Giorgio Moroder, though best known as the producer of Donna Summer's disco hits, also produced some synth heavy disco-y numbers for Sparks, Three Degrees and Melissa Manchester. I have to say this song is Funk in name alone. I just wanted to post SOMETHING for Funky Friday, but was pressed for time to pull out something good. The only thing funky about Giorgio was his 'stache.
It's a shame this wasn't released as an A side.It's such a super song, it could have been a big hit.It was wasted because it was hidden away from the world on the B side of Looky Looky.Since 1967 my family has played it every year on everyone's birthday.No birthday is complete for us until we've heard this familiar and much-loved song.
In keeping with the italo disco theme i started last week, here are two tracks that have a lot of similarities: synth heavy, title tracks, opening tracks, and are on albums with sah-weet album covers. The first one is a track from italo disco pioneer (who also wrote all the music in top gun, including [...]
I saw Midnight Express in the late 70's, and bought the soundtrack Midnight Express which was incredible. After watching the film I knew i'd never be able to smuggle anything across the turkish border again!You have to see this movie with score by GIORGIO MORODER. He is a three-time Oscar winning Italian record producer, song writer and performer. He was ahead of his time with the use of synth...