Product Code: EMC 307
Artist: Pseudo Echo ‎
Origin: New Zealand
Label: EMI (1987)
Format: LP
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Condition:
Cover: VG+
Record: NM (M-)
Genre: Electronic , Pop , Rock U

Funky Town

Very smart clean vinyl with a nice crisp cover.

In 1986, "Funkytown" was covered by Australian band Pseudo Echo, who gave the song a different sound, with a guitar solo in the middle of their version. Pseudo Echo's version spent seven weeks at no. 1 in Australia (Lipps Inc.'s was at no. 1 for only two weeks in Australia), and was also a no. 6 US hit in July of the following year, and in August a no. 1 hit in Canada. Mirroring Lipps Inc's experience, Pseudo Echo's version was that group's only US Top 40 hit. This version of "Funky Town" by Pseudo Echo was played in the 1987 sequel comedy film Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise.