Baltimora - Survivor In Love

Baltimora

Survivor In Love

1987

Italo Disco Synthpop

Italy

Tracklist:


1. "Key Key Karimba"  
2. "Global Love" (featuring Linda Wesley)
3. "Jimmy's Guitar"  
4. "Come on Strike"  
5. "Set Me Free"  
6. "Survivor in Love"  
7. "Call Me in the Heart of the Night"  
8. "Eye to Eye"


     Baltimora were an Italian Synthpop Italo-Disco outfit active in the mid to late 1980s. The group comprised Jimmy McShane (frontman/vocals), Maurizio Bassi (keyboards, vocals), Giorgio Cocilovo (lead guitar), Claudio Bazzari (rhythm guitar), Pier Michelatti (bass guitar) and Gabriele Melotti (drums). They are best known for their 1985 hit single "Tarzan Boy".
     Jimmy McShane, from Derry in Northern Ireland, was the frontman of the group. Some sources state lead vocals were performed by Maurizio Bassi (with Jimmy actually providing the backing vocals), including lead vocals on their biggest hit "Tarzan Boy" despite the fact that McShane lip synched while appearing in the "Tarzan Boy" music video and not Bassi, who was also the group's keyboardist although this still remains uncertain. Both the music and the lyrics of Baltimora were written mostly by Bassi and Naimy Hackett, though McShane wrote the lyrics to some of their songs, such as the single "Survivor in Love".
     Baltimora are often considered a one-hit wonder in the United Kingdom and the United States due to the success they experienced with "Tarzan Boy" compared to their other singles. In a lot of other European countries, the group had more success.
     Survivor in Love is the second and final album by pop group Baltimora. The album was only released in select countries, such as Italy, Germany, UK, Japan, and Mexico. It was later re-released in 2003 on CD to many more countries, including the United States and Canada due to the current dance/pop uprise in recent years, as well as for Baltimora fans who hadn't received the original LP in their home countries. The reason the album wasn't released in certain countries in 1987 was due to the poor sales of the singles (except Tarzan Boy) on the group's previous album, Living in the Background.
     "Key Key Karimba", "Global Love" and "Call Me in the Heart of the Night" were released as singles from the album.
     After the release of Survivor in Love, with no label support of a follow up album and due to its poor success, Bassi decided it was time to move onto other projects, and Baltimora disbanded.

Shooting Party - I Go to Pieces 12''

Shooting Party

I Go To Pieces 12''

1989

Italo Disco Synthpop

????

Tracklist:


01 - I Go To Pieces (Extended)     5:54
02 - Things That You Do     3:31
03 - I Go To Pieces (Instrumental)     4:30

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Lorraine McKane - Let The Night Take The Blame 12''

Lorraine McKane

Let The Night Take The Blame 12''

1984

Italo Disco Eurodance

????

Tracklist:

01. Let The Night Take The Blame (Extended mix)
02. Let The Night Take The Blame (Instrumental)

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Fun Fun - Have Fun

Fun Fun

Have Fun

1984

Synthpop Italo Disco

Italy

Tracklist:


01.Give Me Your Love 7:43
02.Sing Another Song 5:03
03.Tell Me 4:54
04.Living In Japan 5:15
05.Color My Love 7:22
06.Give A Little Love Again 7:07
07.Happy Station 5:55


     Fun Fun were a popular Italian High Energy/synth pop musical group during the 1980s. Their hits included "Colour My Love" and "Baila Bolero".
     Producers Dario Raimondi and Alvaro Ugolini teamed up with studio vocalists Antonella Pepe, Angela Parisi and Ivana Spagna to create a bouncy, high-energy, dancefloor-friendly sound. Their first release, 1983's "Happy Station", found success in Italy and other parts of Europe, thanks to several extended versions, including the notorious "Scratch" version.
     Upon receiving invitations for live performances, Raimondi and Ugolini decided to use models for Fun Fun's public image rather than the vocalists themselves, a common tactic used in the European dance music scene by artists like Baltimora and The Real McCoy. "Have Fun!", the band's first full album from 1984, featured Francesca Merola and Roberta Servelli as the on-stage faces for the group. "Have Fun!" featured other popular dance singles, including "Give Me Your Love," "Living In Japan" and the band's oft-covered signature hit "Colour My Love", which became popular in American nightclubs because of its insistent synth bassline and easily-mixable percussion intro.
     After "Have Fun!", Spagna left Fun Fun and started a solo career, returning for occasional lyrical contributions. Fun Fun continued on with Merola and Elena Trastulli (who replaced Servelli) as models and a new musician/producer Larry Pignagnoli, releasing a second album, 1987's "Double Fun". "Double Fun" had several singles, including "Could This Be Love" and a cover of Spencer Davis Group's "Gimme Some Lovin'." However, the biggest hit from "Double Fun" was "Baila Bolero", a Spanish-flavored dance ballad. A megamix featuring most of the group's major hits, the "Mega Hit Mix", was released on a 12" single soon afterward.
     As the Italo-Disco and High-Energy music scene decreased in popularity toward the end of the 1980s, Fun Fun tried a new direction in 1989 with the House style single "Give Me Love", which had only minimal success. Several years later, the band released its last original song, "I'm Needin' You", in a 90's Eurodance style, to equally minimal success. Since then, the only Fun Fun releases have been best-of compilations or DJ remixes/reconstructions of their previous hits.

