Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Number 131: Missing Persons - Walking In L.A.


The final single released from Missing Persons' debut LP, Spring Session M, "Walking In L.A." was almost criminally ignored upon arrival in mid-1983, Managing just #70 on the US Hot 100. Dale Bozzio, Warren Cuccurullo, and crew would soldier on, releasing two more albums before disbanding, but they never recaptured the chart success of their early singles. "Walking In L.A." is a great song, however, with Bozzio's vocals in top form. It gets spot #131 on my Top 200.

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  1. Ah, Dale Bozzio... the second most bangable new wave singer of the 80s. But while #1 Terri Nunn was doing tasteful Playboy pictorals, Dale was doing full on split beaver shoots for Hustler. Always the crazy lady of new wave, Dale was last spotted doing hard time in a New Hampshire jail for being a crazy cat lady. But let's remember her as she would want to be remembered ... as the quirky slutty front woman of MP.

    http://seetimblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/today-in-growing-old-gracefully-dale.html

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  2. This song only reached #70? Really? Wow.

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    1. I know - it's crazy. In my opinion this song is their best by a mile.

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