Anyway, as this kid is wailing on the bells, a couple of pop songs popped into my mind. Here's one of them. Perhaps they are best known for backing Captain Sensible on a couple of smash hits, but Dolly Mixture was a female trio I knew from their short time on Paul Weller's Respond label. In fact, the "Been-Teen" single was the very first release. This is RESP 4, released in 1982, and I hope you like your bells. This makes the fourth Respond act featured here in the last couple of years. A Craze, Tracie and the Questions were the others. Can Vaughan Toulouse be far away?
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I'm unfamiliar with the song, but it holds up very well and doesn't sound dated at all. Great bells too.
Completely agree, Swede. Pop with just a hint of post-punk. Different than the sophisti-pop sound Respond would come to be known for a little later.
Bring on Vaughn Toulouse...his very interesting career deserves some column inches! As a Weller fan, I bought quite a few Respond singles, I have Everything and more, a number of The Questions singles and Tracie as well as Mr. Toulouse.
Echorich, I had a feeling you were going to say that about VT. Let me put it another way. I knew you would be the only person who would give me a nudge.
New to me Brian but I rather liked it, a morning song if ever I heard one.
Liked it too. Great use of the bells.
We've done our fair share of school concerts and of course your offspring are always the best of them all, we are pre-programmed to think that way even if they're not.
You said it, Alyson. No way I have an ear to pick out one clarinet!
I'd forgotten all about this single.....never bought it at the time cos the bells annoyed me!! Just listened again....I was a fool back in 1982.
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