Ah, the '70s!

For this evening’s “music night” at The Wild Reed I share a classic Australian pop hit from 1975. Yes, it’s “Denim and Lace” by Marty Rhone.

In the video below, Rhone is performing (okay, lip-synching - as was the practice back then) “Denim and Lace” on the popular weekly Australian music show, Countdown (1974-1987). For most kids growing up in Australia at that time, Countdown was a show not to be missed. And as a little gay boy way back then, I was quite taken by the handsome Marty Rhone. But then who wouldn’t appreciate that beautiful smile, that hair, those clothes, and those goofy but endearing dance moves! Ah, the ’70s!

Hey, there you go
pretending you are fancy free.
But you don’t know,
one day you are gonna be with me,
Yes, with me . . .

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
A Lesson from Play School
One of These Boys . . .


Musical artists previously featured at The Wild Reed:
Don Henley, Propeller Heads and Shirley Bassey, Stephen Gately, Nat King Cole, Enrique Iglesias, Helen Reddy, Australian Crawl, PJ and Duncan, Cass Elliot, The Church, Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield, Wall of Voodoo, Stephen “Tin Tin” Duffy, Pink Floyd, Kate Ceberano, Judith Durham, Wendy Matthews, Buffy Sainte-Marie, 1927, Mavis Staples, Maxwell, Joan Baez, Dave Stewart & Friends, Tee Set, Darren Hayes, Suede, Wet, Wet, Wet, Engelbert Humperdinck, The Cruel Sea, Shirley Bassey, Loretta Lynn & Jack White, Maria Callas, Foo Fighters, Rosanne Cash, Jenny Morris, Scissor Sisters, Kate Bush, Rufus Wainwright, and Dusty Springfield.