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Q-FEEL - Dancing In Heaven (Orbital Be-Bop) (1982)
Unsurpassably sunny ’80s cheese with a chorus you’ll be singing at the bus stop tomorrow. I’m looking into local karaoke joints that may have it in their database.
This is about as idiotically chipper as new wave ever got, barring occasional Motown-styled throw-downs like “Tenderness” and “Walking On Sunshine.” Amazing bassline, quality vocals, and a tremendous telegraphing chorus that’s all-earworm, all-fluff. The Buck Rogers backing girls know the score. Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow.
Q-Feel were a blink-and-you’ll-miss-‘em studio outfit thrown together to compete in the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest, where this earworm of a tune finished a measly sixth-place in the British pre-selection process. That’s where this clip comes from, by the way: the A Song For Europe television special.
Q-Feel signed to Jive Records and released one album in 1983. Its excellent six-minute version of “Dancing In Heaven (Orbital Be-Bop)” often crops up on ’80s comps. It’s worth a listen, because that chorus goes on forever.
The single failed to chart in 1982-83, but a remix made #75 U.S. seven years later.
