SOLVED: Can someone please help with 70s/80s Let's Dance song?

Thread: SOLVED: Can someone please help with 70s/80s Let's Dance song?

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  1. Pyridine said:

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    Hi all,

    Looking for a 70s/80s pop song. I wrote the chorus down when I heard it on the car radio ('oldies' radio in rural Australia) but have lost it. What I can remember is:

    Fake 'brass' sounding synth, a tacky sounding electric guitar and drums are in the background, and it's a fast-ish song in 2/4 time (e.g. kick, snare, kick, snare) similar speed and style to the music in Nutbush City Limits. A man with a deep voice (a la Brian Ferry) is the only singer, and he says something like 'when all is said and done/there's nothing else to do/nothing left to do (or something like that) ...well let's dance' in the chorus. He may say 'the last dance' but it's definitely ' ???? dance.' He repeats the 'let's dance' line a couple of times, and at the end of the song there's a few minutes or so of just the brass synth and guitar. The fake brass has a silly little riff each time he says 'well let's dance.'

    I use FL Studio so I've created what I remember the music in the chorus to go like:
    https://soundcloud.com/kerosene_dish/80s
     
  2. wurzlsepp said:

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    Reminds me of Chris Rea - Let's Dance
    Also the "Let's dance" in chorus would go with it
     
  3. Pyridine said:

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    Oh wow. That's what I get for being born in the late 80s and growing up with 70s, 80s and 90s music. Never quite sure whether songs are actually old when I was listening to them or not. Thanks!