Punkin Machine ‎– I Need You Tonight

The Suzy Q version (produced by the same guys) is better!

I love the idea of hits-that-never-were, records you hear these days and have the impression they were always big tunes when they actually went quite unnoticed at the time of their original release until someone dug them off the dust and made them classics 20 or 30 years later, boosted by the internet era.
One of the finest example of that is The Joubert Singers' "Stand On The Word" which every kid these days knows by heart and is nowadays a certified classic at weddings, when it was barely played outside the Zanzibar and a few confidential NYC clubs back in the days. Punkin Machine's "I Need You Tonight" is another typical example, played at many a flat party these days like an obvious, bona-fide early 80s discopop hit when it was actually quite obscure until James Murphy unearthed it on his FabricLive Mix in 2007. A nice little feelgood gem.