Bonnie Hayes With The Wild Combo

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Bonnie Hayes is an American singer/songwriter/keyboardist from California, USA. Late 1970s and early 1980s In the late 1970s, she founded a New Wave band called The Punts, who released a 45 RPM single, "Shelly's Boyfriend" (a song inspired by her sister), b/w "Rochambeau," which received considerable airplay in the SF market. In 1982, the band changed their name to "Bonnie Hayes with the Wild Combo" and released their first album entitled Good Clean Fun, a New Wave/rock offering. The Good Clean Fun album was finally released on CD in September 2007. The song "Girls Like Me" from that album was used in the opening credits for the 1983 movie Valley Girl. Due perhaps to the label's (Slash) limited muscle, the record was only regionally successful, but stands as one of the first great punk/pop records, and as a signpost pointing to the later success of west coast punk/pop girl-fronted bands The Bangles, The Go-Go's and No Doubt. 1982 brought the release of "Brave New Girl", on Hayes' and producer Steve Savage's Bondage Records. This sophomore effort expands even further the broad musical range of "Good Clean Fun", ratcheting up the sophistication of the earlier release, in the material as well as the production. "After Hours" is a soaring ballad, while "Night Baseball" and "Brave New Girl" bring a distinctive power pop tilt to its new wave core and hint at things to come in Hayes' writing. Late 1980s and beyond Hayes signed with Chrysalis Records and, in 1987 released "Bonni

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