The winner of the other important election of November is the 1979 K-Tel classic,
Starflight. This will be the featured album on Adventures in Vinyl in December.
So take a trip back to the last year of the 1970s---a time when Blondie was tearing up the airwaves with "Heart of Glass," Sigourney Weaver was battling a creature in space and a Chicago DJ was blowing up disco records in a ballpark. Yep. The 70s were just about over.
Even K-Tel noticed that things were changing. Before 1979, the label they slapped on their discs looked like this:
In 1979, it changed to this:
I am not sure where I got
Starflight. I think I may have picked it up in a Goodwill store. It's not in great shape. I spent a lot of time cleaning it and it sounds pretty good. A couple of scratches, though. That's okay---it makes it more authentic. The album is over 30 years old, after all.
Eclectic to it's core,
Starflight offers up a variety of 70s hits. It features some prominent disco in a time when disco was on the way out: Peaches & Herb, Abba, Atlanta Rhythm Section. Some 70s pop: Elton John, Robert John, Suzi Quatro. And some rock and roll as well: Foreigner, Cheap Trick and Peter Frampton.
Here's the commercial:
So join us on this music time trip through the magic of K-Tel. Adventures in Vinyl can be heard at the following times (all times Central)
Saturday, 12 pm
Sunday, 4 pm
Tuesday, 1 pm
Wednesday 2 am
Thursday, 10 am
Adventures inVinyl: The only radio show dedicated to the lost art of the K-Tel record compilation. Only on Vinyl Voyage Radio.
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