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]

Then:

PATTO "Black And White"]
MY MINE "Hypnotic Tango"
THE TWINS "Love System"
PHIL FEARON AND GALAXY "What Do I Do?"
KENNY JAMES "Gimme A Little Sign" (Brenton Wood cover, I think)
MANUEL DE LEO "Let's Go (Tango)"
SLIP "Mamy Blue"
QUENZO "Break-Out (Don't Leave My Baby)"
THE FLIRTATIONS "Earthquake"
THE ARROWS "Touch Too Much" (also did "I Love Rock 'n' Roll before Joan Jett)
BARRY BLUE "(Dancing On) A Saturday Night"
KENNY "Fancy Pants"
CHRIS SPEDDING "Motor Bikin'" (later did punkier stuff with Vibrators etc., right?)
THE TEEZERS "The Best Part of Breaking Up"
JEFF ALLEN "Good Times"
JOHN ROSALL "I Was Only Dreaming"
SANDY KERR "Thug Rock" (great title!)
STU STEVENS "Cowboy In Paris"
CLUBHOUSE "Medley: Do It Again with Billie Jean" (as in Steely Dan/Michael Jackson!)
RHETTA HUGHES "Angel Man"
CHASE "Back To Funky Town"
THE BROADS "Sing, Sing, Sing" (Gene Krupa cover)
LAFLUER "Boogie Nights" (Heatwave cover)
FRESH FACE "Huevo Dancing"
ESAVU "Breakin' Up"
OTTAWAN "You're OK" (somebody on another thread said the dad or uncle somebody in Daft Punk is in this band!)
DOLLY DOTS "Hela Di Ladi Lo"
CHILLY "Come Let's Go"
BZN "Rockin' The Trolls" (????)
THE PINUPS "New Wave Lover"

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

Ottawan had hits with 'D.I.S.C.O' and 'Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart)'. Not sure if it was before Black Lace (probably).

Kenny has a hit with "The Bump" as well as Fancy Pants.

Not familiar with the others. There was a 'Clubhouse' that did a rave cover of "Light My Fire", but I doubt its the same band.