I see that
tonight's Top of the Pops repeat on
BBC Four plays out with Taffy's I Love My
Radio (Midnight Radio). This generous slab of Italo disco was the work of the
renowned Italian producer Claudio Cecchetto. The repeated chorus of "I
love my radio, my midnight radio", sung by Deptford-born Katherine Quaye,
aka Taffy, would guarantee radio play
and the flip side of the 12" even included nine radio jingles.
First
released in 1985 it eventually charted in the UK in February 1987, reaching
number 6. The UK version was remixed as I
Love My Radio (Dee Jay's Radio) because, as the Wikipedia entry rather prosaically
explains: "as very few radio stations in the UK broadcast after midnight
in the 1980s, this reference in the record was changed." Nonetheless the
cover credits numerous European, mainly Italian, radio stations as well as a few UK ones including
Capital, Piccadilly, Clyde, City, Chiltern and London.
2 comments:
I'm sure that Wikipedia's giving American nationality to Taffy is a mistake.
As she herself tells Mike Smith on Top Of The Pops at 24.15, "I'm from Deptford" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcLi3kW6e58
Thanks Billy. Deptford indeed, and I see that Wikipedia has been amended, as has my post.
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