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Raised On Radio #8 - Paul Lekakis
May. 10th, 2012 05:29 pmI couldn't compile a list without mentioning 1987's Paul Lekakis hit "Boom Boom (Let's Go Back to my Room)".
I was 13 in a very Conservative part of the country (we still have blue laws) and a very Conservative family.
This is the first song I ever remember hearing that was bout y'know.. doing it.
Now, this was after such subtle tunes like "Dancing in the Sheets" and "Relax", but "Boom Boom" really spelled it out. No room for confusion.
The song reached only #43 and Lekakis's career was downhill from there.
At the time, I appreciated that full of sexual bravado shirtless musclebound Lekakis was a man's man, but of course, it was much later that I discovered that he was really a man's man. I also wasn't familiar with the concept of a 'one hit wonder', but I think even then, I knew we wouldn't hear from him again.
I was 13 in a very Conservative part of the country (we still have blue laws) and a very Conservative family.
This is the first song I ever remember hearing that was bout y'know.. doing it.
Now, this was after such subtle tunes like "Dancing in the Sheets" and "Relax", but "Boom Boom" really spelled it out. No room for confusion.
The song reached only #43 and Lekakis's career was downhill from there.
At the time, I appreciated that full of sexual bravado shirtless musclebound Lekakis was a man's man, but of course, it was much later that I discovered that he was really a man's man. I also wasn't familiar with the concept of a 'one hit wonder', but I think even then, I knew we wouldn't hear from him again.
