Does anyone remember the Tenants? According to All Music Guide “songwriters Andy McLean and Gary Brown formed the Tenants with keyboard player Fraser MacDougall, drummer Derek Gassyt and bassist Lewis Mele. The group signed with CBS and released a self-titled album in 1983; they broke up a year later.”

That one album (CBS 25541) doesn’t appear to be available on CD. Anybody got the vinyl? Wanna post a few songs?

A little more memorable to most people are Hothouse Flowers. I saw them in 1990 at a little club in Syracuse, NY; as I recall it was on the corner of Erie Boulevard and Thompson Road but the name escapes me. HHF played in front of about 50 people and they were smokin’.

They did four terrific records on London/Polygram, including Songs From The Rain, which contained these three tunes:

Hothouse Flowers – An Emotional Time

Hothouse Flowers – Be Good

Hothouse Flowers – One Tongue

These are copied from cassette; get a better copy at Amazon.

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