I'm gonna name either one of the chickens or one of the ducks Eileen.  That way I can literally be like, "Come on, Eileen!"

EDIT: not DenysMidnightRunners 😂

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Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Too-Rye-Ay, 1982 on Mercury

Credited on the cover to “Kevin Rowland & Dexys Midnight Runners,” this was their second LP, the first with Mercury Records and the one with the massive hit “Come on Eileen.” Wonderful album – also includes “Jackie Wilson Said.”

There were plans for a 40th anniversary reissue of Too-Rye-Ay “As It Could Have Sounded” (a remix) but I don’t believe it ever came to fruition.

My copy – via Vinyl Vault in Littleton MA – is a 1982 Mercury pressing with the “SRM-1-4069” catalog number and a “Previously released as SHRM 1-4069” notation.

Recorded #OnThisDay 46 years ago:

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Peel Session 1980

The complete session recorded by Dexy's Midnight Runners on 26 February 1980 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on 13 March 1980.

Tracklist:

1. The Horse (0:09)
2. (Tell Me When My) Light Turns Green (2:34)
3. Geno (6:25)
4. Breaking Down The Walls Of Heartache (10:36)

https://vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2014/07/dexys-midnight-runners-peel-session-1980.html

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"Dear Robin,

I'd try to explain, but you'd never see in a million years..."

from "There, There, My Dear'' on the album, "Searching for the Young Soul Rebels" by Dexy's Midnight Runners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searching_for_the_Young_Soul_Rebels

If enjoyed 'Come On, Eileen' in the 80s, but you haven't heard 'Searching for the Young Soul Rebels', you should give it a listen.

I got 'Too-Rye-Ay' when it came out, based -- of course -- on the teenage radio erotica of 'Come On, Eileen' and I listened to 'Too-Rye-Ay' a lot.

When I went looking for more of the same, I found 'Searching for the Young Soul Rebels'.

Which I did not like.

(As an aside, I also did not enjoy 'Don't Stand Me Down', but that's a story in itself.)

For several years, I had a tape that was 'Too-Rye-Ay' on one side, and 'Searching for the Young Soul Rebels' on the other side, and sometimes I would listen to 'Searching...', but usually I would fast forward through it.

I think -- as someone who grew up surrounded by country music and bluegrass -- I had a better understanding of the banjo and fiddle music of 'Too-Rye-Ay' and the more rural feel of the album, and that the horns and the urban, pseudointellectual vibe in 'Searching...' didn't appeal to me as much.

Until, one day, I realized that I was listening to 'Searching..' a lot more than I was listening to 'Too-Rye-Ay.' (And -- also -- that I really dig rock bands with horn sections.)

So -- as it turns out -- 'Searching for the Young Soul Rebels' is one of my favorite albums.

(Granted, Kevin Rowland is not nearly as smart and insightful as he thinks he is, but I think the teenage angst in 'Searching...' is sincere -- even if he was 23.)

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A filming location then and now from the classic 1982 music video of the Dexys Midnight Runners song Come On Eileen. More then and now filming locations photos at https://chrisbungostudios.com/photo-gallery-sampler

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