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  • From: Evan Davies <evandavies AT yahoo.com>
  • To: typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [TypicalGirls] Cosmopolitans retrospective CD just released!
  • Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:20:29 -0700 (PDT)

Hi,

I mostly lurk on this list, but thought that this news would be of interest
to TG readers.

List members Of A Certain Age (or with an appreciation of history) may recall
the female-fronted downtown NYC-via-Chapel Hill band/dance troupe The
Cosmopolitans. Their songs "(How To Keep Your) Husband Happy" and "Wild Moose
Party," released as a single on the venerable Shake label in 1980, were big
college radio and club hits at the time but have so far been unavailable on
any compilation or re-issue. Well, that's no longer the case!

Dionysus/Bacchus Archives has just released a retrospective CD, called 'Wild
Moose Party,' that includes those two songs plus about 8 more tracks that
have never been released! And as if that weren't enough the CD also includes
a music video for "Husband Happy," featuring the acting talents of Mitch
Easter and Faye Hunter, pre-Let's Active, intercut with some live footage
from the Uncle Floyd Show (which includes me "playing" drums -- more like
trying to avoid hitting them too hard so we could still hear the playback of
the record we were lipsync-ing to). The CD is available through the usual
online and in-person outlets; if you don't see it, ask for it!

You can also check out the inevitable myspace page at
http://www.myspace.com/thecosmopolitans -- not much there yet, but that will
change in the coming days.

thanks!

Evan

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