Modern Talking - The Singles Collection (Album) [South Africa Only Release] 1987 Eurobeat Electro Eurodisco Hits "Hard-To-Find" RARE 80's RELEASE!

Modern Talking

The Singles Collection (Album) [South Africa Only Release] 1987

Eurobeat Electro Eurodisco Hits

"Hard-To-Find Edition" 80's

Modern Talking– The Singles Collection

Label:

Principal Record Company – RSL 1038, Hansa – RSL 1038

Format:
Vinyl, LP, Compilation, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country:
South Africa
Released:
1987
Genre:
Electronic, Pop
Style:
Synth-pop

Tracklist▼

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A1		You're My Heart, You're My Soul	5:36
A2		You Can Win If You Want	3:55
A3		Diamonds Never Made A Lady	4:05
A4		Cheri, Cheri Lady	3:45
A5		You're The Lady Of My Heart	3:18
B1		Atlantis Is Calling (S.O.S. For Love)	3:48
B2		Just We Two (Mona Lisa)	3:54
B3		Brother Louie	3:41
B4		Give Me Peace On Earth	4:11
B5		Geronimo's Cadillac	3:16

Companies etc▼

·         Licensed To– Principal Record Company (Pty) Ltd.

·           Marketed By– Principal Record Company (Pty) Ltd.

Credits

·         Composed By– Dieter Bohlen

Notes▼

A World Of Music Release
Licensed to and marketed by Principal Record Co.

Barcode and Other Identifiers▼

 Barcode: 6 001210 145813

Hot RS - House Of The Rising Sun & Forbidden Fruit (2 Albums on 1 CD) 1978 disco rock classic "Hard-To-Find" VERY RARE CD!

HOT R.S is an acronym for House Of The Rising Sun, a 70’s disco project anchored by South African clarinetist Dan Hill and producer/percussionist Kevin Kruger, also of Disco Rock Machine in the late 1970’s. HOT R.S. put out a self titled LP in 1977, and a followup entitled “Forbidden Fruit” in 1978. Their 1977 cut “Slow Blow” still seems to be a favorite among many disco enthusiasts and producers.

Hot RS

House Of The Rising Sun & Forbidden Fruit

(2 Albums on 1 CD)

1977 & 1978

Ashleigh Sendin - (Ha Ha) Here I Come (1984) hi-nrg electro disco 80's "Hard-To-Find" VERY RARE!

Ashleigh Sendin

"(Ha Ha) Here I Come"

(12 Inch Maxi) 1984

hi-nrg electro disco 80's

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"A Very Rare South African 80's Hi-Nrg Electro Record"

I recently found out that the artist Ashleigh Sendin who sang ‘(Ha Ha) Here I come’ on the South-African compilation album High Energy Double Dance - Vol 2 (1984) and ‘Who needs it’ (Eurobeat 3 - 1987) is a South-African. She has been living in the UK for the past twenty years having had a rewarding career on stage and are currently the headmaster of an Acting school. I contacted her and asked her about her life in South-Africa and UK.

DJ Radcliff: How did you end up recording ‘(Ha Ha) Here I Come’ with the legendary Patric van Blerk and Fransua Roos?
Ashleigh: I met them through a record company called Principal Records for whom I had recorded another single called Rebecca (sort of Kate Bush style ballad).

DJ Radcliff: Was ‘Here I come' released in other markets other than South-Africa?
Ashleigh: To the best of my knowledge none of the tracks were released outside South Africa.

DJ Radcliff: Did you record any other tracks with them during this period?
Ashleigh: I recorded another track which was used on a dance compilation called ‘Who needs it’. They used my name although I recorded it as a session. That was in 1987 just before I left for the UK.

