We scour piles of old 45s for the very best in all Rock'n'roll and soul genres to feature snippets in our online jukebox. This podcast gets the jukebox to you in a great new way.
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Heartbeat by Taana Gardner
Label: West End 1232
Year: 1981
Condition: M
Price: $14.00
From a warehouse find, this is a new, unplayed stock copy. This rare, super-sexy dance number deserves to be better known than it is. Those who do know apparently don't tell, because the copies that do exist are pretty hard to come by. Well, not me. I was blown away by the tune and quickly stuck an mp3 snippet in the Classic 45's jukebox for everyone to enjoy. :-) One of the really interesting things is how much this singer sounds like Madonna, who hadn't yet hit the scene nationally... in fact, it wasn't until 1983 that Madonna exploded into pop radio. The B side has a much longer (6:30) version of the song. This appears to have been a non-album single. Note: This beautiful 45 has no notable flaws, grading Mint across the board (Labels, Vinyl, Audio).