Best of Bandstands in Foreign Lands - Vol. 14: JOIN THE COUNTRY CLUB!

Welcome to volume 14

of my globetrotting series

BANDSTANDS IN

FOREIGN LANDS!

I'm Shady Seaweed, here to

bring you more great music

performances that originated

from TV studios, big halls

and nightclubs in Europe

and other parts of the

world from the 1960s

through early 2000s. 

Join me for another exciting trip as we visit

BANDSTANDS IN

FOREIGN LANDS!

 THE 

 HINDLEY STREET 

 COUNTRY CLUB 

 (AKA HSCC) 

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

In this special edition of BIFL, I am pleased to bring

back for their third appearance at Shady's Place

The Hindley Street Country Club aka HSCC,

the world-renowned live studio cover band

from South Australia that I introduced last

year in my salute to Diversity and in my

Best of the Quarantunes post.

For their first performance of my Biffle special, HSCC

tackles The Jacksons' 1979 disco funk hit "Shake Your Body

(Down To The Ground)." Out front on lead vocals are the

"HSCC Bad Girls," Pina Del Re, Nikki Heuskes & Kat Jade. 

"Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)" - Jacksons cover

by Hindley Street Country Club (Jan. 2021) 

Next Hindley Street Country Club covers "Stop Draggin. My Heart Around,"

the 1981 hit for Stevie Nicks co-written by Tom Petty, a recording that had

Petty singing on the chorus and bridge and his Heartbreakers band playing

on the track. The HSCC version features vocals by Lesley Williams and

guitar and vocals by Dusty Stephensen. 

"Stop Draggin. My Heart Around" - Stevie Nicks/Tom Petty

cover by The Hindley Street Country Club aka HSCC (May 2020)




Now here's the 1982 Michael McDonald classic "I Keep Forgettin'

(Every Time You're Near)" from his debut album If That's What It Takes.

Handling lead vocals this time for HSCC is Sarah Lloyde.

"I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)" - Michael McDonald

cover by HSCC feat Sarah Lloyde (Nov. 2019)




Up next, the ever popular Nikki Heuskes singing lead for HSCC

doing what could be considered in the context of this post an

answer song to Michael McDonald's "I Keep Forgettin'."

Nikki's unforgettable as she covers Patrice Rushen's

1982 post-disco club hit "Forget Me Nots." 

"Forget Me Nots" - Patrice Rushen cover

by HSCC feat. Nikki Heuskes (Feb. 2020)




If you're just joining me, this is a special edition of my series

Bandstands in Foreign Lands, a salute to The Hindley Street

Country Club, the fine cover band from the land down under.

Here again is Sarah Lloyde on lead vocals doing her best

Ann Wilson as she fronts the band singing "Alone," the

chart-topping single from Heart's 1987 album Bad Animals. 

"Alone" - Heart cover by HSCC feat Sarah Lloyde

(Jan. 2020)




You met Kat Jade at the top of the show as one of the "HSCC Bad Girls."

Kat, a talented songstress from Adelaide, South Australia, appeared

on Season 3 of The Voice Australia. Here's Kat singing lead as

HSCC pays tribute to the late, great Bill Withers doing

his signature song "Ain't No Sunshine." 

"Ain't No Sunshine" - Bill Withers cover by HSCC

feat. Kat Jade (Aug. 2020)




In the summer of 1977 "Best Of My Love" was a #1 charting hit

 for the Chicago-based R&B/Disco girl group The Emotions.

To wrap up this Biffle trip, here's our featured Aussie band

with a slightly different lineup of the "HSCC Bad Girls" -

Pina Del Re, Nikki Heuskes and Lesley Williams. 

"Best Of My Love" - The Emotions cover by HSCC

feat. Pina Del Re, Nikki Heuskes & Lesley Williams

(Apr. 2020)

I hope you enjoyed volume 14 of

BANDSTANDS IN

FOREIGN LANDS.

Stay tuned for the next edition

coming soon!

New Sense-8-ions: Best of the Quarantunes!

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"Fire & Ice" - Pat Benatar cover by Renee & Bob

(Renee Savoy Willoughby & Bob Gilmartin, July 2020)

Kicking off the show,

that was a fabulous cover

of Pat Benatar's 1981 hit

"Fire And Ice" sung so

very nicely in isolation

by Jersey girl Renee

Savoy Willoughby,

a veteran songstress

who performs with

the Hoboken based

wedding cover band

Groove. Renee was

accompanied on

guitar by Bob Gilmartin.

Hi everyone! As you recall I'm Will Gorski,

a Chicago police officer on the science fiction

drama Sense8. A few weeks ago you met four

of my friends who were presenters for Shady's

salute to diversity. Today I'm joining the three

remaining sensates to bring you the Best of the Quarantunes - great performances by artists all

over the world recorded during this challenging

year of social distancing, hunkering down and

sheltering in place...fine entertainers like this

next act from Adelaide, South Australia. It's singer/songwriter Kat Jade and her band

featuring Michael Bates on co-lead vocals.

