What can be said about Bobby Orlando, (Robert Phillip Orlando), the king of Hi NRG. I've heard he was a homophobe who clearly made a lot of his money from the gay scene. I've heard he was idolized by the Pet Shop Boys and are the reason why they decided to make that kind of music (and of course collaborated with him until they got a better offer). I've heard many things but don't really know much factually. make it on my own free enterprise
He certainly had a prolific career and some of his stuff is a lot better then others. The sound is clearly repetitive. But it was a winning sound and he just kept repeating it over and over in different ways. The disco era was over but people still really wanted to dance, so why not? Especially in Europe where the dance music never really stopped charting after the disco era.
Divine who is truly one of my idols worked with Bobby Orlando for a lot of his earlier releases. Some of which even became pop hits in Europe. A fate that eluded him in his American homeland. SOME DIVINE
The 1983 release Waterfront Home Take a Chance on Me was the perfect straddling of italo disco and hi nrg. This is one of the acts that Bobby was actually in himself along with Tony Caso and Christina Criscione. In this zip there is a marvelous edit done by my friend the illustrious DJ Paul Goodyear.
TAKE A CHANCE ON ME
GREAT BIG BOBBY ZIP
I'm not even going to tell you what's in the zip. I will say that it's got a great combination of things. Some better known and some less. But all in high quality mp3. Bobby Orlando, the definitive sound of club music in the 80's. White NRG club music. WHO'S YOUR BOYFRIEND by ERIC
Bright Nothing World was a 2010 release. Nice to see he is still embracing dance. Question is, is anybody listening?
Aliases:
In Groups:
1 Plus 1,
Barbie The Kens,
Beachfront,
Beat Box Boys, The,
Bobby "O" & His Banana Republic,
Boyd Brothers, The,
Bubba ; The Jack Attack,
Charlene Davis,
Claus V.,
College Boys, The,
Condo,
Darlene Down,
Dressed To Kill,
Fascination (3),
Fem-Spies, The,
Flirts, The,
Focus 1,
Free Enterprise,
Gina Desire,
Girls Have Fun,
Girly,
Gomez Presley,
Gringo Lopez,
Hippies With Haircuts,
Hotline (2),
House Of 'O',
I-Spies, The,
Ian Darby,
Johnny Bankcheck,
Joy Toy,
Lifestyle,
Lilly & the Pink,
Lola (31),
Malibu (2),
Mandarine,
MC Fritz The P-Rockers,
Miss Tammi Dee,
Nancy Dean,
New Breed,
New York Models, The,
Oh Romeo,
One & Two Teenies,
One-Two-Three,
Patty Phillipe,
Sandra Ford,
Something Anything,
Spooge Boy,
Teen-Rock,
Vision 1,
Waterfront Home,
Wow,
Zwei Maenner
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-jake
Bobby O was cool in that days of the early 80s.
My grand brother was dj in a local radio, in love with music and bought some records - we had a set to listen to records, cassettes and radio back then.
When he came home one day with "She Has A Way" 12" it was a hit played on radio. He then bought also The Flirts' album, produced by him, very nice music I grown up with!
cool
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