Song #328: "Tarzan Boy"--Baltimora (1985)

As 1985 closed and 1986 began, up at college on stations like 99 GFM and Fly 92, both in Albany, New York, we got our first listen of the group Baltimora, whose chart success lasted as long as the chart life of today's tune.

It's another one-hit wonder from that middle stretch of the 1980's where there seemed to be a thousand "groups" consisting of two to five guys with long hair, make-up, usually from outside the United States, playing the same style of music. People weren't able to keep up with all of them.

"Are you sure Pet Shop Boys don't sing this song?"
"What about Blow Monkeys or OMD?"

That's the way it was for a few years. Luckily, out of all of it we received some good music, and "Tarzan Boy" certainly ranks as one of them. Enjoy the extended version posted below. Oh, yeah, everyone had extended or 12-inch single versions, too. To add to all the uncertainty. And the singles that were now the same size as albums. They took up more space in the already crammed office of the radio station music director. But I digress.... :) :) :)