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Eruption: One Way Ticket

POSTED ON July 19 , 2020 BY RPD405
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Another band one from the House of Frank Farian (he of the Boney M & Milli Vanilli fame). Eruption were a band of English-Caribbean singers, who muddled along till the mid-70s with next to little success. Down and out on their luck after being fired by their label, RCA, they undertook a last-ditch tour of Germany to make some money. There, they met Frank Farian who signed them up for his label to play for some of his acts – in fact, they were the backing band for Boney Mā€™s first tour!

In 1977 they finally tasted success with their cover of ā€œI Canā€™t Stand The Rainā€ which was a huge hit worldwide. Overnight they were all over radios and discos, even finding their way onto AIR and into our mixtapes. I first heard them in ā€˜78 I think, when my dad went to Hong Kong and came back with a bunch of Hong Kong bootleg cassettes for my sister and me. And then in 1978 came this super song ā€“ a cover of Neil Sedakaā€™s ā€œOne Way Ticketā€. An absolute must play at all our dance parties, Iā€™m certain that as you listen to it, every lyric of the song will pop into your mind!Ā  And then the eruption subsided and the bandā€™s songs regularly feature in compilations of Disco Classics, they havenā€™t troubled the compilers of Billboard Top 100 again. Shame, they had a good sound!

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