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Cyndi Lauper, She’s So Unusual, 1983 on Portrait
Lauper’s debut solo album, She’s So Unusual had four top-five singles: “Girls Just Want To Have Fun,” “Time After Time,” “She Bop,” and “All Through The Night.”
A number of the songs were covers – “Money Changes Everything” by The Brains, “When You Were Mine” by Prince, “All Through The Night” by Jules Shear, and even “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” which was written by Robert Hazard who had performed it with multiple bands and made a demo recording.
Truly a must-have album for an 80s music fan.
My copy—via a record fair at Mill No. 5 in Lowell MA—is a 1984 pressing with the original inner liner and Portrait label.
#1980s #1983 #CyndiLauper #JulesShear #LowellMA #MillNo5 #Portrait #prince #RobertHazard #TheBrains #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds
@waltman And in #food-themed #music trivia, a young version of my band The Phoenix Trap made a grungy appearance on the 1998 compilation CD “#Scrapple Rocks,” alongside #Philly hitmaker #RobertHazard (songwriter for #CyndiLauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and his own #NewWave hit “Escalator of Life”)
“Mmm Scrapple” (The Phoenix Trap): https://youtu.be/jrMqzo2DmBA
“Hit of Scrapple” (Robert Hazard): https://youtu.be/0f_YSlhl7Oo
the full “Scrapple Rocks” album: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL85DB94C590EA7850
Ted Tocks Covers
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Originally posted on August 5, 2018
From the early days of Ted Tocks Covers, here is Cyndi Lauper’s famous cover of a Robert Hazard penned song. It was released 40 years ago today.
“I come home in the morning light
My mother says, "When you gonna live your life right?"
Oh, mamma, dear, we're not the fortunate ones
And girls—they wanna have fun
Oh, girls just wanna have fun”
https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2018/08/05/girls-just-wanna-have-fun/
Hands up if you knew that ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’ was originally written and recorded as a demo by Robert Hazard in 1979. It kind of sounds like Ian Drury meets The Knack. Hazard wh…
“Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” (Original by Robert Hazard in 1979; Cover by Cyndi Lauper in 1983)
https://youtu.be/6zeOag2fU3s (audio only)
Sometimes a good cover doesn’t just bring fresh life to an old favorite - it takes a relatively obscure track and makes it a feminist anthem which still pops up everywhere 40 years later.
This track was arguably THE breakthrough track for Lauper, who deserves substantial credit for reworking some of the lyrics and reshaping the style so that anyone not paying attention could easily overlook the fact that these are the same basic song released only four years apart.
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