Kyle - Let's Get Away From Here (1986)

Artist:  Kyle
Song:  Let's Get Away From Here (3:27)
Release:  1986
Label:  Polydor
Genre:  Pop, Soul
Producer:  Richard de Bois
Written-By:   Freddy Heineken, Pamela Phillips-Oland, Vincent Falcone



Kyle (Boynton) is a singer/dancer, who´s been working in holland for a few years in the mid eighties. His debut release single ´Let´s Get Away From Here´ (a smooth soul/pop song), never made the Top-40.

Radio Java - Fool (1984)

Artist:  Radio Java
Song:  Fool (4:02)
Release: 1984
Label:  Carrere
Genre:  Synthpop
Producer:  Tony Clark




Radio Java formed in the first half of the eighties. Comprising Tony Moore, Steve Price and Johnny Sequins, they started gigging all over London until they signed to Carrere Records. They recorded their debut album "Some Of The parts" at Abbey Road Studios in London. A Dutch DJ bought a copy of their second single 'Fool', (a beautiful orchestral ballad(, and started to play it on Dutch radio. The group flew over to promote the song on Dutch TV, but despite an appearance in the Dutch Tipparade (the 'bubbling under' singles chart), it didn't become a hit.

The S.O.S. Band - Tell Me If You Still Care (1983)

The S.O.S. Band is an American musical ensemble, founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 1977. Originally known as Santa Monica, the 'SOS' initialism in the band's name stands for Sounds of Success.
The band, fronted by Mary Davis, was initially famous for the hit "Take Your Time (Do It Right)" in 1980. In 1983, they joined forces with then new production team of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, who went on to craft a string of R&B hits for the group, including "Just Be Good to Me" and "Tell Me If You Still Care", from their fourth album "On The Rise" in 1983.
The Jam-Lewis-produced S.O.S. Band hits, are notable for popularizing the use of the Roland TR-808 drum machine (and its distinctive cowbell sound) in popular music.

Artist:  The S.O.S. Band
Song:  Tell Me If You Still Care (5:01)
Release:  1983
Label:  Tabu Records
Genre:  Soul, Funk
Producer:  Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
Written-By:  J. Harris III, Terry Lewis

Donald Fagen - New Frontier (1982)

Donald Fagen is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the co-founder, lead singer, and the principal songwriter of the rock band Steely Dan, along with partner Walter Becker.
After Steely Dan's breakup in 1981, Fagen released his critically acclaimed solo debut album, "The Nightfly", in October 1982. Its premiere single was "I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)". The follow-up single, "New Frontier" was aided by a popular MTV music video.
Donald Fagen's connective thread on the Nightfly is futurist nostalgia for the "New Frontier" as anticipated from the prosperous vantage point of late-'50s America. This track features the amazing bass work of Abe Laboriel. Transcription by Lionel Gibaudan.

Artist:  Donald Fagen
Song:  New Frontier (6:21)
Release:  1982
Label:  Warner Bros. Records – 7-29792
Genre:   Pop, Fusion
Producer:   Gary Katz
Mastered:   By Steve Smart
Written-By:   Donald Fagen

Johnny Bristol - Take Me There (1981)

Artist:  Johnny Bristol
Title:  Take Me Down (4:10)
Year:  1981
Label:  Hansa International
Released:  1981
Genre:  Soul
Producer:  Gus Dudgeon
Written-By:  J.P.  Pennington, M. Gray



Johnny Bristol was an American musician, most famous as a songwriter and record producer for the Motown label in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was a native of Morganton, North Carolina. Performed in duo, Johnny & Jackey in the late 50´s.
In the mid 1960s, Motown had absorbed Tri-Phi and Bristol began working with Fuqua as a songwriter and producer.
Bristol left Motown in 1973 to join CBS as a producer. Johnny Bristol's main market was in Europe by the early 1980s.
A deal for Ariola/Hansa saw him score with club hits "Love No Longer Has a Hold on Me" and "Take Me Down".

Blondie - Rapture (1981)

Artist:   Blondie
Title:   Rapture
Year:   1981
Genre:   Disco, Rap
Label:   Chrysalis
Producer:   Mike Chapman





"Rapture" is a single by the American new wave band Blondie. It was released in January 1981 and was the second and final song to be released from the band's 1980 top 10 album "Autoamerican".
"Rapture" is a combination of new wave, disco, jazz, pop, and rap music, with the rap section forming an extended coda. While it was not the first single featuring rapping to be commercially successful, it was the first to top the charts. Its lyrics include references to hip-hop pioneers Fab Five Freddy and Grandmaster Flash.

