Jeff Wieczorek wrote:
>If anyone can help me with this, it will be the folks on this list.
>The timeframe is 1981 - 1983.  I made a mix tape with *somebody's*
>version of On a Carousel.  It starts off with synth string patch, and
>then a male voice joins in and sings the first verse.  Not until the
>chorus does the rest of the band join in with keys, guitars, and drums.

I go with Craig that it's Glass Moon - from Raleigh NC. Original Glass 
Moon guitarist John Wheelis (gone well before the recording contract) 
was simply amazing. And his 11th grade band (name forgotten) performed 
a jaw-dropping Eight Miles High.

 - michael