Jackie Robinson : MOVING LIKE A SUPERSTAR

[remicks]

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Something exciting has happened !!!

I’m getting dental work done in SF ….. and
No, that’s not the exciting part .

Going to Amoeba and scoring some 45’s there is

Including …… at last .......

currently : 22) MOVIN’ LIKE A SUPERSTAR – Jackie Robinson
(Ariola America 45/ 12" promo remix 4:25) (11 points/ F)
12 weeks on the chart/ Last week: #32 (+10) .

Which has been the most successful top ten song on Marky’s current ongoing charts that I don’t have a clue about. ( Reached # 7 ) and is still charting over a run of three months … suggesting it must have something going for it … I've been watching it bounce around on the chart .... including dropping off and now returning .... with curious interest ...

now at last I’m going to get to hear it.8):D

I haven’t played it yet ……..so I’m wondering….anyone want to describe what I‘m about to hear ? What does MOVING LIKE A SUPERSTAR sound like ?



Here’s what I know from the 45 :
Ariola 1976 time: 3:34
RECORDED IN GERMANY

How little else do I know about this record ..?
Well, I’ve been thinking that Jackie Robinson was a guy …. ( As in the baseball player of the same name ) But its now occurring to me that this could be and probably is female vocal …. ? .....

Will I be delighted or disappointed? Prepare me !! I’ll wait and stare at this record for a week !! before playing it :roll::cry:


Remicks : MOVIN’ LIKE A SUPERSTAR by Jackie Robinson
sounds like ______________ !!!
It's one of the ________ disco records ever !!
I ______ it because ____________


thanks !! ........... :D


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It'd be fun to hear your prescreening input ! :D

[Disco Funk]

If it's the Jackie Robinson I know, she was a German singer not unlike Penny MacLean. In fact, her album 'I'm Different' featured the same German musicians as the Silver Convention/Penny MacLean stuff, like Dave King and Gary Unwin.

The only track of her's I've enjoyed is Pussyfooter because of the wicked drum break that's been sampled to death. The rest of the album was pretty bad. I don't recall Moving Like A Superstar being on the album.

Here's a couple of samplings of Pussyfooter:

http://sandbox.pair.com/sound/sbr503_pfooter.ram

http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF196621-01-02-03.mp3

Disco Funk

[Mixmachine]

Originally Posted by Disco Funk

If it's the Jackie Robinson I know, she was a German singer not unlike Penny MacLean. In fact, her album 'I'm Different' featured the same German musicians as the Silver Convention/Penny MacLean stuff, like Dave King and Gary Unwin.

Disco Funk

If she's the same girl In this cut she sounds more like Vickie sue to me.

http://www.discomusic.com/records-more/7093_0_2_0_C/

After probably about 30 years with out a spin I raided my old 7” stash…

Heavy bass with wah wah guitars over strong drums intro, followed by short strings sets and stabs , girly chorus “There you are, you’re moving like a superstar” then Jackie (female) follows up with the first verse starting off soft but belting it out during the last line..

“Tonight I see you dancing, just before my eyes,
your body is moving like a burning flame
You’re free as an angel, Flying in Paradise
But I’m so tired, and I just come undone” (followed by acoustic Piano solo bar)

….” girly “Superstar “ chorus again followed by the second different verse performed in the same fashion as the previous

“The music all around me, keeps you out of reach
And I’m sitting here like a big poor girls,
Baby, come inside me, trust my only wish
You know I get nervous and I sure come undone” (followed by string sets)

(change up) “I don’t care what people say
I’ll change (or show?) your life, a better way..”

then a nice short break follows including congas over girly “Na-na-na-nana” chorus chants and instrumentation built up , then the “Superstar “ chorus takes over with Jackie’s strong beltings over that as the song fades out.

I don’t think I own the extended 12” but the break would have been a prime candidate for expansion and a third verse couldn’t hurt either, She has a great strong voice, that adds to this song’s strong Big club “underground” feel, I’d bet this cut was a great treat in a loud club system BITD (don’t recall if I ever experience it), not a polished standard “Disco” number at all, certainly no trace of Silver Convention style anywhere.