DJ Radcliff: High Energy was really big during this period, even in South-Africa; did you ever get to meet any other High Energy artists?
Ashleigh: When I released ‘Here I come’ I was part of a High Energy dance music concert tour. A group of Dance music recording artists from the US and UK came over for the tour. Evelyn Thomas, Miquel Brown, Marsha Raven, Earlene Bentley and Barbara Pennington.
I worked with Earlene on my first job in the West End, ‘Blues in the Night’ at the Piccadilly Theatre, and then worked with Sinitta a recording artist whose mother is Miquel Brown in ‘HAIR’ at the Old Vic. Small World!

DJ Radcliff: You were also credited in a 1979 movie of South-African director Percival Rubens called Midnight Caller (aka The Demon and The Unholy) How old were you when you appeared in this slasher flick and did you feature in any other films?
Ashleigh: I was 15 in that particular film and was also in a couple of other equally dire South African films one was the ‘Lions Share’ and the other was ‘Follow that Rainbow’.

DJ Radcliff: Would you mind giving us some more information on your life in South-Africa, like what schools you attended, and what local productions you were involved with?
Ashleigh: I grew up in Bryanston and Fourways –when fourways was just veldt. I went to Bryanston Primary and then Bryanston High School. I started professionally at age 13 playing ‘Annie’ for Joan Brickhill and Louis Burke. I did ‘Wizard of OZ’,’ Robin Hood’, ‘Hans Christian Anderson’ and ‘Judy’ for Napac. ‘Godspel’l and ‘My name is Alice’ for Des and Dawn Lindbergh and ‘The Hollow’ and ’The Real Thing’ for Pieter Toerien, among others. For the SABC I did ‘The Settlers’,’ The Danny Bickett Show’,’ Inspector Carr investigates’ and various commercials etc. I was working solidly from the age of 13 so chose not to go the university route.

DJ Radcliff: You have been in the UK for almost 20 years now, do you still have ties with South-Africa and when was the last time you visited our shores?
Ashleigh: My family are all still in SA. I was over only a month ago as my Mum passed away.

DJ Radcliff: Please tell us how you ended up in The West End, what did you do when you first went to the UK?
Ashleigh: I was very lucky in respect of timing when I got to the UK. The West End was experiencing a boom and I was able to get an agent and get work within 6 months of arriving in the UK. My first job was understudying the girl and the woman in ‘Blues in the Night’. I played the Juve lead in ‘Anything Goes’ with Elaine Paige. On ‘Saturday Night’ I achieved a lifelong ambition which was to meet Stephen Sondheim.

DJ Radcliff: As mentioned before you were involved in many musicals on the West End, give us a brief list of you proudest achievements?
Ashleigh: Some I have already mentioned but will give a brief list. ‘Blues in the Night’ at the Piccadilly theatre, ‘Anything Goes’ at the Prince Edward theatre, ‘Lady in the Dark’ at The National, ‘Hair’ at the Old Vic. ‘Promises, Promises’ and Sondheim’s ’Saturday Night’, The obligatory pantomimes if living in the UK, ‘Cinderella’ and ‘Aladdin’. Several seasons of ‘Lost’ musicals at the Barbican-Concert Productions of musicals from the 30’s to the 50’s mainly. I performed in seven of those over five seasons. Several concept albums for projected musicals which I still do occasionally and session work i.e. backing vocals for demos also for ITV’S Spitting Image. I performed with the cast of ‘Anything Goes’ for The Queen Mothers 90th Birthday at the London Palladium as well as several Charity performances for Crusade and the Princess Diana Fund also at the Palladium.

DJ Radcliff: You are currently the principal of a company called ‘Stagecoach’ What exactly is ‘Stagecoach’ and what other projects are you currently working on?
Ashleigh: Stagecoach is a large organization with Theatre schools all over the UK and the World. I bought the franchise for Penzance so own the business for that territory. Basically I am the principal and I employ 4 teachers and an assistant. It’s pretty much what I do full time. I got tired of doing 8 shows a week I had been working in Musicals for 25 years!


DJ Radcliff: Thank you for chatting to us; it was really interesting to find out what Asleigh Sendin has been up to the past 24 years since High Energy Double Dance Vol 2 came out. Keep well!

