Oh. Thank. Fuck. The end of my first week back in work after a hedonistic fortnight's leave is staggering to its very welcome end.
We need something upbeat to get the adrenaline flowing for the weekend, methinks!
An anomaly of a band if ever there was, The Whispers kept the torch aflame for funky 1970s music (in a similar vein to Kool and the Gang, Anita Ward, Detroit Spinners, the Jacksons and several others of their ilk) and the fashion styles of that decade well into the 80s, pushing aside the bigoted shit of the "Disco Demolition" movement in the US and the "anti-establishment" Punk and New Wave trends in the UK.
That's no bad thing, in my opinion - so Thank Disco It's Friday!
Have a great weekend, dear reader!
I want to join that exercise group but first I have to get myself a floppy wig.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you'd look lovely in a floppy wig, dear. If it matched your beard, you could be Dumbledore. Jx
DeleteYay! The weekend! Always good to have a riotous mix of musical styles going on in the charts instead of samey-ness.
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I can say with certainly that there was no "samey-ness" in the 1970s or 1980s - so many different types of music competing for space in the charts at the same time. Jx
DeleteYou know, dead or alive, they are still wearing those same sweaters today.
ReplyDeleteAnd the "pornstar moustaches", too. Probably a lot greyer. Jx
DeleteYellow's not my colour. Could I sit this exercise class out?
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you'd be more comfortable in the maroon-jumpers-and-cream-slacks look of The Whispers, dear Mistress. I promise I wont mention the words "old fart". Honest. Jx
DeleteI can't promise I won't break wind as I do my squats in front of you.
DeleteA fart can be useful;
DeleteIt gives the body ease.
It warms the bed in winter,
And suffocates the fleas.
Jx
Well, that's a wee chuckle...
ReplyDeleteWe aim to please... Jx
DeleteFab then and still fab now.
ReplyDeleteIt was exactly the sort of thing we'd expect to hear at a family do at a workmen's club with a mobile DJ back in the 80s - along with Stacey Lattisaw, The Nolans, Kelly Marie and Celebration by Kool & the Gang. To be honest, back in Plymouth it probably still is. Jx
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