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"Would someone please explain the reason for this strange behavior?"
Would someone please explain the reason for this strange behavior? Would they???
This tune is the very definition of a lost hit. I can't even remember the last time I heard this one on the radio, except maybe in an American Top 40 rebroadcast. I seem to have a vague memory of it clanking out of an AM radio when I was 13, but when it was gone, it was gone.
Yet I've been informed that "Skin Trade" was recently played on a music system on a cruise ship. So whoever decides what music is played on cruise ships hasn't forgotten about the song. On the other hand, this was at sea, not on broadcast radio in the U.S., and cruise ship music systems have a very limited reach. You probably go to gatherings where folks have '80s cassette collections more than you go on international cruises.
Despite fading from radio quickly back in 1987, the song had some influence. It seems like my high school principal once angrily asked, "Would someone please explain the reason for this strange behavior?" But I don't remember if this was a real quote or just someone doing an impression of him, as it sounds like exactly the sort of thing he would say when very frustrated (as he often was). My battles with him had an even bigger influence - for many years thereafter. In broadcasting class in college, we had to record a radio drama, so we recorded lines from a Star Trek record. I was so fed up with being harassed by a star basketball player in that class that I just recorded my lines using a ridiculously exaggerated imitation of my old principal and didn't put any effort into it. Then I stopped coming to class because the school let this student get away with everything because he was a star athlete.
This student later went to prison after a big police chase in which he was found with gobs of meth and cash and a handgun.
Now that's some strange behavior we can't explain!
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