5000 Volts are another one-song-wonder from my collection, the one song being 1976 UK top-10 hit, Doctor Kiss Kiss.
It's not very good - it's a kind of disco pop version of Stevie Wonder's Superstition*, which means it really ought to be something wonderful, but it makes the mistake of being too slow to really dance to. Gah!
Jimmy Savile in a kilt, though. That's extremely disturbing.
The most interesting thing about 5000 Volts was their sometime singer, Tina Charles. Charles had a career which included:
- Vocals Top Of The Pops albums;
- Appearances on The Two Ronnies;
- She sang backing vocals on Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me);
- She had three solo UK top-10 hits, including the number-one, I Love To Love (But My Baby Loves To Dance) - frankly, a much better piece of disco pop than Doctor Kiss Kiss;
- Her backing band, at one point, included Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes.
But that's not her singing here - she's already moved on to solo success by this time. I was just looking for something mildly interesting to say about an otherwise dull subject.
*The link is to a live performance on Sesame Street. It really is quite something...
Stunned you have this and not "I'm on Fire", a 45 of which resides somewhere in the loft!
ReplyDeleteI was totally unaware of I'm On Fire until you mentioned it. I don't really do the 70s - there's a largely empty gulf in my musical knowledge between Bridge Over Troubled Water and Parallel Lines.
ReplyDeleteHaving just listened to it though, it's much better than Doctor Kiss Kiss. Weirdly, it's got that riff that's a bit of a rip-off of Black Is Black, but it predates the Belle Epoque disco version by a couple of years.