This song reminds me of so many things! My friends Melanie and Mark, listening to the charts in my bedroom on a combined radio cassette deck that was given to me by my Aunty Sheila and making my first ‘radio programme’.
My friend Melanie (who lived five houses down the road from me) was the proud owner of a monophonic synthesiser the Roland SH-09, which was the same synth, used to create the guitar sound and hence the tune on this single. In those days synthesisers were not pre-programmed and in order to create a ‘sound’ the user had to follow the diagrams and move the dials and switches to the correct ‘wave’ patterns and oscillator frequencies to make that sound required and I remember working with Mel to set up the guitar sound so we could have a play and see how they had done it. Having done it we were very proud of ourselves. Every time I hear this single it reminds me of the Roland SH-09 and the fun we had programming the synthesisers when these instruments were new and you could only play one key at a time on them!!
Round about the time this tune was in the charts I made a tape of some of my favourite songs and (in the same spirit of this blog) I explained between them (having recorded the ‘links’ on my new cassette deck and radio!) why I liked them and what I liked about them. In this instance it was the tape loops of the choir singing at the start of the song as well as the use of the SH-09! I gave copies to my school friends to listen to!
This is a great song.
Listen….
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