The Meldrum Tapes Molly Meldrum Interviews Cyndi Lauper from Countdown, aired September 14, 1986

A segment from the Australian music interview TV series The Meldrum Tapes, of which 24 episodes aired on the ABC in 1986. The Meldrum Tapes featured full length interviews that Countdown Talent CoOrdinator, Ian Molly Meldrum, conducted over his many overseas trips during the Countdown years, which aired on the ABC from 19741987. Where Countdown would feature a small part of the interview (constrained due to time), The Meldrum Tapes aired the interviews in full. Segments of this particular interview originally aired during the Countdown episode of September 16, 1986, on the ABC, the clip of which can be viewed here: This clip features an interview of American singer Cyndi Lauper conducted by Countdown Talent CoOrdinator Molly Meldrum in Tokyo, Japan. The interview begins with a discussion about the beginning of Cyndi s music career, which she explains started at the age of two, where her parents would get her to sing Italian songs (her moth