Comments on: Future Retro: Blue Angel with Cyndi Lauper

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:41:07 +0000

Living in northern Jersey, I turned 18 in 1976 and had the pleasure of seeing Blue Angel perform in clubs more times than I could count or remember. The first time was by chance. After that, I tried to catch them whenever possible.
I never became a fan of her solo career, but will always remember the good times I had seeing Blue Angel perform. I still have the album and picked up the CD when it first came out.
Too bad that second album was never released.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:41:07 +0000

By: mary

mary — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:06:11 +0000

I grew up with this album! One of my favs!

By: deltablues2

deltablues2 — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:12:06 +0000

I hope the reviews help people discover or rediscover artists and albums that they didn't know about or forgot about. That's the whole purpose of this column.

If you email me at deltablues2 I can give you more info on the demos and the second album.

By: Jeff B

Jeff B — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:58:22 +0000

Thanks for this review!! As someone too young to experience them live, I appreciate it. I've been a huge fan of Cyndi since I was old enough to buy cassettes, and was lucky enough to find a Blue Angel tape in the early '90's. I love her, and her talent shines through their one album. Would love to get ahold of the demos for the unreleased 2nd album….

By: Duncanmusic

Duncanmusic — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:26:42 +0000

I was very lucky to see Blue Angel 3 times during their lifetime. The first time was at the Red Creek Inn in Rochester, NY [where I was the resident DJ, sound & light man and MC] on a shared gig with Elektra's The Kings (from Toronto) which was a power pop fan's dream come true. I don't know why Blue Angel was on first,but they were transcendent and totally had me by the third song. (The Kings were very good also, truth be told, riding on their 'hit' “this Beat Goes On-Switching to Glide”). We got them back again several months later, then the next time they were in Rochester, they played at a much larger venue than our 250 seat club.

The band was VERY approachable and by the third time I saw them they were fast approaching being friends. I rememb er hanging out with them after they finished their opening set at the Triangle Theatre, their third gig in Rochester within a year. I remember Cyndi being pretty worn out by that time (off stage that is; she never let on while she was onstage that this constant low level slogging was beginning to wear her down). My memories of Blue Angel are very precious; they represented something a bit more mature than the teenage angst of punk to me…more of a reconnecting to the spirit of Rockabilly and Brill Building Pop I could relate to, being born in 1951. I was very sad that the band broke up, but happy for Cyndi's subsequent sucess. I continued to play their record quite regularly in my DJ sets for the next15+ years.
Lee Brovitz was from Rochester and a year or so down the line when Blue Angel fell apart I auditioned as a keyboard player for his next band. At the time I really did not have the equipment to pull it off nor the chops, but he wqas nice enough to give me the chance and didn't make me feel like too much of a fool..

By: Ocelopotamus — Blue Angel, Red Hot

Ocelopotamus — Blue Angel, Red Hot — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:40:08 +0000

[...] folks over at Popdose have a nice feature up about Cyndi Lauper’s early rockabilly band, Blue Angel, including a few songs from the sole Blue Angel album in Mavis Pickles the Third [...]

By: deltablues2

deltablues2 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:54:48 +0000

'Sho Nuff !

By: JohnHughes

JohnHughes — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:07:36 +0000

Fantastic album!

By: deltablues2

deltablues2 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:35:53 +0000

That's one of the main reasons I'm doing this column. I want people to know there's so much great, unheard music. Especially from their favorite artists. It seems that if a release doesn't get major promotion or get played to death on what passes for radio today then it simply doesn't have a chance. Plus, I hate when formerly famous acts are dismissed and even forgotten just because they don't have hits anymore.

Viva La Lauper !