Back when record stores were a thing, I went into a Tower Records looking for a copy of "Major Tom" by Peter Schilling. The staffer there snottily informed me that it was "2001 Space Oddity" and it was by David Bowie, and I had to explain to him that, no, it was the sequel by a German dude. He didn't believe me until I actually found it on a collection of 80's synth-pop hits in the odds-and-ends crate.
I believe that of a US store. I'm guessing that song didn't get a lot of traction there. Nice that we now can pull the songs up on our phones to put an end to that attitude!
Back when record stores were a thing, I went into a Tower Records looking for a copy of "Major Tom" by Peter Schilling. The staffer there snottily informed me that it was "2001 Space Oddity" and it was by David Bowie, and I had to explain to him that, no, it was the sequel by a German dude. He didn't believe me until I actually found it on a collection of 80's synth-pop hits in the odds-and-ends crate.
I believe that of a US store. I'm guessing that song didn't get a lot of traction there. Nice that we now can pull the songs up on our phones to put an end to that attitude!
It was actually big on the club circuit. I'm grateful for youtube, I find all kinds of stuff we wouldn't know about otherwise.
Where are you based?
I'm in Toronto.