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Eye To Eye - "Nice Girls"

from the album Eye To Eye (1982)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #37 (two weeks)

Weeks in the top-40: 3

Today's Song of the day is by jazz-pop duo Eye To Eye, who came together in 1980 by keyboardist Julian Marshall and singer Deborah Berg. Marshall, an Englishman, was in the pop duo Marshall Hain in the late 70s, and had a minor hit with "Dancing In The City". Marshall met dancer Berg in California, and recruited her for the Eye to Eye project. Their first album had a jazzy sheen and vague presence that sprung rumors that it was Steely Dan reuniting (not unfounded, as it was produced by SD producer Gary Katz, and Donald Fagen guested on a track. The initial single, "Nice Girls", made the top-40, and helped the album peak in the upper half of the LP chart...

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(here's a version of the original video clip, though somehow it's cut off from the beginning...)

Their next album gave them one other minor hit, "Lucky" in 1983, but that's been it for them chartwise (they issued an independent album in 2005).

Up tomorrow: a British new-wave band does some romance addition...