This Week's Lost '80s Classic

[listenerwants2know]

Oct 23, 2024 18:34:02 GMT -5 jlthorpe said:

Miquel Brown's "So Many Men, So Little Time", an influential song in the hi-NRG dance music genre, was holding at its #107 peak on the Bubbling Under chart for October 22, 1983. It went to #2 on Billboard's Dance/Disco Top 80 chart.

Canadian-born Miquel Brown actually has the male first name Michael and was often mistaken for a man due to her fashionable short haircut.

To counteract this in the 1970s, Brown adopted the stage name Miquel and from then on wore a female hairstyle. Miquel Brown would probably have remained a rather unknown singer had she not sung the song "So Many Men, So Little Time" in May 1983.

Her daughter Sinitta was and is often featured in the British tabloid press because of her musical success and her very good looks. At the end of the 1980s, the artist, who was at the height of her success, attracted attention through a relationship with the up-and-coming actor and later Hollywood mega-star Brad Pitt. The two met at a party in London and were considered a couple for two years. However, it is more likely to be a rumor that the successful title "Toy Boy" was for Brad Pitt.

Here is Sinitta with "Cross My Broken Heart":

[dth1971]

Nov 3, 2024 11:20:47 GMT -5 listenerwants2know said:

Oct 23, 2024 18:34:02 GMT -5 jlthorpe said:

Miquel Brown's "So Many Men, So Little Time", an influential song in the hi-NRG dance music genre, was holding at its #107 peak on the Bubbling Under chart for October 22, 1983. It went to #2 on Billboard's Dance/Disco Top 80 chart.

Canadian-born Miquel Brown actually has the male first name Michael and was often mistaken for a man due to her fashionable short haircut.

To counteract this in the 1970s, Brown adopted the stage name Miquel and from then on wore a female hairstyle. Miquel Brown would probably have remained a rather unknown singer had she not sung the song "So Many Men, So Little Time" in May 1983.

Her daughter Sinitta was and is often featured in the British tabloid press because of her musical success and her very good looks. At the end of the 1980s, the artist, who was at the height of her success, attracted attention through a relationship with the up-and-coming actor and later Hollywood mega-star Brad Pitt. The two met at a party in London and were considered a couple for two years. However, it is more likely to be a rumor that the successful title "Toy Boy" was for Brad Pitt.

Here is Sinitta with "Cross My Broken Heart":

Sinitta is a niece of Ami "Knock on Wood" Stewart. Sinitta even had a minor Billboard Hot 100 hit in late Summer/early Fall 1989 with her cover of Maxine Nightengale's song "Right Back Where We Started From": 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2RXgHfqYx0

[jlthorpe]

Giorgio Moroder and The Human League's Philip Oakey teamed up for "Together in Electric Dreams", a song from the soundtrack to the film Electric Dreams. This week in 1984, the song climbed from #21 to its peak of #20 on the Hot Dance/Disco chart.

[jlthorpe]

Originally recorded by Hank Ballard, "Look at Little Sister" hit the Top Rock Tracks chart in a version by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. For the week ending November 9, 1985, it dropped from its peak of #17 down to #21.

[dth1971]

With the 2024 Christmas holiday season coming up, here's a Lost 1980's Classic Christmas song chosen by me: Taken from the "Twisted Christmas" album from 1987 here are the Bob Rivers Comedy Corp with their take on the "Twelve Days of Christmas" called "The Twelve Pains of Christmas":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_WMemdeizo

[OldSchoolAT40Fan]

That song "Cross My Broken Heart" by Sinitta, was that song remade by The Jets or was that song a remake of The Jets' version?

As for "The 12 Pains of Christmas", I had no problem with it in the 1990s, but nowadays I hate it because the female voice that says "Batteries not included" serves as a bad reminder of personal problems I had with someone whose voice sounded almost identical (thankfully, the problems were eventually resolved with no consequence, and the problems had nothing to do with her voice).

[dth1971]

Nov 12, 2024 7:18:28 GMT -5 OldSchoolAT40Fan said:

That song "Cross My Broken Heart" by Sinitta, was that song remade by The Jets or was that song a remake of The Jets' version?

As for "The 12 Pains of Christmas", I had no problem with it in the 1990s, but nowadays I hate it because the female voice that says "Batteries not included" serves as a bad reminder of personal problems I had with someone whose voice sounded almost identical (thankfully, the problems were eventually resolved with no consequence, and the problems had nothing to do with her voice).

No, "Cross My Broken Heart" by Sinitta was not the Jets song.

[jlthorpe]

At #109 on the Bubbling Under chart for November 13, 1982 was "He Was Really Sayin' Somethin'" by Bananarama, a cover of a song The Velvelettes took to #64 on the Hot 100 in 1965. With backing by fellow Brits Fun Boy Three, Bananarama's version reached #108 the week of Christmas.



This wasn't the two groups' only collaboration. Earlier in 1982, The Fun Boy Three with Bananarama recorded a cover of the jazz song "It Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)", which reached #49 on Billboard's dance chart that year.

[jlthorpe]

Comedian Sam Kinison debuted at #38 on the November 19, 1988 Album Rock Tracks chart with his interpretation of The Troggs' "Wild Thing", ultimately taking the song to #18. In addition to the many rock star cameos in the video are appearances by fellow comic Rodney Dangerfield and Jessica Hahn as the titular wild thing.