In another lifetime I would be….
Posted: December 12, 2013 Filed under: LOVE, SONGS | Tags: coveting her style, Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton songs, Dolly Parton style, envy, Kenny Rogers, love songs, lust, Sheena Easton, We Got Tonight - Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers live 1985, what's not to love? Leave a commentDolly Parton, but in this clip I can’t decide whether I want to be Kenny or Dolly.
Smells like a one off disco hit
Posted: September 25, 2013 Filed under: ART, SONGS, Theme Songs | Tags: Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West), brilliant songs, disco, Eye of the Tiger - Survivor, Farewell Aunty Jack, favourite songs, funk, Jimmy & The Boys - They Wont Let My Girlfriend (1981), love songs, lovelorn radio songs, My Sharona - The Knack, One Hit Wonder Day, one hit wonders, Racey, Right Said Fred, Running Man, Shaddap You Face - Joe Dolce, tragic 70s and 80s music, tragic music Leave a commentI have tragic taste in music, if a song smells like a bad 70s or 80s hit I will be up on the dance floor from the opening bars. And I don’t mind a ballad that I can murder all alone in the car late at night singing along to a gut-wrenching radio station playing hits for the lovelorn either. In honour of One Hit Wonder Day I present you with my favourites (in no particular order):
The Knack – My Sharona
I’m Too Sexy – Right Said Fred
Eye Of The Tiger – Survivor
Don’t Worry Be Happy – Bobby McFerrin
99 Luftballons – Nena (the German version)
You Get What You Give – The New Radicals
Only For Sheep – The Bureau
Black Betty – Ram Jam
Feelings – Morris Albert
All By Myself – Eric Carmen
Farewell Aunty Jack – Graeme Bond
Ice Ice Baby – Vanilla Ice – thank you for bringing ‘Running Man’ to the masses
Video Killed The Radio Star – The Buggles
Play That Funky Music – Wild Cherry
Benny Hill – Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)
It’s Raining Men – The Weather Girls
Because I Got High – Afroman
Teenage Dirtbag – Wheatus
Rose Garden – Lynn Anderson
Young Hearts Run Free – Candi Staton
Baby Got Back – Sir Mix A Lot
They Wont Let My Girlfriend Talk To Me – Jimmy and The Boys
Lay Your Love On Me – Racey