I love my radio is an Italian record and don't you forget it!

Celso Valli is one of my heroes.  His name appears on many of my Italo Disco favorites and Taffy's I love my Radio is one of them with bells on.  He recorded it in the beach holiday favorite town on the Adriatic, Rimini.  Other classic Italo Disco records were made there too such as N.O.I.A., Kasso, Klein and M.B.O. and Fun Fun just to name a few.

I EVEN LOVE SALT WATER TAFFY!

Taffy a British singer had been recording since 1977 but I love my radio is surely her best known tunes.  It made it to #8 on the Italian pop charts but was a huge dance hit all over the world.  I know as a college student in Washington, D.C. I used to dance my ass off to it.

Bobby O is the man! Pet Shop Boys, Divine, The Flirts, Waterfront Home, Oh Romeo and more

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:

Babby, The, C. Shore, Cha Cha Garcia, John "Gumball" Gonzales,Klaus Voegel, Mein

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

Prayer of Love by Eva

1987 was pretty much the last active year of the italo disco boom.  A few gems came out that year though mostly not with the same impact of  years gone by.  Eva's Prayer of Love on Sensation Records distributed by the seminal Disco Magic was one of them.

I think it's got a little bit of freestyle influence but not any house or that spacey italo sound I loved so much from a few years before.

But I think it's fun.  In any case it's rare and expensive if you can even find it.  PRAYER OF LOVE

Blue Night

For anyone that thinks Italo Disco is a one trick pony I present Turn Me Loose/My Design by Blue Night.

So melodic, so soft rock, it could almost be Alan Parsons Project gone Italo Disco.  It's simply not frivolous or even overly spacey or poppy or even funky.  Blue Night actually gave us a Morning Music Classic with this 2 song Medley.

I'll never forget when I sold this album on eBay.  It was probably my fastest sale.  I meant to start out the bidding at $24.99 but instead put a buy it now of $24.99.  Within five minutes a guy in Scandinavia bought it and I was stuck.  I'm not the type of person to re-neg on a deal so I lost a good $100 or so.

A NICE RIP OF SIDE ONE

Yet another magical italo disco release from 1983, the absolute best year for the genre.