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:

KINCADE "Jenny, Jenny" (some of his 45s are ickier than other ones.)
DIE FLIPPERS "Hello My Love" (not to be confused with Flipper)
SHUKY & AVIVA "Signorina Concertina"
WOLFGANG "Tingeltangel Boulevard"
SECRET SERVICE "L.A. Goodbye"
PRECIOUS WILSON "We Are On The Race Track"
DORIS D. AND THE PINS "Dance On"
HELEN SCHNEIDER "Shadows Of The Night" (Benatar had a hit with this in 1982, so maybe this is the original? And I guess Helen -- with or without her band The Kick, not credited here -- was basically the Kraut Benatar at the time, if not Branigan?)
RACEY "Shame"
RAH BAND -- "The Crunch" (instrumental, definitely earns its title)
THE DOOLEYS -- "I Think I'm Gonna Fall In Love With You"
DAVID SOUL -- "Silver Lady" (obviously not European. Never gave his music two seconds' thought before, but though this pegs him as just an adequate singer at best, as '70s suburban cokehead-country goes, I kind of like it. Now I'm wondering about his other stuff. He had only one Top 40 in the States -- "Don't Give Up On Us," #1 in 1977. Also, what is the deal with all of the schmaltzy/drowsy '70s pop ballads about airplanes? Were fares just really low then, so people were flying high for the first time, or what? Hit Power has a pretty forgettable one called "Silver Bird" by somebody named TINA RAINFORD. Reminds me that the character on Swingtown with a David Soul mustache, biggest sleazeball swinger on the show, is an airline pilot.)
JOY SARNEY -- "Naughty Naughty Naughty" (post-McCartney music-hall-megaphone weirdness, what?)
T-CONNECTION -- "Do What You Wanna Do" (passable disco-funk tune with an amazing drum break -- some rapper must have sampled that, right?* Whitburn says they never went Top 40 in the States, but had two smaller almost-hits. Group from the Bahamas.)
THE INNER CITY EXPRESS -- "Dance And Shake Your Tambourine"
TINA CHARLES "I Love To Love" (preferable to the version I wrote about on toward the end of that-45s from-Metal Mike thread, since unlike my 45, this one doesn't have a crack all the way through it)
JESSE GREEN "Nice And Slow"
VOYAGE "I Don't Want To Fall In Love Again" (sort of an adult-contemporary dance-AOR pop ballad, but tastier than that description sounds. Presumably this isn't the same Voyage who put out a self-titled geography-disco LP on Marlin in 1977, with titles like "Orient Express," "Scotch Machine," "Bayou Village," and "Latin Odyssey," but I could be wrong.)