Super Jones - Neon Light (1979)

Superjones, een band uit Utrecht (1978-1981).
Bezetting: Geert Jan Westenbrink (zang) (ex-Da Capo), Han Bavinck (sologitaar) (ex-Carlsberg), Anthonie de Bruine (gitaar), Stephan Wienjus (basgitaar), Hans Boosman (ex-Jenner Band) (drums) Stephan Wienjus ging naar Ferdy Lancee en Het Goede Doel. Hans Boosman ging naar Het Goede Doel. Geert Jan Westenbrink ging naar Jan Rot's Ratata en Mazy Lane Mazy Lane-Asian.

Artist:   Superjones
Title:   Neon Lights (3:45)
Year:   1979
Label:   EMI
Genre:   Pop
Producer:   Paul Post
Written-By:   Han Bavinck
Engineer:   Michael Beekman

Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder - Pops, We Love You (1978)

Artist:   Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder
Title:   Pops, We Love You (3:59)
Year:   1978
Label:   Motown Records
Genre:   Soul
Produced:   Pam Sawyer, Marilyn Mcleod
Written by:   Pam Sawyer, Marilyn Mcleod

"Pops, We Love You (A Tribute to Father)" is a 1978 single recorded and released by Motown stars Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder, issued as a tribute to the late Berry "Pops" Gordy, Sr., father of Motown founder Berry Gordy, who had died that year after a long battle with cancer.

Manfred Mann´s Earth Band - California (1977)

Manfred Mann's Earth Band is a British progressive rock group formed in 1971 by Manfred Mann.
Having started in the 1960s with a British band that had such hits as "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" and "The Mighty Quinn", then moving on to Jazz Fusion with Manfred Mann's Chapter Three, Manfred's third band, "The Earth Band' is still alive and recording.
From their 1978 album "Watch" the single ´California` a beautiful rock ballad.

Artist:   Manfred Mann´s Earth Band
Title:   California (3:40)
Year:   1977
Label:   Bronze Records
Genre:   Progressive Rock
Producer:   Manfred Mann´s Earth Band
Written by:   Sue Vickers

Steely Dan - Haitian Divorce (1976)

Steely Dan is an American rock band: members are Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The band's popularity peaked in the late 1970s, with the blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop.Rolling Stone has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies. `Haitian Divorce' (not released as a single in the US), does have slight reggae overtones and reggae music hasn't got commercial appeal in the USA in the way it has in Britain. It just didn't occur to anyone to release it over here." The excellent guitar work being the main sales angle coupled with Fagen's unusual nasal vocalizing. But what does it all mean? Well, the first few verses are plain enough. Babs and Clean Willy get married, right? But things don't work out somehow, and off they go to Haiti to grab themselves a quickie divorce. Then Babs heads off to some sleazy night club to drown her sorrows. Fagen takes up the story: "If you've been paying attention, you'll know she's in a drugged stupor by now and probably doesn't know anything about it. She is later... er... impregnated by this exotic gentleman. Later she is reunited with Clean Willy and they have some rather bizarre offspring ("Who's this kinky so-and-so")." And then the chorus marks a second expedient divorce. Fascinating stuff, and not the only interesting angle on the record. The guitar soloing was in fact performed by "two" musicians. "Yes, it was done in quite an unusual way. Dean Parks played the actual notes but Walter Becker altered the sound by using a voice bag." (One of those things Peter Frampton is always sticking in his mouth.)

Artist:   Steely Dan
Title:   Haitian Divorce
Year:   1976
Label:   ABC Records
Genre:   Rock, Reggae, Fusion
Producer:   Gary Katz
Written-By:   Donald Fagen, Walter Becker

Gene Pitney - Train Of Thought (1975)

Artist:   Gene Pitney
Title:   Train Of Thought
Year:  1975
Label:   Bronze Records
Genre:   Pop
Produced by:   David Mackay
Arranged by:   David Mackay
Written by:   Alan O´Day



Gene Pitney was an American singer-songwriter, musician and sound engineer. Through the mid-1960s, he enjoyed success as a recording artist on both sides of the Atlantic and was among the group of early 1960s American acts who continued to enjoy hits after the British Invasion.
Pitney maintained a successful career in Britain and the rest of Europe into the 1970s, appearing regularly on UK charts as late as 1974. One of his last albums was "Pitney ´75"
with the single "Train Of Thought". It never made it to the charts.

Dan Fogelberg - Part Of The Plan (1975)

Artist:   Dan Fogelberg
Title:   Part Of The Plan
Year:   1975
Label:   Epic
Genre:   Rock
Producer:   Joe Walsh
Written-By:   Dan Fogelberg




Dan Fogelberg was an American singer-songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, whose music was inspired by sources as diverse as folk, pop, rock, classical, jazz, and bluegrass music.
On his second album "Souvenirs", Dan Fogelberg expanded slightly on his sparse, countrified folk sound, adding a distinctively more pop feel, thanks to help from producer Joe Walsh. "Part of the Plan," a buoyant, radio-friendly pop hit that brought Fogelberg to a larger audience and, at the time, easily placed him alongside such California hitmakers as Joni Mitchell, the Eagles, and Jackson Browne.

