21/08/2019
When I moved from Boston about ten years ago, I found a plastic bag in the garage, it was full of the stuff I had in my DJ box - my Lizzie's home for 8 years and amongst the stuff in there was a request pad and a list of fave raves!
Bear in mind this is all 80s, I was there from 1982 - 1989.
Here is that list, some you may not know just by the title:
Matt Bianco - Wap Bam Boogie (Da**ie Dave)
Yazz - Only Way is Up!
Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way
Mann Parrish - Hip Hop, Don't Stop
Bobby Brown - My Perogative
Joyce Simms - Come into My Life
George Benson - Gimme the Night/Never Give up on a Good Thing (Brickie Nobby)
Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere (Alan & Steve (twins)
Mental as Anything - Live it Up (Jane Addy)
Clash - Rock the Casbah
Tom Browne - Funkin' for Jamacia
Smiffs - What Difference/Hang the DJ (Floppsie & Moppsey)
Gwen Guthrie - Nothin' Going on But the Rent
Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days (Ricky Carret)
Art of Noise - Close to the Edit (Ricky Carret)" "
Flash & The Pan - Waiting for a Train (Ricky Carret)
OMD - Locomotion
Human League - Being Boiled/Love Action
Culture Club - I'll Tumble for Ya
Alton Edwards - I Just Wanna
GQ - Disco Nights
Yarboro & Peoples - Don't Stop the Music
Ronnie Griffiths - Best Part of Breakin' Up (Jane, Cheryl, Sharon)
Millie Vanilli - Girl You Know it's True
Midnight Star - Midas Touch (Nobby)
Kool & Gang - Get Down on It (Mick Green - (Ging's baby brother))
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance (Rikki Carret)
Dead or Alive - Spin Me Round (Annette)
Col Abrahams - Trapped
Lionel Ritchie - All Night Long
Thomson Twins - You Take Me Up
Spyro Gyra - Morning Dance
Bros - When Will I be Famous *IMPORTANT:* 18+1 mix
Specials - Ghost Town/Friday Night, Saturday Morning
Haircut 100 - Favourite Shirts (Da**ie Dave)
UB40 - One in Ten
Blue Rondo ala Turk - Klactoveesedstein
Fat Larry's Band - Zoom (Marcus & Angie)
Madness - Baggy Trousers
Evelyn King - Love Come Down
Kid Creole - Annie, I love your f***y
Bow Wow Wow - Go Wild in the Country
New Order - Blue Monday/The Beach (Ricky Carret)
Malcolm McLaren - Buffalo Girls
Herbie Hankcock - Rockit (Upstairs Dazz)
FGTH - Two Tribes / Relax
Lil Louis - French Kiss
Marrs - Pump Up the Volume (Martin & Lisa)
Grandmaster Flash - White Lines
Paul Hardcastle - Nineteen
De Barge - Rythym of the Night
Steve Arrington - Feels so Real (Plumber Geoff)
Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait
Cameo - Word Up
Mel & Kim - Showing Out (for Pinky & Perky)
Pepsi & Shirley - Heartache
Alexander O'Neil - Criticise
Luther Van Dross - Never Too Much (Carl Pagden)
Mtume - Juicy Fruit (Amazons)
Rick James - Superfreak
D-Train - You're the One For Me
Earth Wind & Fire - Let's Groove Tonight
Rocker's Revenge - Walkin' on Sunshine
Fatback Band - I Found Lovin'
Kraftwerk - The Model (Ricky Carrett)
Seal - Killer
Housemaster Boyz - Housenation
Salt n' Pepper - Push It (Helena Ziggy)
Jackie Wilson - Higher & Higher (Trev & Ann)
Len Boone - Love won't Be Denied (Sonia Johson)
David Bowie - Golden Years/Let's Dance (Amazons)
Brian Ferry - Dance Away " " "
Grace Jones - Pull up to the Bumper (Main Ridge Mob)
Shannon - Let the Music Play
Devo - Whip it
SOS Band - Just be Good to Me
Strikers - Body Music
Laid Back - White Horse
Jocelyn Brown - Somebody Elses Guy
Sabrina - Boys
Tiffany - I Thing We're Alone Now
Daz Band - Let it All Blow
Can you add any more?