Sinitta - "Toy Boy" (12'' Maxi) 1987 hi-nrg eurobeat disco pwl 80's hit single [x6 remixes]

Sinitta

"Toy Boy" (12'' Maxi) 1987

hi-nrg eurobeat disco pwl 80's

TRACKLISTING

01 - Toy Boy (7'' Mix)  3.25

02 - Toy Boy (Extended Rap Version)  3.47

03 - Toy Boy (Brand New Megamix)  5.10

04 - Toy Boy (Extended Hip Joint Mix)  6.50

05 - Toy Boy (The Extended Bicep Mix)  7.01

06 - Toy Boy (Instrumental)  4.55

Sinitta Renet Malone (born October 19, 1966 in Seattle, Washington, United States), known professionally as Sinitta, is an American singer who has lived in the United Kingdom for most of her career. She is best known for her hit records in the 1980s; including "So Macho", "Toy Boy", "Cross My Broken Heart" and "Right Back Where We Started From". She has also acted in a number of West End shows, has been affiliated with The X Factor, and appeared as a contestant on the eleventh series of

I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!.

Sinitta is the daughter of Canadian actress and singer Miquel Brown ("So Many Men, So Little Time) and Anthony Blackett.  Her birth year is usually cited as 1968, although some press sources have alleged she was born earlier, perhaps 1966 or even as early as 1963.  1963 seems most likely given that in 1982 she was dating 21-year-old Nick Cowell before dumping him for his 23-year-old brother Simon. It would be unlikely that either man would date a 13-year-old, which would be her age if she had been born in 1968.

Sinitta was both Simon Cowell's and Fanfare Records's first signing.  Cowell was desperate for Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) to write and produce for Sinitta. "Feels Like The First Time", Sinitta's subsequent single following "So Macho", had charted low (number 45 UK Oct 1986) and only spent 5 weeks on the chart, whereas, in contrast, "So Macho" had been on the UK chart for 30 weeks in 1986, where it had peaked at number 2.

 Initially, Waterman declined to work with Sinitta, claiming that SAW were too busy.  SAW did work with Sinitta later however, and her first single with the Hit Factory was "Toy Boy".

In his book, Simon Cowell takes credit for the song idea for "Toy Boy", coining the phrase "toy boy", which described older women dating considerably younger men.

This is contradicted by writer/producer Mike Stock in his book, The Hit Factory - The Stock Aitken Waterman Story, in which he claims that his inspiration came from the fact that Sinitta herself at the time was dating a younger man. "Toy Boy" was a hit, reaching number 4 in the UK in July 1987, staying on the charts for 14 weeks.

The Ritchie Family - American Generation '97 (Remix) Disco Hi-Nrg Eurobeat Classic Eurodance 90's "Hard-To-Find" RARE!

The Ritchie Family

"American Generation '97" (Remix)

Disco Hi-Nrg Eurobeat Classic

"A very RARE Dutch 90's Remix of this 1978 Worldwide Disco Hit!"

RETRO DISCO Hi-NRG

Deniece Williams - "Let's Hear It For The Boy" (Dance Remix) 80's classic Hi-Nrg Eurobeat Funky Disco "Hard-To-Find" RARE!

Deniece Williams

"Let's Hear It For The Boy"

(DMC Dance Remix)

80's classic Hi-Nrg Eurobeat Funky Disco

"Originally from the 80's movie "Footloose" Soundtrack"

Great NEW Dance Remix!

SCORES 10/10!

"Great synth rift and bassline!"

