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Before she was famous....... Cynthia Lauper sang in a band called Blue Angel, who got dropped after just one album. Despite their lack of success they were pretty good. Their music had a real sixties flavor. The sound of this song reminds me of Bruce Springsteen's "Hungry Heart" which is also an update on the early '60s pop sound. You could easily imagine a girl group like The Shirelles or The Chiffons singing this back in the day.
“The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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I like it! It does have a 1960's appeal to it.  | |
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The original version of "I'm Gonna Be Strong" is from that album...It's simply my favorite cyndi song. Plus, it's a cover | |
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Matronik said: The original version of "I'm Gonna Be Strong" is from that album...It's simply my favorite cyndi song. Plus, it's a cover
Do you mean "I'm Gonna Be Strong" is a cover or this is a cover? I thought this was an original. [Edited 4/26/08 17:27pm] “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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midnightmover said: Matronik said: The original version of "I'm Gonna Be Strong" is from that album...It's simply my favorite cyndi song. Plus, it's a cover
Do you mean "I'm Gonna Be Strong" is a cover or this is a cover? I thought this was an original. [Edited 4/26/08 17:27pm] The song is from the 60's if I'm not mistaken. Then Blue Angel covered it on their album...later Cyndi did a new version for the "Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some" compilation. | |
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What angries me, is that I have a shitty vinil rip of the Blue Angel album...It was re-issued in cd...but it's so scarce!  | |
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Matronik said: midnightmover said: Do you mean "I'm Gonna Be Strong" is a cover or this is a cover? I thought this was an original. [Edited 4/26/08 17:27pm] The song is from the 60's if I'm not mistaken. Then Blue Angel covered it on their album...later Cyndi did a new version for the "Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some" compilation. Right, you're talking about "I'm Gonna Be Strong" then. This song ("I Had A Love") is an original. So who did the original of "I'm Gonna Be Strong"? “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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Matronik said: What angries me, is that I have a shitty vinil rip of the Blue Angel album...It was re-issued in cd...but it's so scarce!
Jeez, I didn't know there were any copies on CD. I saw a good quality original vinyl copy on ebay once, but I just missed the deadline to bid.  [Edited 4/26/08 17:36pm] “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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midnightmover said: Matronik said: What angries me, is that I have a shitty vinil rip of the Blue Angel album...It was re-issued in cd...but it's so scarce!
Jeez, I didn't know there were any copies on CD. I saw a good quality original vinyl copy on ebay once, but I just missed the deadline to bid.
[Edited 4/26/08 17:36pm] It was only released in cd...in 2005...limite release of 1000 or 5000 copies...or something like that!  some iTunes stores have it, but I hate drm[Edited 4/26/08 17:38pm] | |
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midnightmover said: Matronik said: What angries me, is that I have a shitty vinil rip of the Blue Angel album...It was re-issued in cd...but it's so scarce!
Jeez, I didn't know there were any copies on CD. I saw a good quality original vinyl copy on ebay once, but I just missed the deadline to bid.
[Edited 4/26/08 17:36pm] check your orgnotes...i think i found it! | |
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Who is this girl Cyndi Lauper and why is she so unuuuuusual? | |
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Their album also featured "Maybe He'll Know", which she ended up re-recording for the True Colors album 1986. Here she is performing it in it's original form. She was probably a bit too wild for her own good in those days, but you could already see she was onto her own thing.
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So far from what I'm hearing , I like Blue Angel. Do they have a greatest hits cd? | |
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EccentricLady said: So far from what I'm hearing , I like Blue Angel. Do they have a greatest hits cd?
Sadly not. They only released one album and as Cyndi put it, it "went lead".  “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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