Live at Mainstreet

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Live at Mainstreet
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ReleasedJune 1983
Recorded1983
Genre Pop
Label Mushroom Records
The Dance Exponents chronology
Live at Mainstreet
(1983)
Prayers Be Answered
(1983)

Live At Mainstreet is the 1983 album by the New Zealand band The Dance Exponents, [1] recorded live at a May performance at the Mainstreet Cabaret for the Radio with Pictures TV show. [2] The B side of the album has songs by The Legionnaires. The album charted at #3 and spent nine weeks on the New Zealand Album Chart. [3] In May 2013, Universal Music re-released the six Dance Exponents tracks as a digital only Live At Mainstreet EP. [4]

Contents

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Airway Spies"
  2. "Perfect Romance"
  3. "My Date With You Was A Date With No One"
  4. "All I Can Do"
  5. "Gone Forever In Another Car"
  6. "Poland"

Side 2

  1. "I'm A Texan" (The Legionnaires)
  2. "No Mystery" (The Legionnaires)
  3. "Billy Bold" (The Legionnaires)
  4. "Blue Lady" (The Legionnaires)

Band members

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1983)Peak
position
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [5] 3

Year-end charts

Chart (1983)Position
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [6] 49

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