RETRO DISCO Hi-NRG

Village People - "Action Man" (Hit Single) 1981 Disco Rock Pop 80's RARE HIT "Hard-To-Find"

Village People

"Action Man"

(Radio Hit Single) 1981

Disco Rock Pop 80's

RARE HIT "Hard-To-Find"

Lyrics

"Turn on my switch and you will seeIt makes me laugh and kiss, so grab me pleaseI dance, I sing, I am really funAnd any date I'm with is the right one
So if you wanna come, we're gonna have some funWe'll dance and sing and shout and play, we're gonna lead the way

I am an action man, always a need to party (always a need to party)Always a need to party (you've got to party honey)I've got my eye on you (you, you, you, you)
I am an action man, always a need to party (if you want some action baby)Always a need to party (I'll give you action honey)So won't you party too

When we step out, you'll have no doubtThis action man knows what it's all aboutI'm sure that we will steal the sceneYou'll see that I'm just a party machine
So if you wanna come, we're gonna have some funWe'll dance and sing and shout and play, we're gonna lead the way

I am an action man, always a need to par-arty (always a need to party)

Always a need to party (you've got to party honey)

I've got my eye on you (you, you, you, you)
I am an action man, always a need to party (if you want some action baby)Always a need to party (I'll give you action baby)So won't you party too
So if you wanna come, we're gonna have some funWe dance and sing and shout and play, we're gonna lead the way
I am an action man, always a need to party (always a need to party)Always a need to party (you've got to party honey)I've got my eye on you (you, you, you, you)
I am an action man, always a need to party (if you want some action baby)Always a need to party (I'll give you action baby)So won't you party too (too, too, too, too)-a       

"Remember lovin' this song as a child"

VERY "HARD TO FIND" !

RETRO DISCO Hi-NRG

                   

DISCO Fever - Various Artists 2CD Classic (RARE ORIGINAL SOUTH AFRICAN DISCO HITS) 70's & 80's "Hard-To-Find" VERY RARE!!!

Disco Fever

2CD Set Tracklisting:

1. Magic Carpet Ride [Kay, Moreve] - Buffalo 1979 [4:28]
2. Living For The City [Stevie Wonder] - Disco Rock Machine 1978 [7:19]
3. House Of The Rising Sun [Traditional, arranged by Dan Hill and Kevin Kruger] - Hot R.S. 1977 [14:35]
4. Hiroshima [P. Crossley, T. Owen, A. Oakley] - People Like Us 1987 [6:39]
5. Eloise Concerto [Paul Ryan/ Zane Cronjé] - Rouge 1978 [17:32]:
   1. Eloise
   2. Love Lost
   3. Eloise Finalé
6. Time Of The Season [Rod Argent] - Neil Cloud 1978 [6:33]
7. Living Inside My Head [John Ireland] - John Ireland 1978 [6:25]
8. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida [Doug Ingle] - Hot R.S. 1979 [7:47]
9. You Really Got Me [Dave Davies, Edward Kassner] - Disco Rock Machine 1978 [7:12]
10. Born To Be Wild (Medley) - Buffalo 1980 [14:07]:
    1. Born To Be Wild [Mars Bonfire]
    2. Gimmy Gimmy Good Lovin' [Levine, Cordell]
    3. Mony Mony [Gentry, James, Cordell, Bloom]
    4. Born To Be Wild [Mars Bonfire]
11. Reflections - Neil Cloud 1978 [17:38]:
    1. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly [Ennio Morricone]
    2. Reflections Of My Life [Campbell, McAleese]
12. Delta Queen [T. Tassenberg] - Hot R.S. 1977 [7:49]
13. Time To Love [Trevor Rabin] - Disco Rock Machine 1978 [7:18]
14. Give [Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse] - Harari [5:16]
15. Money Runner [Quincy Jones] - Hot R.S. 1980 [6:28]
16. Loving Styles [Trevor Rabin] - Disco Rock Machine 1978 [7:15]
17. Burn Out [Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse] - Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse 1984 [4:57]

Release information:
July 1999, Gallo, CDREDD 627

Out-of-print and impossible to find. [Brian Currin, September 2009]

Credits:

Thanks to: John Ireland, Brian 'Vagabond' Currin, Dion Singer, Gary Van Riet, Lana-Jane Miller, Terry Owen, the good people at EMI, Peter Pearlson (Forest Studios) for all his hard work, Terry Fairweather, the crowd at Apula and everybody else who made this compilation possible.

