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Following the success of 'Excitable' and 'Don't You Just Know It', Amazulu's cover version of the Chi-Lites 'Too Good To Be Forgotten' Made No. 5 in July 1986
Another song title that seems like it's asking for trouble - it's tempting to suggest in retrospect that this record is too forgotten to be good. Apparently Amazulu were at one point a serious ska band but by the time I remember them they were drifting into a covers act who seemed to be on children's TV all the time. Of course there's a venerable tradition of cover versions in ska and reggae and there's nothing wrong with being commercial, but something about this just rings too hollow. It probably doesn't help that the song itself is so self-satisfied in tone to start with.
Available on: True 80's Love
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