Sharing the date with a whole raft of fellow celebrants, including Dame Penelope Keith, Sir Alec Guinness, Marvin Gaye, Émile Zola, Hans Christian Andersen, Casanova, Linford Christie, Serge Gainsbourg, Paul Gambaccini, Emmylou Harris, Pedro Pascal, Buddy Ebsen, Sue Townsend, Max Ernst, George MacDonald Fraser, Teddy Sheringham, William Holman Hunt, Michael Fassbender, Camille Paglia, Brian Glover, Kenneth Tynan and - erm - Dr. Demento...
...it is the (gulp!) 65th birthday today of the lovely Miss Keren Woodward, founding member of house faves Bananarama!
No further excuse needed for a dose of cheer from the ladies themselves:
[Yes. It is a tribute to another great "house favourite" here at Dolores Delargo Towers, Hypnotic Tango by My Mine...]As it is a foreshortened week thanks to Easter, perhaps I should be saying Thank Disco It's Thursday(?)!!
Have a great extended weekend, dear reader!
Somehow I missed "Look on the Floor" the first time around. Oops! (I've just listened to "Hypnotic Tango" in your earlier post, too.)
ReplyDeleteHappy looooooooonnnng weekend, Jon! x
I was impressed when the 'Nanas released it! It brought memories of all those unheralded gems I adored in the 80s flooding right back!
DeleteI do love a long one! Jx
Happy Easter!
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
Happy "chocolate-eating-season", Janie!! Jx
DeleteOoh! Bananarama. I’ll be listening to these again in the morning.
ReplyDeleteThey are just so uplifting! Jx
DeleteLOVE Bananarama! My favorite album of theirs is one called Pop Life. And Look on the Floor has always been a favorite song...the first time I heard it was in San Francisco dancing the night away at a club called the Cafeteria. Every time I hear it I think of that summer out there.
ReplyDeleteMy fave era of theirs was their Wow! album, produced by Stock Aitken Waterman - with all their most successful hits. However, the girls can do no wrong in my opinion, and I think a lot of their later stuff, Look on the Floor included, have been sadly overlooked.
DeleteThat's the way what laughingly passes for "the charts" has worked for years, unfortunately - some great stuff by the likes of Kylie, Steps and even Queen Madge has been ignored by "the great unwashed"... Jx
Thank Disco It's Thursday
ReplyDeleteand Thank Disco for Bananarama.
Pure Joy !
They're faboo! Jx
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