     Discography

     Singles
1983 - Happy Station [#11 Germany, #4 Netherlands]
1984 - Colour My Love [#17 Germany, #6 Sweden, #10 Netherlands]
1984 - Give Me Your Love [#17 Germany, #18 Sweden, #25 Netherlands, #10 Switzerland]
1985 - Living In Japan
1985 - Sing Another Song
1985 - Tell Me
1986 - Baila Bolero [#22 Germany, #16 Switzerland, #17 Netherlands]
1987 - Gimme Some Lovin'
1987 - Could This be Love
1987 - Mega Hit Mix [#5 Netherlands]
1989 - Give Me Love
1994 - I'm Needin' You
     Full albums
1984 - Have Fun!
1987 - Double Fun

Sign System - Burning Down

Sign System

Burning Down

1985

Synthpop Italo Disco

Germany

Tracklist:


01 Man On The Run
02 On Fire
03 Stay With Me
04 Game Of Love
05 You'll Never Change My Mind
06 Unknown Town
07 Burning Down
08 Nobody Knows The Answer
09 Sweet Love
10 Hard Work


Daryl Van Raalte-bass/Michael Adam Admitz-PPG programming/Wolfgang Schlitzer-keyb./Ian Wilson-rhythm guitar, backing vocal/Michael Rolke-sax on track 08/Jürgen Pluta-bass on track 03/All Songs Arranged by Sign System

     The members of Deo weren't profi musicians,all they had civil jobs.Harald Hoffmann was a photographer, Klaus Kranz was electrotechnician, Andreas Pasieka studied social pedagogy and Christoph Aengenheyster studied Latin and Greek.Deo has only one released album.

     They reformed the band in 1984 under a new name,Sign System.The members were the same,but everything else changed around them.Their new label was Bellaphon with a new producer Ian Wilson (produced also Vasco Rossi),the new musical style was Synth-pop, Disco,Italo with english texts only.Their biggest hit was the Secret Service-like "Stay with me" (1984), appeared also on "I love Italo Disco vol.33" .I think the other songs are good too.Nothing punk or new wave,but nice easy-listening songs with typical 80's sound.
     They made only one album.

Bad Boys Blue - Hot Girls, Bad Boys

Bad Boys Blue

Hot Girls, Bad Boys

1985

Italo Disco Pop Eurodance

Germany

Tracklist:


1 You're A Woman
2 I Live
3 Pretty Young Girl
4 L.O.V.E. In My Car
5 Kiss You All Over, Baby
6 Hot Girls - Bad Boys
7 For Your Love
8 People Of The Night


     Bad Boys Blue are a multinational pop group that was formed in Cologne, Germany. The group performed many international hits including You're a Woman, Pretty Young Girl, I Wanna Hear Your Heartbeat and Come Back and Stay.
     Bad Boys Blue was formed in the summer of 1984 by German producer Tony Hendrik and his lyricist wife Karin van Haaren. The original trio was composed of British Trevor "Supa T" Taylor born in Birmingham, England; the original lead vocalist, British John McInerney; the lead singer since 1987, and American Andrew Thomas. The debut single L.O.V.E. In My Car failed to make an impression in the pop charts but the follow-up You're A Woman was a success, reaching the top 10 in many European countries.
     Trevor Taylor - the original lead singer of Bad Boys Blue - died of a heart attack in his home in Cologne on January 19 of 2008 at the age of 50.
     On July 21 2009 Andrew Thomas died in Cologne at the age of 63. John McInerney is now the only member alive from the original line-up of Bad Boys Blue.

Bad Boys Blue line-ups by year
   1984-1986
Trevor Taylor
John McInerney
Andrew Thomas
   1987-1988
John McInerney
Trevor Taylor
Andrew Thomas
   1989-1993
John McInerney
Andrew Thomas
Trevor Bannister
   1993-1994
John McInerney
Andrew Thomas
   1995-1999
John McInerney
Andrew Thomas
Mo Russel
   2000-2002
John McInerney
Andrew Thomas
Kevin McCoy
   2003-2004
John McInerney
Andrew Thomas
   2005
John McInerney with a live group and backing singers
or
Andrew Thomas
Kevin McCoy
Herbert McCoy
as The Real Bad Boys Blue
   2006-2008
John McInerney
Carlos Ferreira
or (unchanged)
Andrew Thomas
Kevin McCoy
Herbert McCoy
as The Real Bad Boys Blue
   2008-2009
John McInerney
Carlos Ferreira
or
Andrew Thomas
Kevin McCoy
Jeremy Cummins
as The Real Bad Boys Blue
   2009-Present
John McInerney
Carlos Ferreira

Scotch - Evolution

Scotch

Evolution

1985

Italo Disco Electropop

Italy

Tracklist:


01 - Primitive Man
02 - Take Me Up
03 - Man In The Man
04 - Born To Kill
05 - Komburn
06 - Delirio Mind
07 - Loving Is Easy
08 - Disco Band
09 - Losing In Time

     The group was created by Manlio Cangelli (composer, keyboard and drum machine programming), then were added Vince Lancini (vocals) and Fabio Margutti (keyboards), joined by Franz Rome (keyboards, programming) for the second album Pictures Of Old Days.

     The band had numerous hits, starting with the worldwide known "Penguin invasion", "Disco Band", then "Delirio Mind" and "Take Me Up". The group's 1985 single "Disco Band" was their major hit in Germany and other countries. In 1985 they released the album "Evolution". Years active 1982–1987.

     Albums

1985 Evolution

1987 Pictures of old days

     Maxi Singles

1983 Penguins' invasion

1983 Penguins' invasion (Vocal)

1984 Disco band

1984 Disco band (Remix)

1984 Take me up / Man in the man

1985 Delirio mind

1985 Delirio mind (Remix) / Take me up (Remix)

1986 Mirage / Amor por Victoria

1986 Money Runner

1987 Pictures

1987 Man to man

     Members

Manlio Cangelli

Vince Lancini

Fabio Margutti

Franz Rome