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Ben Harney, When I First Saw You, 1981 Dreamgirls

Ben Harney, When I First Saw You Dreamgirls: Original Broadway Cast Album Dedicated To The Original Broadway 1981 Dreamgirls Cast Always Remeber and Love The Original Cast The Best jazz1979.wordpress.com

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Matt Finish ~ “Short Note” [1981]

ALL CREDITS Belong to Matt Finish the Band. Matt Finish heralded what was to be the beginning of the era of “great Australian bands of the 80s”. Posted as a ‘Tribute video’ using ‘photomontage’. No Copyright Infringements Intended in posting this Fanvid. Credits for pics. in vid: various well-known album covers; Kuranda Ampitheatre, Nth. Qld.; photographs-’still pics’. Matt Finish’s first album Short Note was released in February 1981 by Giant/CBS Records. The newly established Triple J national FM radio network played songs from Short Note nationally, followed by the commercial networks. Matt Finish are an Australian rock band formed by singer-songwriter/guitarist Matt Moffitt (1956 – 2003) and drummer/composer/producer John Prior in mid 1979[1][2] and reformed in 2009 by John with singer-songwriter/guitarist Glenn Bidmead and bassist Tom Ruki. The band’s debut album, Short Note, from 1981 peaked at #14 in the Australian albums charts.[3] The title song, Short Note peaked at #18 and went on to become a standard on Australian radio stations. It was recorded by Wendy Matthews and appeared on her 2004 album Caf Naturale, featured in Triple M Networks “Best Songs of the Eighties” poll in 2005, in the 2007 Australian feature film The Final Winter, on numerous compilation albums including Sony BMG’s The Essential Australian series released in April 2008; and a new recording of the song appears on Matt Finish’s 2008 anthology album 1978-2008. from Wikipedia : en.wikipedia.org

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FOR SALE 1981 MERCURY CAPRI With GT40

Car for sale(SOLD!), Old school GT40 crate motor, reworked C4, 3.55 gears, 6 point cage, BBK connectors, new Holley 630cfm carb, Flowmaster 2 chamber, MAC nickleplate shorties, Tubular upper and lower rear arms, BFG T/A radials, Best ET on street tires 12.7 109 mph babied out of the hole. THIS CAR DRAWS ATTENTION!!

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Colman’s Mustard commercial

From 1981

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1981 ABC Promo Best Of The West Thursday Night Football

Promo for ABC’s Thursday September 17, 1981 prime time lineup of “Best Of The West” and “Thursday Night Football”

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