Happy Rhodes
Last modified:
Sunday, 14 August, 2016
Happy Rhodes is an independent alternative
singer/song-writer from upstate New York. I first heard about her music back in 1990
when it was discussed at length in the Usenet Kate Bush newsgroup rec.music.gaffa.
Discussed at such length, indeed, that a mailing list was spawned early in 1991 to
provide a dedicated corner of cyberspace for the increasing numbers of interested music-lovers. Thus was the Ecto mailing list (named after Happy's fourth album) born.
For a while in the
early 1990s there was an IRC channel associated with the Ecto mailing list, called
(unsurprisingly) #Ecto. During 1994 I spent a lot of time hanging out on #Ecto
and
used to offer to send a sampler tape
to interested people who wandered into the channel in an attempt to spread the
word about Happy's music. It was through this that I first got
to know the
woman who would become my wife,
Lisa.
Happy made her recording debut
in 1984 and released ten albums over a period of fifteen years:
Rhodes I (1984)
-- a compliation of previously-released songs (some in alternative versions) together with one new song, 'Summer', and a delightful cover of Bowie's 'Ashes to Ashes'
-- for the most part, a compilation of alternative versions of previously-released songs
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