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Conference marvin::uk_music

Title:The UK Music Conference
Notice:Welcome (back) to UK_MUSIC on node MARVIN.
Moderator:RDGENG::CROOK
Created:Mon Mar 28 1988
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1381
Total number of notes:39269

826.0. "Wang Chung" by IOSG::HUNTD (millions of small people) Wed Apr 10 1991 20:41

    Does anyone know anything about a group called Wang Chunt?
    There is a song called Dance Hall Days on a tape I have called
    American Heartbeat.....
    
    I would be interested to know more about them.
    
    diana
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826.1LESLIE::EDMUNDSjoke (an item)Wed Apr 10 1991 21:045
    I don't know anything about them, but that track was a hit here about
    five years (I'm guessing) ago...
    
    
    Keith
826.2WELCLU::GREENBWhip it on me, JImThu Apr 11 1991 11:266
    Many years ago, they changed their name from Huang Chung (Chinese for
    'Yellow Bell'), after having no chart success at all with the mighty
    'Isn't It About Time They Were On TV?'. They also, to my mind, geared
    their sound much more to the US market.
    
    Bob
826.3RUTILE::LETCHERThu Apr 11 1991 14:026
    Dance Hall Days had a great video, and was a small hit in Paris in
    October 1986. But the song is from much earlier than that, from
    Huang Chung rather than Wang Chung days. 1983/4 maybe. While I was
    still in London, anyway.
    
    Piers
826.4More Trivia on yer Wang,Chung!MASALA::ISUTHERLANDThu Apr 11 1991 14:154
    
    They had a minor hit in 1982 with a song called "China",which I think,
    was their first single. "Dance Hall Days" was a hit in 1983.(Or was it
    late '82).
826.5TARKIN::OUELLETTEThe refrigerator lurked.Thu Apr 11 1991 18:032
They also had a single of the `To Live and Die in LA' soundtrack which they
did most of.  I think they wound up doing a couple other soundtracks as well.