Passengers
Passengers (Italian LP)
Durium Records (Italy) / 1979 / DAI 30334
LP-album 33 ⅓ rpm vinyl record
Genre: Dance
Direction & Arrangements : Celso Valli
Side A
1. Hot Leather / 10.40 / 129 BPM
2. Girls Cost Money / 6.00 / 129 BPM
Side B
1. He's Speedy Like Gonzales / 6.45 / 123 BPM
2. I'll Be Standing Beside You / 8.20 / 124 BPM
Hot Leather by the Passengers is the standout single release from this little known album picked up on holiday in Italy at the time of release. The other 3 songs are all standout good fun tracks though. Typical Celso Valli in a Tantra stylie with more of a commercial edge. He's Speedy Like Gonzalez being a particularly catchy tune, one of those tunes that just racks on the brain far longer than you would normally like it to.
Listen to Hot Leather by Passengers:
Girls Cost Money:
Listen to He's Speedy Like Gonzales:
I'll Be Standing Beside You:
Submitted by Sparky (15)
The cutting edge of 1980 bubble gum...laced with LSD, that is!
The "Hot Leather" mix is the grittier, one that hooks you with the sound o a helicopter blade whirring right over your head.
The rest of the album is what it is, but this is a brilliant moment of synthesizer arrangement.