ATLANTIC STARR CIRCLES

My two favorite Atlantic Starr songs are the mushy ballad Always and Circles. Circles is one of those songs that for me define pure perfection. When I hear it I feel rushes and ripples of pleasure. I would not change one thing about it from the beginning to the end. I love the vocals. The lyrics turn me and I can relate to them and it's very danceable even though originally there was no hyped extended remix of it.  The album version is great just the way it was made.

1982 holds a special place in my heart because it signifies the year that I got out from under my parent's clutches. I became a club monster in no time!

CIRCLE


Circles, goin round in circles

Circles, goin round in circles



You're taking too much time

To make up your mind

Either you love me or you don't

And all the other girls

In your crazy mixed up world

You said you'd drop them

But you know you won't

sometimes I think about forgetting you

But it's so, so hard to make that choice

Cuz boy with you

I go to to seventh heaven

Just by the sound of your voice



Circles, goin' round in circles

Circles, goin' round in circles



Out a my head

That's where I'm going

Tryin so hard to deal with you

It's not so easy try'n to bare these changes

That you're puttin' me thru

In my head there's a ball of confusion

And I can't figure out just what to do

I guess my life will keep on going round and round

Until I get away from you


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Colonel Abrams was a House King

I don't usually write a blog immediately after a dance icon dies.  But in this case I'm gonna jump on the bandwagon.  Colonel Abrams 80's house masterpieces bring back so many memories.  I danced the night away to so many of them that I couldn't just not dedicate a blog to him.

Colonel was there on the ground floor.  When his first dance single came out in 1984 no one was even using the term House music.

Through the mid 80's he amassed a long string of hits.  Some of these even crossed onto the U.S. R&B charts and the U.K. pop charts.  For instance Trapped made it all the way to #3 in the U.K. in 1985.  But four of them hit #1 on the U.S. dance charts including the aforementioned Trapped, I'm not Gonna let and How Soon we Forget.

Colonel was huge at all the clubs I frequented in those years.  By the late 80's the hits dried up.  He continued to record but without much impact.  His last album was released in 1996.  

A COLONEL ABRAMS ZIP

Spacer Woman by CHARLIE is the perfect italo disco song

I’m a Spacer Woman Don’t you worry 'bout me? I don’t want to hurt you, I just want to love you! We can start it over Come on be my lover You will be my danger (?) Let me be your stranger! I want to know I need your love I can’t go on I must be sure I come from Space I want to know If I can do My love is true

Charlie is composed of Gino De Stefani and Maurice Cavalieri.  Charlie

There is very little I can say about Spacer Woman other then it is one of the absolute best of one of my favorite genre's. It also just happens to be from the 1983 the absolute best year for Italo Disco music. enjoy the rip cause it's very rare

When Germanys ZYX picked up the record in 1984 they changed the title to Space Woman or it's a misprint.

There was also a 2005 bootleg release. So be careful collector's. Don't risk paying alot unless you're absolutely sure.

DEN HARROW italo disco's pretty boy

Refreshed with more music.
Does it really matter that Den Harrow didn't really sing the songs he is attributed to have sung?  His image and his dancing were also a part of the magic weren't they?  I'm not gonna defend him.  This marketing tool has been used in Italy often and in other countries too.  So in a way it's not really his fault is it?   Fat Den Zip

There is no doubting that he had a long string of hits from 1983 right up to the end of the 80's.  In fact there was enough interest in him that in Germany he even had some releases into the 90's and he received the Bravo Golden Otto award in 1987.  This signified that he was Germany's favorite male vocalist, even ahead of Michael Jackson!

The first release To Meet Me in 1983 was one of many greatly produced Turatti and Chieregato tracks that propelled Italo Disco so much in the 80's.

In the 2000's he was once again in the public eye in Italy.  As a contestant on Isola dei Famosi, a strange mixture of Survivor and Celebrity Big Brother.  He often cried on air and definitely had a hard time on the island.

The zip contains most of the hits and even a few of the lesser hits.
GET SOME DEN
They are a perfect mirror of the italo disco genre because he had songs representing all of the types of  the genre.  Some better then others but in any case still a great peek into the sound.

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