The Shoes - Face To Face (1974)

Artist:  The Shoes
Title:  Face To Face (3:36)
Year:  1974
Label:  Negram
Genre:  Pop
Written-By:  Henk Versteegen, Jan Versteegen





In de tweede helft van de jaren '60 zeer succesvolle beatgroep uit Zoeterwoude, een klein dorp onder de rook van Leiden, waarvan de zwarte stem van Theo van Es het groepsgeluid voorziet van een opvallende dosis soul. The Shoes scoren tussen 1966 en 1975 vijftien grote hits.
In 1974 verschijnt de elpee "Make Up Your Make-Up". Er worden drie singles van het album getrokken die redelijk scoren: Up and Down, Make Up Your Make-Up en Face To Face wat nummer 12 bereikte in de Top-40 in 1974. De bandleden hebben hun gedateerde beatimage omgeruild voor een hippe glamrock-variant en presenteren zich als heuse glitterboys.

Judge Dread - Big Six (1972)

Artist:  Judge Dread
Song:   Big Six (2:59)
Year:  1972
Label:   Trojan Records
Genre:   Reggae
Written-By:  Alex Hughes, Ernest Ranglin





Real Name: Alexander Minto Hughes
Profile: Born 1945 in Kent/England, ska and reggae vocalist Judge Dread was the first white musician to score a reggae chart hit in Jamaica. He is especially famous for his humorous sexually explicit lyrics, and holds a record in the Guinnes Book as the artist with the most songs banned from BBC airplay. In 1998, Judge Dread died on stage during a concert in Canterbury, suffering a heart attack.
Notably lived in Snodland, Kent where he once changed the street sign to Dreadland.
The song "Big Six" (1972) reached UK Singles Chart # 11.

The Duke Of Burlington - Indian Fig (1972)

The Duke Of Burlington (also: named The Marquis of Kensington), was a British studio project from the end of the 1960s. It consisted of Robert Wace, then manager of The Kinks, and the record producer Mike Leander. While the project's vocals are Wace's, Leander was featured on the single covers. Wace wanted to remain incognito. Their song "Flash" was a famous sports tune back in 1970 and hit the charts.
The single "Indian Pig" only made it to the Dutch Tipparade in 1972.

Artist:   The Duke Of Burlington
Song:   Indian Fig (2:40)
Year:   1972
Label:   Pink Elephant
Genre:   Disco, Instrumental
Producer:   Sergio Balloni
Written-By:   Lumni

The Beatles - All Together Now (1969)

"All Together Now" is a song by The Beatles written primarily by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The song was recorded during the band's Magical Mystery Tour period, but remained unreleased until it was included on the "Yellow Submarine EP" in 1969. It reached in 1972, nr. 19 in the Dutch Top-40. Paul McCartney described the song as a children's sing-along with the title phrase inspired by the music hall tradition of asking the audience to join in. He also described a "subcurrent" in the song, a dual-meaning where "we are all together now." "All Together Now" has been covered by various artists. Versions intended for children have been released by the Sugarbeats, The Bingo Kids and a German group, Joy Unlimited, did a heavy funk-rock ("an oddball obscure Beatles' cover").
The Muppets covered the song as the final track for their 1994 album Kermit Unpigged.

Artist:   The Beatles
Song:   All Together Now (2:13)
Year:  1969
Label:   Apple
Genre:   Pop, Skiffle
Written by:   Lennon-McCartney
Producer:   George Martin

Fleetwood Mac - Jewel Eyed Judy (1971)

Artist:   Fleetwood Mac
Song:   Jewel Eyed Judy (3:15)
Label:   Reprise Records
Genre:   Blues, Rock
Written by:   Danny Kirwan, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie






Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band formed in 1967 in London.
The member present in the band is its eponymous drummer, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie (from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers), Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan and The keyboardist, Christine McVie, has, to date, appeared on all but two albums, either as a member or as a session musician. She also supplied the artwork for the album "Kiln House" (1970) were the song "Jewel Eyed Judy" was taken from.

Jimmy Cliff - Vietnam (1970)

Artist:  Jimmy Cliff
Song:  Vietnam (3:53)
Year:  1970
Genre:  Reggae
Producer:  Larry Fallon, Leslie Kong
Written-By:  Jimmy Cliff





Jimmy Cliff is a Jamaican musician, singer and actor. He is the only currently living musician to hold the Order of Merit, the highest honour that can be granted by the Jamaican government for achievement in the arts and sciences. He is best known among mainstream audiences for songs such as "Sitting in Limbo," "You Can Get It If You Really Want," and "Many Rivers to Cross" from the soundtrack to The Harder They Come, which helped popularize reggae across the world; and his covers of Cat Stevens' "Wild World" and Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now" from the film Cool Runnings. The song "Vietnam" in 1970, according to Bob Dylan is the best protest song he had ever heard.