Compiled by Derek Smith
Digitally re-mastered at Forest Studios by Peter Pearlson.

Reviews:

In the late 70s disco music internationally was dominated by such artists as The Bee Gees, Donna Summer, Chic, Gloria Gaynor, Village People, etc. The rhythm was everything and musicianship was secondary.

In South Africa, however, disco seemed to take on a distinct harder edge, with a number of classic hard rock and heavy metal songs being given the disco treatment. Paul Ryan's classic 'Eloise' was extended to 17 minutes by Zane Cronjé's Rouge, HOT RS covered Iron Butterfly's 'In-A-Gadda-Da -Vida' (cleverly combining it with Frankie Vaughan's 1957 UK #1 smash hit 'Garden Of Eden') and Peter Vee's Buffalo covered Steppenwolf's heavy metal anthem 'Born To Be Wild'.

Ex-Rabbitt, Trevor Rabin with his Disco Rock Machine recorded the Kinks' 'You Really Got Me' while his colleague, Neil Cloud (Rabbitt's drummer), covered 'Time Of The Season' originally done in 1968 by Rod Argent's Zombies.

All these tracks and others (like John Ireland's 'Living Inside My Head') are on this Gallo collection compiled by Derek Smith.
-- Brian Currin, 1999

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Even if one did not care overmuch for disco, he or she should be able to find enough songs on this double CD to make at least a 90 minute tape. In Texas we spend much time in our cars so road tapes, for me anyway, are important. This is good music to use to thump one's way across Texas. When done South African style, and that's with a bit more rock thrown in, one wonders if the disco genre is undervalued. Here are the songs of Disco Fever: all disco or dance, though some do rock:

'Magic Carpet Ride' by Buffalo is a strong opener, and in its way, "Ooh, ooh, carpet ride!" is a fine basic rock lyric. Nice musical frills here, the song is imaginative despite the dominant disco beat that can easily become moronic if not decorated creatively, as it is here. I hear a couple of lyrics differently on the original, but this is really a strong song.

'Living for the City' by Disco Rock Machine is a nice disco-fied cover of Stevie Wonder's song, and one faithful enough to the original, yet different and so eminently danceable that I can imagine Stevie himself might like it.

'House of the Rising Sun' by Hot R.S. A good version of one of my favorite rock standards, though the young lady singing really over-emotes how glad she feels, and she carries on disturbing the neighbors for quite a while.

'Hiroshima' by People Like Us has nice singing and is interesting lyrically, more than I-love-you-baby lyrics, yet it is a more straight-forward disco song than the first two songs on this double CD set.

'Eloise Concerto' by Rouge starts out as a readily recognizable disco song, with horn accents, and moves into a lo-o-ong and rather mellow interlude. The song is pleasant, with several movements, and comes across more as listening disco than dancing disco. If I were to hear it in a club I might think differently, though. The pleasantness of the song is borne out by the fact that it does not seem to last 17 minutes and 32 seconds.

'Time of the Season' by Neil Cloud has the same eerie mood of the original, but with a more obvious beat. The original was a favorite song, this version is too.

'Living Inside My Head' by John Ireland is my favorite song on 'Disco Fever'. Maybe early in childhood I was entranced by 'Greensleeves', which I feel sure Henry the VIII did not write, despite his claim. Anyway, John Ireland does a much better job than Henry could have with this beautiful melody and original lyrics. Absolutely lovely.

'In-a-Gadda-da-Vida' by Hot R.S. rocks, or is it that maybe the original wasn't too far from being a disco number itself? Whichever the case, this is a good version of a classic song that everyone pokes fun at, but one which everyone knows nonetheless.

That's disc one, some good pure disco, and some disco with a definite rock edge.

