Welcome to Eighties Week!

Yesterday's cleaning-the-bathroom-with-Yazoo experience surely should have tipped you off... We're wallowing in nostalgia this week!
Actually, I am unearthing some songs I haven't heard in ages, placing them on the iPod, and remembering those halcyon days in college.
You read right... it's Route 1's EIGHTIES WEEK!
This morning I have been listening to the song that proves there is hipster cred in everybody... even Bananarama.
I have been listening to their 1981 debut single "Aie a Mwana" on the iPod this morning. The story goes that the three lasses of Bananarama were living above a rehearsal space used by ex-Sex Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook. Cook agreed to produce a single for the girls and "Aie a Mwana" was the result.
A pop song sung in Swahili was never destined for the UK charts, but it became an underground hit and generated enough of a buzz that the trio were soon singing with Fun Boy Three and well on their way to massive chart success with the likes of "Cruel Summer" and "Robert De Niro's Waiting."
It all started with a little ditty in Swahili. Who knew?