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From: barth@tellab1.UUCP (Barth Richards)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: "Hounds of Love" at number one!
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Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 14:20:55 EDT
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Keywords: Kate Bush, Boston radio

In article <21@mit-eddie.UUCP> nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) writes:

>What's really scary is that she's suddenly become a *huge* success in
>Boston!  "Running Up That Hill" has been the number one song for a month
>on the commercial radio station I listen to sometimes (WFNX).  It became
>the number one video within a week of appearing on WVJV, the music video
>TV station around here.  They are playing it all over the stupid AOR
>station and the even worse disco radio station.  I've seen TV
>commercials for "Hounds of Love"!  I've seen TV commercials that use the
>music for "Running Up That Hill" as the background music!  I saw a
>half-page ad for "Hounds of Love" in a newspaper with the slogan "A
>Rising Star"!  The pop record chain store around here is having a
>special sale where they stay open past midnight for a week and "Hounds
>of Love" is their featured album!  They even mentioned Kate Bush on
>Entertainment Tonight!
>
>I'm starting to get worried!
>
>
>P.S.  Then again, Boston might not be very representative of the U.S. in
>general.

  INDEED!  Any major city in which The Dark can have a top ten single
  (JUDY, at least that's what I was told) can't be terriblly typical.

  BTW, what are The Dark doing now. The last I heard from them was the
  DON'T FEED THE FASHION SHARKS ep.

				    Barth Richards
				    Tellabs, Inc.
				    Lisle, IL

				    "If God's up there, we're his excrement."
				    -Ron Geesin