Tag: Disco

Dionne Warwick – Heartbreaker

Music video: Dionne Warwick – Heartbreaker

“Heartbreaker” is a single by American pop and soul singer Dionne Warwick from her album Heartbreaker (1982). The song was written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees, with Barry Gibb’s backing vocal being heard on the chorus.

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The song reached the top of charts around the world and stands as one of Warwick’s biggest career hits, selling an estimated 4,000,000 copies worldwide. It made the Top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in January 1983. The track was Dionne’s eighth #1 Adult Contemporary hit and reached #14 on the Soul chart. In the UK Singles Chart, the track reached #2 for two weeks in November 1982.

It was ranked as Billboard magazine’s 80th biggest US hit of 1983.

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbreaker_(Dionne_Warwick_song)

Sandra – In The Heat Of The Night

Music video: Sandra – In The Heat Of The Night

In the Heat of the Night” is a Disco song by German singer Sandra. The song was released in November 1985 as the second single from the album The Long Play, where it charted at #1 in Switzerland and Israel, #2 in Germany, and #8 in South Africa (in mid-1986).

The song was covered by Hong Kong pop singer Anita Mui in 1986 called 將冰山劈開, by Finnish gothic metal band To/Die/For in 2000, and Swedish progressive rock band Odyssey in 2009. The song was also redone by a group named E-Rotic for PlayStation 2’s Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 2. Also in 1999, a remix version of the song by Sandra was released as a promo single only in France. In 2006 Sandra recorded a new mix of this song. This mix appeared on her compilation Reflections – Reproduced Hits (2006).

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Heat_of_the_Night_(Sandra_song)

Abba – Mamma Mia

“Mamma Mia” is a song recorded by the Swedish pop group ABBA, written by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson, with the lead vocals shared by Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. It is the opening track on the group’s third album, the self-titled ABBA. The song’s name is derived from Italian, where it is an interjection used in situations of surprise, anguish, or excitement (literally, “My mother”).

Boney M. – Rivers Of Babylon

“Rivers of Babylon” is a rastafarian song written and recorded by Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton of the Jamaican reggae group The Melodians in 1970. The Melodians’ original versions of the song appeared in the soundtrack to the 1972 movie The Harder They Come and the 1999 Nicolas Cage movie Bringing Out the Dead. It became popularized in Europe by the 1978 Boney M. cover version.