This score reminded me of the line by Darryl of Storage Wars, “You never know when you’re going to find something big…”, referring to a excellent treasure in the most unlikely of sources. I found this treasure at the tail end of digging at two different stores. I was tired, and the second store had a really long aisle packed with records, too many for me to ever go through at one time. I almost missed the shopping cart at the end of the aisle. This was likely the new additions.
A bunch of 80s-90s movie soundtracks in really good condition, and I should have bought Backdraft, because it contains the Theme to Iron Chef. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. But screw Backdraft, one of the very last flips was this. Passion by the Flirts! And it was in mint condition!
Of great interest to the highly fanatical group known as Pet Shop Boys collectors, this single was produced by Bobby “O” Orlando, who not only influenced the boys with this track – one of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s favorites – but went on to produce their first singles before they replaced him with Stephen Hague (who really kicked it up a notch, sorry Bobby). Few have heard the original version of West End Girls produced by Bobby “O”, and finding that in a thrift store would be a “shit your pants” moment.