Come on, we all know it ... Everybody have fun tonight, everybody
Wang Chung tonight. There. Don't you feel better getting that out of the
way? Darn catchy though, and a pretty brilliant move, putting the band
name in the hook of the song. We'll never, ever forget it.
The
bigger question is whether there's anything else to remember. And you
know, they actually aren't a one-hit wonder. If you'll remember, Dance
Hall Days was a pretty decent-sized hit, a couple of years before
Everybody Have Fun Tonight. And the follow-up to that monster, Let's
Go!, was also hit the Top 10, and it's a quite good track. Then there
was the soundtrack to the film To Live and Die in L.A., which produced a
decent title cut. So there's a few things there, and if you skip over
the ubiquitous you-know-what, this isn't a bad listen, even with that
glossy 80's production. A version of the group still tours the oldies
circuit, with pals Cutting Crew. Oh by the way, Wang Chung is the
Chinese phrase for yellow bell, the first note in their classical music
scale. Which makes no sense, "everybody yellow bell tonight." Go figure.
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