Disc two:
'You Really Got Me' by Disco Rock Machine (featuring Trevor Rabin) is only barely disco. It's disco in a hard rock mode, go-ahead rock with a cranking guitar. This is a loud disco cover of The Kinks song with a disco beat in the back and a wailing guitar up front in the lead.

Medley: 'Born to Be Wild', 'Gimmy Gimmy Good Lovin'', 'Mony Mony', and 'Born to Be Wild' by Buffalo works, flowing from one song to another. Inspirational rock in that it lifts me up like good music is supposed to do. Nice and long at 14 minutes and 7 seconds, too.

Medley: 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly' and 'Reflections of My Life' by Neil Cloud also mixes different songs and it works, moving from the universally known "Good, Bad, and Ugly" theme to lyrics of Marmalade's reflective song to disco dance rhythm and back to the two pop songs -- it really works. Also nice and long at 17 minutes and thirty-eight seconds.

'Delta Queen' -- Another song with a vocal woman disturbing the neighbors. This starts out dance-worthy with a nice yearning mood, then it mellows to become a softer disco song, with a build meant to symbolize something going on. This is a disco song of movements and parts, good to listen to aside from the young lady's histrionics, which in the song, as in real life, are distracting.

'Time to Love' by Disco Rock Machine is a good disco song with a moderate beat and some electronic fills. Pleasant and acceptable, but it doesn't really stand out.

'Give' by Harari is not what I'd call a disco song, but rather it is a timeless dance number, and a catchy and good one. The few songs I've heard by Harari make me want to hear more.

'Money Runner' by Hot R.S. combines disco, horns, and hip lyrics in an anthem to the almighty buck. This song has a driving tempo and in a club was likely to cause everybody to move in unison.

'Loving Styles' by Disco Rock Machine is a quirky song, slow in tempo with a stop-start rhythm. While I can see where some might enthuse over this one it's another that didn't hit me. It's not obvious disco, but definitely a song to dance to. Okay, it has interesting guitar extrapolations.

'Burn Out' by Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse is a nice and gently chugging dance song, and another without the obvious disco beat. The melody and beat work precisely together here. The vocals carry the tune but are not dominant, they work with the instrumentation. A pretty song, appropriate for a closing set for lovers to dance close to before going home together.

My take on over 150 minutes of South African disco music, untinged by nostalgia, is to wonder: can it be that South Africa improved on disco? I conclude: Yes.

About a third of the musical contents of these two discs is disco for rock fans, so rockified that one might ask, "Disco? What disco?" Many of the songs are untypical of an undervalued genre. The couple of songs that I didn't respond to as strongly as others most certainly don't detract from the whole. All in all, another case of my Dollars-into Rands being well-spent.
-- Kurt Shoemaker, Blanco, Texas, 2000

Duran Duran - Rio (Matt Pop Mix) 2012 Hi-Nrg Disco Eurobeat 80's "Unreleased Promo Mix" NEW!

Duran Duran

"Rio"(Matt Pop Mix) 2012

Hi-Nrg Disco Eurobeat 80's

"Unreleased Promo Mix"

"An amazing NEW remix of

Duran Duran's 'Rio'

by Dutch remixer MATT POP"

We LOVE Matt Pop!

Scores 10/10!

RETRO DISCO Hi-NRG

Dead Or Alive - "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)" (2012 Funky House Mix) PWL 80's Hi-Nrg Disco Anthem [Pete Burns] NEW!

Dead Or Alive

"You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)"

(2012 Funky House Mix)

PWL 80's Hi-Nrg Disco Anthem

[Pete Burns]

"A Retro Disco Hi-Nrg Exclusive

New 2012 Unreleased Remix!"

Scores 10/10!

"We love Dead Or Alive!"

RETRO DISCO Hi-NRG

Adele vs The Reynolds Girls - "I'd Rather Set Fire to the Reynolds Girls" (Mash-Up) PWL 80's 2012 dance

Adele vs The Reynolds Girls

"I'd Rather Set Fire to the Reynolds Girls" (Mash-Up)

PWL 80's 2012 dance