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As far as I can tell, this one from Pat Benatar hasn't been posted. Video made with old-school special effects in 1981. "Precious Time". A lesson in guitar playing, too.
We're going to get obscure now. No joke. SO down below ground, we may have to take our own oxygen. Something tells me nobody here knows who this girl is, let alone seen the video below.
Born Andrea Truden in Nashville in 1943, Andrea True followed her dreams of becoming an actress to NYC in the 60s. Unfortunately, things didn't pan out. Bit roles, walk-ons, extra work. Nothing substantial. She was forced to turn to acting in adult films beginning in 1970, and she did that for much of the decade under a variety of screen names.
But something weird happened. She suddenly had a big disco hit in 1975 called "More, More, More" that dominated the club charts. So her manager-producer buddy and she scrambled to cobble together a legitimate album. Then a second album, White Witch, in '77. Some more (limited) chart success. But that wave eventually crashed ashore, too, and Andrea was back doing blue movies — actually, she never stopped.
At the tail end of her "acting" and singing career, before she bowed and withdrew into the sands of obscurity, Andrea did an about-face and recorded a new wave-punk album called War Machine in 1980.
Here's the title track...and the goofy video she and her band made! It's actually not a bad tune. The Rick Wakeman-style prog rock keyboard solo is unexpected, and pretty cool, too. (Too bad the guy's uncredited.)
That video IS truly cheesy... anything with a B-52 in it is gonna be that way. I didn't know she did anything in the 1980s. (Seems everyone tried to do New Wave in 1980... Linda Ronstadt, Billy Joel, Foghat, Alice Cooper, even.) I thought after "More, More, More" she'd gone back to porn. She died back in 2011. In 1999 LEN sampled "More..." for "Steal My Sunshine"... I won a free lunch by being the only caller to a radio station who could identify the sample.
So, this isn't 1980s... it's late 1979, although the album In the Heat of the Night didn't peak until 1980. A cover of Nick Gilder's "Rated X", very early Pat Benatar. I am at a loss to identify who she sounds like... Kate Bush, maybe? Or Shirley Manson in "Cherry Lips"? She did have that mezzo-soprano voice in "We Live For Love", same album.
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