Old Enough to Forget

From the catalogue of one hit wonders I present for your reading pleasure Taco. Taco Ockerse is probably best known (who am I kidding, this is all he's known for) for his 1982 hit "Puttin' on the Ritz" which was kitschy fun. As a rock guy it wasn't cool to admit you liked it, but the song was ridiculously infectious even if it was a tad too long, but hey, it was still a hit, and not just a hit, a worldwide hit. Here in Canada the single moved over 100,000 copies and in the US it was a million seller. Irving Berlin, who was 95 when Taco released his cover, was the oldest living songwriter to have a top 10 hit in the States. Despite the success of the single, it didn't seem to pull the album along with it. After Eight is an odd record. It's an uneven mix of re-imagined standards with a new wave twist to original compositions that fall into crooner territory with a programmed drum beat. I'll give him credit, it was ambitious. Did it work? Well, it's...