They perform a rendition of a Motown song

originally waxed into a hit by Marvin Gaye

and Tammi Terrell and later by Diana Ross.

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Kat, a jazz, pop and blue-eyed soul singer, was a contestant on the Australian

version of The Voice, and you are about to see and hear why. Here are Kat,

Michael and the band doing-- "Ain't No Mountain High Enough!"

"Ain't No Mountain High Enough" - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

live cover by Kat Jade (July 2020)

Hello, I'm Wolfgang Bogdanow. If your memory is intact you know that

I am a locksmith and safe-cracker living in Berlin, Germany. I'm taking

you to England now for another song cover released by singer and

musician Amy Slattery, another collaboration with her dad Gerry.

This time the duo covers the 1974 chart-topping debut single

by the English pop glam band The Rubettes.

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Bubblegum's the word as Amy & Gerry do-- "Sugar Baby Love!"

"Sugar Baby Love" - The Rubettes

cover By Amy & Gerry Slattery (June 2020)

Back for another go round are the

delightful Romanian duo of singing sweetie Beatrice Florea and guitar

hero Andrei Cerbu. Direct from

Andrei's garage, here they are

covering the 1979 Bob Seeger

hit that went on to become a

popular music standard.

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Tom Cruise did an iconic lip sync
in Risky Business, and here are
Beatrice and Andrei with
"Old Time Rock N Roll!"

"Old Time Rock N Roll" - Bob Seger

cover by Beatrice Florea & Andrei Cerbu (July 2020)

My name is Capheus but my friends

(and enemies) call me "Van Damn"

because I am the world's biggest fan

of Jean-Claude Van Damme. As you

may remember, I am also a minibus

driver in Nairobi, Kenya. We are circumnavigating the globe in

this Quarantunes program, and I

would like to introduce Russia born
YouTube star Alyona Yarushina.

Alyona performs a cover of the
1968 hit by Janis Joplin and her band

Big Brother & the Holding Company.

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It's a song originally recorded by

Erma Franklin, a top 10 R&B hit

for Aretha's sister in late '67--

Piece Of My Heart!"

"Piece Of My Heart" - Janis Joplin/Big Brother And the Holding Company

cover by Alyona Yarushina of the Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy

Now meet another rising star, Ukrainian YouTuber Victory Vizhanska. In the

delightful iso-performance you are

about to see, Victory adopts the

style of her idol Marilyn Monroe

as she sings "I Never Met A Wolf

Who Didn't Live To Howl," a song

from the 2012/2013 American

musical drama TV series Smash.

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Watch as this charming carrot top

declares Victory over quarantine!

"I Never Met A Wolf Who Didn't Live To Howl"

 - from 2012/2013 musical drama TV series Smash - 

cover by Victory Vizhanska (July 2020)

Hello again! I'm Riley "Blue" Gunnarsdóttir, an Icelandic DJ living in London.

I'm sure you remember my series of Riley's Raves on the old blog Shady Dell

Music & Memories. I have returned and so has Anne Reburn, the talented

singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer originally from Oklahoma now

living in Los Angeles. In this shot-at-home video, Anne does her version

of "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" best known as the top 5

hit by Betty Everett in the spring of 1964. Here's Anne!

"The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)" - Betty Everett/Cher

cover by Anne Reburn (July 2020)

We hope you enjoyed Best of the

Quarantunes - homemade cover

performances by exciting music

makers around the world. Earlier

in the show you met Kat Jade,

a talented young singer in

Adelaide, South Australia.

To play us off, here's a

wildly popular band in

the same city that Kat

knows and works with.

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You met them earlier this year, HSCC - The Hindley Street

Country Club, and they're back with "Physical," the Olivia

Newton-John single that spent 10 weeks at number one on

the U.S. chart in late 1981 and early '82. Now for Will,

Wolfgang and Capheus, I'm Riley "Blue." So long!

"Physical" - Olivia Newton-John cover

by The Hindley Street Country Club (July 2020)

D i v e r s i t y D i V e R s I t Y d I v E r S i T y D o n ' t E r a s e i t - E m b r a c e i t

Hey wassup. I'm

Malcolm Winters,

Neil's brother and

Genoa City's top

fashion photographer

on the award winning

TV daytime drama

The Young and

 The Restless.

Today I invited a

few friends over

to Shady's Place

for a celebration

of diversity.

Let's all find out how good it feels to come together
as a party of one. Enjoy the show and I'll get
with you at the end.

I'm Iris West, Central City newspaper reporter, wife of Barry Allen

and co-leader of Team Flash on the television series The Flash.

The Fabsisters, the vocal duo of sisters Lola and Folake from the UK, went from

singing gospel in church and competing in talent shows to performing together at

charity events, open mics and gigs. Their YouTube channel has tens of thousands

of subscribers and their videos have attracted millions of views. To kick-off our

salute to diversity, The Fabsisters will cover a Sam Cooke song that is widely

considered his best composition, an anthem of the Civil Rights Movement

selected for preservation in the Library of Congress and classified by the

National Recording Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically

important." Here now are The Fabsisters singing-- "It's been a long

time coming... but I know A Change Is Gonna Come."

