Gene And Wendell

This is what happens when you pick things up everywhere, including soundtracks. The music is authentic; the context is not.

No matter, it’s the music that I preserve, from one of the more obscure duos in my prodigious collection. They never had a hit, not on the pop charts anyway. I don’t know about the others.

The soundtrack, by the way, was Hairspray.

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Gene And Wendell:

• The Roach – One of the more bizarre dance concepts of its era, one apparently danced the roach, at least in part, by squishing phantom bugs on the floor. No stranger than YMCA I suppose…