag?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

ah yes, sorry, my misreading of your original post, i thought you were saying the pigbag and paul hardcastle were the same version.

must learn to read properly...