"A Change Is Gonna Come" -

Sam Cooke cover by The Fabsisters

My name is Kala Dandekar. I am a university

educated pharmacist and devout Hindu in

Mumbai, India, on the TV series Sense8.

More than ten years ago family and friends,

some young, some old, came together in

Smyrna, Georgia, to form a band called

Foxes and Fossils. Recently the gifted

group covered "Love Is The Answer,"

a Todd Rundgren song released by his

rock band Utopia in 1977, and a chart-

topping hit single for England Dan &

John Ford Coley in 1979. Tears may
come to your eyes as you experience
this wonderful 2020 performance
by Foxes And Fossils!

"Love Is The Answer" - Todd Rundgren/Utopia

cover by Foxes and Fossils

My name is Lito Rodriguez. On Sense8 I am

a closeted Spanish actor living in Mexico City

with my boyfriend. Independence Day is upon

us, and here to sing the patriotic song every

American knows is singer and bandleader

Mike Geier, famous on YouTube in recent

years as Puddles the sad singing clown, an

act he calls Puddles Pity Party. Here now

is Puddles and "America The Beautiful."

"Here's to empathy, progress

and hanging in there. We're

in this together." - Puddles

"America The Beautiful" - Puddles Pity Party

I am Sun Bak on Sense8, daughter of a

powerful Korean businessman and a

rising star of underground kickboxing.

We are traveling around the world in

today's salute to diversity. Here now

is Hindley Street Country Club aka

HSCC - a band based in Adelaide,

 South Australia. They will cover

the chart-topping 1979 hit by the

R&B duo McFadden and Whitehead.

The song, interpreted to be about the

experience of the African American

community, soon became known as

"the new black national anthem."

Here now is HSCC performing

"Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now."

"Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" - McFadden And Whitehead

cover by The Hindley Street Country Club

"Just because

you look scary

...doesn't mean

you are scary."
—Mona Wu

Hi, I'm Mona Wu, the Chinese delivery girl

and the Time Bureau's expert on magical

creatures on DC's Legends of Tomorrow.

Up next, a special moment that was recently

captured by the camera in Washington, D.C.

 Nine year old figure skater Kaitlyn Saunders

improvised a roller skating performance on

the Black Lives Matter Plaza. Skating to the

Andra Day song “Rise Up,” Kaitlyn expressed

her hope for the future amidst social unrest.

 Kaitlyn explains she wants all people to feel

“free” - the feeling she gets while skating. 

"Rise Up" - Andra Day

June 17, 2020, skating perf. by Kaitlyn Saunders

I'm Nomi Marks from Sense8. Don't

call me Michael. I am a trans woman

hacktivist and blogger living in San

Francisco with my girlfriend. "Nomi"

stands for "Know Me." I am proud to

introduce a talented young woman

named Anne Reburn. Born in Okla-

homa, Anne moved to Los Angeles

and in recent years became a star

on YouTube doing covers as well as

original songs. Anne sings multiple

vocal parts in synced harmony and

plays a variety of instruments.

Recently Anne breathed new life into "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing

(In Perfect Harmony)," the song that was originally the jingle of the 1971
Coca-Cola commercial "Buy the World a Coke." The soft drink reference
was dropped and the song re-recorded by two groups - The New Seekers
and The Hillside Singers and both acts scored major hits with it on both
sides of the pond. Here now is Anne Reburn singing "I'd Like To Teach
The World To Sing." Don't miss her spoken message at the 2:55 mark.

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AT 25 SEC. MARK!

"I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing" - Anne Reburn

Thank you, Anne Reburn, for using your

platform to take a stand against racism,

and thanks to all the guest artists who

appeared on today's special. Can I get

real with you for a minute, my friend?

Peace, love and understanding is what

it's all about. United we stand, divided

we fall. If we don't get it together soon,

we all lose, and there will be no future

for our children and grandchildren.

Please, brothers and sisters, let's all

remember what Dr. King taught us

many years ago: "Darkness cannot

drive out darkness; only light can

do that. Hate cannot drive out hate;

only love can do that." Now for

Nomi Marks, Mona Wu, Sun Bak,

Lito Rodriguez, Kala Dandekar &

Iris West, this is Malcolm Winters.

Thanks for watching and listening.

We conclude our salute to diversity with Broadway United, an all-star
roster of theater artists, singing a classic song and calling for healing
and unity. It's a cover of the famous song written by Michael Jackson
and Lionel Richie and recorded 35 years ago by the supergroup
U.S.A. For Africa, a video that inspired millions of people
in America and all around the globe. Here are today's
stars of Broadway and-- "We Are The World."

"We Are the World" - U.S.A. For Africa

cover by Broadway United