# I need the name of an 80's dance song...

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 1, 2001, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-the-name-of-an-80s-dance-song/84842 "2001-10-01T21:43:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-the-name-of-an-80s-dance-song/84842/41 "2019-08-29T03:01:11Z")

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I have nothing to add. I just want to post so I’m a part of this thread when it gets bumped in 5 years.

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**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-the-name-of-an-80s-dance-song/84842/42 "2019-08-29T03:07:12Z")

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Could you have mistaken a male voice for a female one?

New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7uEBuqkkQRk](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7uEBuqkkQRk)

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**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-the-name-of-an-80s-dance-song/84842/43 "2019-08-29T13:50:26Z")

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Herb Alpert’s [Keep Your Eyes on Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwzPxwtL0A) is from 1987 and has a xylophone in the middle?

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**Author:** ![chancetx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@chancetx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chancetx)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-the-name-of-an-80s-dance-song/84842/44 "2019-09-02T08:43:32Z")

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Long shot: [Never Can Say Goodbye](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAGZyIWIChE) by The Communards. Jimmy Somerville could be mistaken for a woman and the synthesizers have a xylophone quality.

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**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-the-name-of-an-80s-dance-song/84842/45 "2019-09-03T14:18:35Z")

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> [@snowthx](#):
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> NSFW…
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> File 13 - [Taste So Good](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZTFD_NgyCc).
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> I wonder where Tammy is today.

That would depend on which Tammy you mean.

According to Double Dee and Steinski (AKA David Witz and Doug DiFranco)

[Making: Taste So Good By File 13](https://ddski.com/making-file-13-taste-so-good)

> [@](#):
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> In pre-production we realized we had problems using the original phone calls. They obviously belong to somebody and the quality was sketchy at best. So we decided to find a few actresses to replay the parts along with some additional lines. We settled on two women, one was a voice over actress the other colorful character worked as receptionist at a very hot NYC studio. We had a great time recording the lines and replaced the originals with the new on the 8-track tape.

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