Bonnie Hayes is an American singer/songwriter/keyboardist from California, USA.
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 of...
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Bonnie Hayes is an American singer/songwriter/keyboardist from California, USA.
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. Perhaps because of 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...
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