Rate Your Music score: 3.14 out of 5!
If you hadn't seen the year listed above, what year would you guess this lost hit was from? 1987?
This record sounds quaint today, but it was considered way ahead of its time in 1979. It was popular during the summer I turned 6, and back then, I thought the beginning of this song was like nothing I'd ever heard before.
The only context I ever remember hearing this song though was through an external speaker we set up on the back porch. We had a Magnavox console stereo with an AM/FM receiver from circa 1972 in the living room. For years, I think it was the only radio we had with FM, except for a transistor radio that later got broken when the dog knocked it off the kitchen table. Somehow, we ran a wire from the stereo all the way to the back porch.
I don't even remember where the wire went. We might have run it up through the living room closet and through an "attic" that supposedly existed, but which I never saw.
This was also in the days when radio DJ's used to tell listeners, "Don't touch that radio!" How was a DJ supposed to know if I touched the radio? I once tested this admonition by fiddling with the bass, treble, and balance knobs on the stereo. The DJ didn't come to my house and beat me up.
In the 1980s, we moved the external speaker into the den - yet hardly ever used it anymore. The only time I remember the speaker being on in the den was one day when I got into a famous sibling squabble. My mom tried to make us behave by putting the stereo on some weird station and blasting it in the den. It's like how stores blare the same music nonstop to chase away loiterers (while not caring what nearby residents think), or when Sesame Street songs were played for days at a time to torture Guantanamo Bay inmates.
Playing the same music over and over as a torture technique is actually what radio stations today do. In contrast to this, this lost hits blog commemorates music we never get to hear anymore.
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