Sounds like a rip off of Hazel O'connor

Whistle - Just Buggin'

From back when rap was great.

It was performed by Abigail Mead and Nigel Goulding and taken from the "Full Metal Jacket" movie soundtrack from 1987-ish.
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Does anybody remember

MEL BROOKS- "It's Good to be the King" (1980)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYeop...eature=related

Was this from one of his films? I don't remember hearing it on british radio but it was often played on RTE, Sunshine and Nova in Dublin.

just had a brainworm, Crash - The Primitives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JVmV...eature=related

Great track from The Primitives

An early 80's disco gem , not heard it for ages

Hi - Gloss - You'll Never Know


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1IMY...eature=related

Some great tracks on this thread! Here's one of my favourites:

Big Sound Authority - This House

If you enjoyed Hi Gloss, I hope you like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elLBEwi9PUE
France Joli - "Gonna Get Over You" (1981)
I don't remember this in 1981 and first heard it on a french radio station a few years ago.
This must have been one of the last records featuring brass and string sections, before synthesisers took over.

Bloody hell. Watching that I wasn't sure I remembered it, but as soon as the chorus kicked in, I was 15 again! Thanks.

a number 1 from 1980 (I think ) Fern Kinney - Together We Are Beautiful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWHe2eDh-ro

It was based on a sketch in The History of the World Part 1...Brooks had a top 20 hit with To be or not to be (from his remake of the 40s movie)

A few more:

Furniture - Brilliant Mind
Aztec Camera - Oblivious
Thompson Twins - In the name of love
Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny Shiny

What, no Polnareff in this thread yet?

Michel Polnareff - Goodbye Marylou

A no 1 in the Netherlands in 1990, the remix by Milk and Sugar is storming the European charts right now...

Vaya Con Dios – Nah Neh Nah

Time for some Clash. From 1981 did not even make the top 50

The Clash ; Hitsville UK


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVKC5YE85Ks

That made my brain hurt.
This one is a bit more "normal" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWa3o...eature=related

One of my favourite bands of all time , China Crisis, this single was so good it was hard for anything else to live up to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ea0Q...eature=related

LOVED this. Bought it as soon as it came out and saw them support Simple Minds in 1983. I think I bought every album after that. Great band.

The Homecoming Queen's got a gun! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nonVj7odbmU

And everyone still wonders what that line is." life is a fever?" etc.

"Ooh, this is quite good; who is it?" I thought, as I watched The Chart Show. Oh, 'They Might Be Giants', apparently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvOVMxOTwqw

Now your both talkin

This is soul Disco track from 1982-Raw Silk-Do it To the Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezw2b0uuz_o

The video is from TOTP in 1982,when it was fun and used to get 10 million plus viewers before Fame which was on at 8.10
Fame being what Glee has basically ripped off.

Speaking of which:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwEvOQ4HXB4

and a bit of rap-from Kurtis Blow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq-jANkqpQo

Will Smith ripped this track off big time on the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

Sue Wilkinson - You gotta be a hustler if you want to get on

Tom Tom Club - Genius of love

Grace Jones - Slave to the rhythm

Thomas Dolby - She blinded me with science

Linx - Intuition

Midnight Star - Headlines

Mai Tai - History

a few more faves :

Revelutionary Spirit - The Wild Swans (later some became The Lotus Eaters)

First Picture of You - Lotus Eaters

Sweetest Smile - Black

Ask the lord - Hipsway

Homosapien - Pete Shelley. (12" is one of the best 12" singles ever and a new dubstep remix would really suite it)

I much preferred this over the better known 'Wonderful Life'.

Sophia George - Girle Girlie

Smiley Culture - Police Officer

Sisters of Mercy - Dominion and This Corrosion

Art of Noise - Beatbox

Prefab Sprout - Faron Young