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Hello Sandy Allen

Certain Songs #2428: Split Enz – “Hello Sandy Allen”

August 23, 2022 by Jim Connelly

Album: Time and Tide
Year: 1982

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While “I Got You” was their biggest and most enduring song, the Split Enz song that I well and truly loved the most was 1982’s much-more-obscure “Hello Sandy Allen,” which was based upon a true story. In 1981, Split Enz was a guest on Tom Synder’s Tomorrow show — Snyder had a shit-ton of punk and new wave artists on in those years — and the titular Sandy Allen was also a guest.

Neil Finn was so taken with Sandy Allen, he wrote a song about her. And it goes a little something like this:

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