HILLY MICHAELS - CALLING ALL GIRLS (1980)
Part of the New-York 70's music scene, he first came to my ears as a solo artist on the Big Sound Records' Phil Spector tribute "Bionic Gold" released in 1977 (an excellent cover of "Instant Karma"). Hilly Michaels' Calling All Girls video was all over MTV back in the days when MTV's programmers didn't have a lot to choose from and were occasionally forced to show decent material. The album, also called Calling All Girls, is a fun though lightweight mix of glam and power-pop played and produced by pros (it sounds like it should only be listened to on a car radio). There's Teenage Days and Shake It And Dance which sounds like one part Abba and one part Generation X's Dancing With Myself. (Or maybe Dancing With Myself sounds like this. The release dates are close.). Possibly one of the best track on the album is the last one: Something On Your Mind (as featured with a Paul Collins song, in the exhilarating motion picture "Caddy Shack" (1980). If you don't know Sparks, this may sound like Queen to you. If you do know the work of the Mael brothers, the source should be obvious (actually Hilly was a drummer for Sparks at one point).
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Calling All Girls / Teenage Days / Shake It Dance / Gemini / U.S. Male / Without You / Turn Me On Your Radio / Close Encounters / Devotion / Something On Your Mind
13 comments:
Thank you Angelo! My LP and turntable are packed away, so I'm looking forward to hearing this for the first time in years!
(Now if I could only convince you to try out Sharebee.com! Upload once to them, they mirror the file to four or five services like Rapidshare, Megaupload, etc. etc. That way users get a choice and can avoid those messages like "You have reached your download limit. Please wait 97 minutes.")
Superb Angelo....thanks for this one....anychance of the Crash Street Kids or The Gigolo Aunts...would make me a happy man....
A friend mentioned sharebee to me the other day and it saves a whole heap of work and it's quick uploading too...
Keep up the excellent work...it's appreciated.....
The Legend...
This was such a fun album. His second one, Lumia, was pretty good too. As always, thanks!
The both of you (I'm including PVAc to 44.1 kHz as well) are amazing! The list of albums I never thought I'd hear again keeps getting shorter and shorter!
And the list of amazing music I hadn't heard before and love now keeps getting longer!
Please keep doing what you're doing!
I get a message that this file is password encrypted! $#!T! What's the PW?
the Crash Street Kids LP will be soon made available - it's been in the making for a while now but i want a brand new rip to be shared here - the CSK track on the Powerpop To The People Vol 1 is coming from that new rip.
This is really fab! I don't suppose you have any Duncan Faure-era (Bay City) Rollers, do you...been looking for "Elevator" for a long time...I have the LP, but no longer have a turntable!
Angelo,
I Know this post is old, (as blogs go) but The 2nd Hilly Michaels' cd "Lumia" just got posted at
http://alocacoc-blog.blogspot.com/2007/07/fixes-gambler-hilly-randy-some-brits.html
(and for side3...
you can find 3 of the Rollers albums you're looking for at
http://robotsforronnie.blogspot.com/
just look in the archives!)
Hmmmm... Am i missing something? I can't seem to find the link. Would love to have this, been looking around which is how I came to find this great blog.
Excellet, many thanks, I have looked high and low for this and have not heard this since the invention of MTV in 1981. It reminds me of simpler times in my life.
Thanks for the chance to get this.Great listening all these years later,,A shame I will most likely never see the Todd Runt-gren produced Calling all girls video again.Pops'Beat hath spoken!
What's the password to open the album?
Scratch the last comment. Thanks for the PW.
I could NEVER remember who sang CALLING ALL GIRLS but I always remembered seeing the video on MTV when it still in its infancy and still worth a damn.
Thanks!
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