Hang Up The Phone by Annie Golden

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Hang Up The Phone by Annie Golden

Posted: 4/11/08 at 1:27pm

Hol-eee crap! I remembered this video--which I saw maybe once--from 1984 and the song has stuck in my head for nigh these 24 (has it been that long?) years. It's from the now out of print soundtrack from SIXTEEN CANDLES.

So I look it up on Youtube on a lark and--lo and behold--not only is it there but its by Annie Golden!!! I had no idea! Anyways, enjoy this eighties flashback.
Hang Up The Phone

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re: Hang Up The Phone by Annie Golden

Posted: 4/11/08 at 1:30pm

LOVED that song. I only used to hear it on WLIR.

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re: Hang Up The Phone by Annie Golden

Posted: 4/11/08 at 1:31pm

damn that brings back memories!

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re: Hang Up The Phone by Annie Golden

Posted: 4/11/08 at 1:33pm

I remember thinking her voice was similar to Cyndi Lauper's. It was a great, catchy tune that should have been a bigger hit.

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re: Hang Up The Phone by Annie Golden

Posted: 4/11/08 at 1:35pm

I believe this came out right around the same time as "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" went through the roof, so I believe Miss Cyn may have stolen La Golden's thunder.

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re: Hang Up The Phone by Annie Golden

Posted: 4/11/08 at 1:37pm

I love those fun, silly, cheap videos from the '80s. Remember "Don't Put Another Dime in the Jukebox?" That was another fave.

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re: Hang Up The Phone by Annie Golden

Posted: 4/11/08 at 2:20pm

Oh yeah, that song has been in my brain for 20+ years, as has "When the Rain Begins to Fall" and "They Don't Know".

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re: Hang Up The Phone by Annie Golden

Posted: 4/11/08 at 2:27pm

I do love this song and had no idea it was by Annie Golden, but my favorite 80s song is probably "If You Leave" from Pretty In Pink. I never get tired of it! Just one of those things that makes bad days just that much better. ...if that makes any sense.

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re: Hang Up The Phone by Annie Golden

Posted: 4/11/08 at 3:47pm

She's hoping he's talking to a "he" not a "she"...mmm, how Liza of her.

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re: Hang Up The Phone by Annie Golden

Posted: 4/11/08 at 3:55pm

And he's wearing a pastel sweater with matching mittens...hmmmm.

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"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

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re: Hang Up The Phone by Annie Golden

Posted: 5/13/09 at 4:14pm

I loved Annie Golden since the movie "Hair". I still have an Lp of her group "The Shirts" from the early 80's. I need to pull that out now.

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#12

re: Hang Up The Phone by Annie Golden

Posted: 5/13/09 at 4:51pm

I loved her then and I still love her now.

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#13

re: Hang Up The Phone by Annie Golden

Posted: 5/13/09 at 4:55pm

PJ and I saw her at the After Party at the Laurie Beechman a few months ago, and she was wonderful.

Best-ever "Frank Mills"?

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re: Hang Up The Phone by Annie Golden

Posted: 5/14/09 at 10:37am

Is the the same Annie Golden from Xanadu??

She sounds EXACTLY like Cyndi!

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re: Hang Up The Phone by Annie Golden

Posted: 5/14/09 at 10:56am

"So Unusual" was released in 1983. This came out a year later and was a jump on the Cyndi bandwagon which didnt really work. She's great, tho.

Love the sweater mittens on the "boyfriend". Or is that someone else who needs to "hang up the phone?" It always confused me.

I love her Frank Mills too...and think it's stinky it was cut from the film.
Another great version is Kathleen Wilhoite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpKrY72T-Pc

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re: Hang Up The Phone by Annie Golden

Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:00pm

Yes, Parks---it's the same Annie Golden.

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re: Hang Up The Phone by Annie Golden

Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:16pm

She did this song at one of the Broadway Loves the 80s shows.

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re: Hang Up The Phone by Annie Golden

Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:50pm

She also did it for The Actor's Fund concert:

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