Long Island Sound

Garage scenester Blair Buscareno tipped me off to this video of the Mosquitos doing a Mersey-fied take on Ray Charles' "Unchain My Heart" circa '83 or early '84 that's a revelation for one who remembers this great Long Island power-pop band. I discovered them several months after this clip was taped, and booked them to play a dance at my high school in December '84. They later made a video that was shown on the late, lamented U68, a UHF music-video station that was driven out of business by MTV (which, if I remember correctly, refused to be on cable systems that carried U68).