Summer Gold: Dollar's 'Who Were You With in the Moonlight'

Definitely one of the album's highlights in a sea of 'em. To go back to earlier documented interests, the song features 40 seconds of otherwise unconnected/unrevisited intro, in which DJ can bung in a very long discussion about stealing knickers off the line, sniffing them, wearing them, and the weather, then say something about mysterious oft-referred to, never evident, running joke cohost 'who were you with in the moonlight, Mrs Terrapin?' etc.

The song sounds so modern, and yet alien as all get out. There are a few ideas put forward: you were with someone in the moonlight; you deny that I (singer) have any right to know/any right to you; you are (or the experience was) 'making me so sad'. I think that's about it. As I mentioned a few days ago, what really freaks me out is how happy Dollar look as they sing this awful, horrible story to each other. Thereza Bazar might well feel a little out of place in this, essentially a David Van Day solo outing, although she had her moments in other times and places so fair's fair.

This record was top ten in the UK but didn't get a sniff in Australia, despite the fact that it was released on the notably exciting* Acrobat label and also, apparently, as a picture disc!

Dollar seem so often to be relegated to a footnote in other stories, for instance, the story of Trevor Horn's ascension and the employment of Horn to work with ABC on Lexicon of Love. Well that is important but I want a copy of The Dollar Album please. This matters.

* Not notably exciting at all, sorry.