Call Your Carribean Queen And Get Ready To Set Sail On The Mighty Ocean That Is Billy!

Things you've never read, "Skull Found In Ditch Outside Billy Ocean Concert" "Billy Ocean Starts Bar Fight" or "Bus Full Of Nuns Driven Into Canyon, Confused Billy Ocean Taken Into Custody." That Billy, he's just a nice guy making some nice music. And ain't nothing wrong with that.

"Oh, Billy, next to the Atlantic and The Pacific, you are my favorite ocean." --- J.D. from Scrubs.

1984, and the guy burning up the charts is a tiny, unassuming dude who real name is Leslie. Mr Charles, if you're nasty. Which is something our Billy is certainly not, even if he did want the girl in that one song to "touch his bumper." This fella, born in Trinidad and Tobago by way of the very polite Essex, England, came out of nowhere and spent half a decade tossing very nice toe tappers up the charts. Not bad for a guy who looked like Lionel Richie's accountant. Today's tune kicked it all off for eighties Billy, hitting number one the world wide. It's actual a pretty clever, fun production, bearing the Ocean trademark of using various sound effects throughout the tune, this one featuring laser beams, I think a lion roar, the Vinnie Price laugh from "Thriller" and one big sniff/ahhhhh! on the line about smelling her perfume. It's simply "awesome." In a very very nice polite way.

And it's your K-101.7 SONG OF THE DAY!

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