A sample of some obscure – and some maybe not obscure – tunes from my strange and off-the-wall collection.

Today’s selection: Boys Don't Cry - "I Wanna Be A Cowboy" 1985

Inspired by Clint Eastwood westerns. The band wrote the entire song in about an hour on a Sunday, recorded it, and spent three hours mixing it.

The band's only "hit"; #1 in New Zealand, #4 in Australia, #11 in South Africa, and #12 on the US. Only #77 in native Great Britain.

"The song was meant to be a joke and to make people laugh, but also we thought it would make a great dance track. That turned out to be true"

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