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I'll Say Goodbye (Even Though I'm Blue)
The Exponents / Dance Exponents , Music Video – 1983
from the album Prayers Be Answered (1983)A young, blonde and big-haired (it was the early 80s) Jordan Luck and his fellow band members hang out in Auckland's old Leopard Tavern for this sing-along classic. Model Debra Mains — star of a number of DD Smash videos of the time — smoulders as the spurning lover. A rest-home of elderly extras join in for the famous chorus. The dial phone looks positively pre-industrial. The song was voted number 89 in the APRA Top 100 New Zealand songs of all time; the Dance Exponents' debut studio album Prayers Be Answered stayed in the charts for a year.
Key Cast & Crew
Tom Parkinson
Debra Mains
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