Aneka ~ Japanese Boy 1981 Disco Purrfection Version

Mary Sandeman (b. 1947) is a well respected Gaelic singer of traditional Irish music whose clear as a bell voice and her stately appearance garnered her a record contract in 1979. Ret Records released her first LP “Introducing Mary Sandeman“ that same year and it was full of Irish folk music. She met Bobbie Heatlie who arranged her folk music and just for fun she challenged him to write her a song to see if she could have some success on the pop charts. She was six feet tall, spoke in a posh voice and was the wife of a small town general practitioner doctor so Bobbie didn’t believe that it would work out so he kept promising to write her something. Finally one day, she called him to say the studio was booked and be ready to record. He hoped that she would give up but when she persisted he got busy writing starting with the chorus and cannibalizing parts of other songs he had been working on turning the Frankenstein concoction into a coherent demo that every label turned down exc