Blondie was a newspaper comic strip turned into a successful film series (28 movies were made between 1938 and 1950, starring actress Penny Singleton in the title role) created by artist Chic Young.
Whether it inspired the naming of any of the bands below is open to debate. The most famous of these apparently chose the name because of "comments made by truck drivers who catcalled "Hey, Blondie" to [the lead singer] as they drove past".
BLONDIE #1
Let's start in 1952 today with the Bernie Roberts Orchestra, and Bernie's sister Violet, AKA Blondie, on trumpet and vocals...
Bernie Roberts & Blondie - Wisconsin Polka
BLONDIE #2
From 1970, here's some authentic Jamaican reggae from a different Blondie...
Blondie with Barrington Williams and The Aces - Festival Time Again
BLONDIE #3
There can be only one winner this week...
Surely?
BLONDIE #4
From 1984, here's funky South African singer Blondie Makhene. As they say on the tube of you, "This is Blondie one of the many best songs to date." He was also a member of the duo Blondie & Pappa.
Amazing, Blondie Makhene has featured on this blog before... in a post promoting Martin's book!
BLONDY #5
Romanian pop duo, active between 2000 & 2005. They may be two blondes, but you still have to question their choice of bandname by this point in proceedings...
BLONDIE #6
From 2006, here's a Blondie on guitar with Polish punk band Pogotowie Seksualne. Dobre!
BLONDEE #7
German electronic DJ type who arrived on that scene just over ten years ago and clearly liked his Es.
BLONDIE #8
Sadly, I couldn't find this particular Blondie's 2016 EP Power Dogotronic anywhere online, but I wanted to include them anyway because I liked their picture on discogs.
BLONDI #9
Also from 2016, some Albanian pop from Blondi & Bubulina. Blondi is the bloke. Who doesn't appear to be blond.
Bubulina & Blondi - Sa Mir Po Dukesh
Do I even need to ask the questions?
Surely even the professional contrarians among you can only reach one conclusion this week...?