[JussiK]

Isn't "Moving Like A Superstar" just about the very epitome of the Euro sound? I remember it still being massive in holiday destinations thru Europe during the summer of 1976. The track is indeed included on Jackie's album. The tune got covered by Amadeo, a thinner French (?) Demis Roussos-lookalike. His 10 minute version is way faster than the original, and kicks off with an excitedly shouted intro:" ...presenting... you...you..YOU! You, The Superstar!!" The instrumentation flies madly, the girl chorus chants like they should and Amadeo rants and raves for his money's worth, and had the atrocious quality of the pressings available been better I think many djs would have spinned Amadeo along with Jackie. There was a 12" realese but most of us seemed to have been stuck with the lp. There's a third version as well, called "Dancing Like A Superstar" by White Heat which retains the original's tempo of c 130 bpm but alters the chant and the strings a bit, with the girls going: "There, there you are, dancing, dancing like a superstar". The main vocal is male, and delivers spoken lines like" Tonight I'm going dancing...it's Saturday night..."etc.

[Mixmachine]

Originally Posted by JussiK

The tune got covered by Amadeo, a thinner French (?) Demis Roussos-lookalike. His 10 minute version is way faster than the original, and kicks off with an excitedly shouted intro:" ...presenting... you...you..YOU! You, The Superstar!!" The instrumentation flies madly, the girl chorus chants like they should and Amadeo rants and raves for his money's worth, and had the atrocious quality of the pressings available been better I think many djs would have spinned Amadeo along with Jackie. There was a 12" realese but most of us seemed to have been stuck with the lp.

Aha, I think I've got this 12", I'll dig it up from the wharehouse to double check, every time I read the tittle "moving like a superstar" on Marky's charts visions of a dark skin shirtless skinny guy with a Fu-Machu (sp) kind beard in the cover Pic comes to mind, would that be this Amadeo guy?

[the disco kid]

i love this song!

you're in for a treat when you play it. it's an underground favorite of mine and a whole group of my friends. it was on the LP "i'm different" and there is a 12" as well, and is far superior to "pussyfooter", "pussyfooter" only gained acclaim because of the break, not because of the song.

"there you are..."

[Mixmachine]

Originally Posted by the disco kid

i love this song!

you're in for a treat when you play it. it's an underground favorite of mine and a whole group of my friends. it was on the LP "i'm different" and there is a 12" as well, and is far superior to "pussyfooter", "pussyfooter" only gained acclaim because of the break, not because of the song.

"there you are..."

Does the Album version has another verse? I love the way she sang them..

[JussiK]

Originally Posted by Mixmachine

visions of a dark skin shirtless skinny guy with a Fu-Machu (sp) kind beard in the cover Pic comes to mind, would that be this Amadeo guy?

That's Your Man!!! :-)

[the disco kid]

Originally Posted by Mixmachine

Does the Album version has another verse? I love the way she sang them..

no extra verse, but i nice break that builds back up to the chorus and then fades out timing on the 12" is 4:25. the LP version is 3:30

[remicks]

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Thanks for the intriguing feedback so far !!

I'm really encouraged ....was prepared to hear "That song sucks big time Remicks !!! "

as is typically the case with opinions around here.... :p:lol: ..... but so far it seems to be getting a passing grade !

Discofunk had me thinking along the lines of Penny McLean or Silver Convention which I thought could be the case too... since its a German production of that era ... ...which would've been fine ....LADY BUMP is very dear to me ( hey, its got spunk !! )


But, now Mixmachine is making it sound like its something else. More full , more lyrical ... faster ....

wahs wahs and heavy bass... ;) .... hey .... don't tell me this is one from the school of Isaac Hayes !! .....???........



I'm going to wait the week out to listen .. .. so more info /opinions are welcomed. I'm not even going to listen to that PUSSYFOOTER snip DF .....because I want this to come to me totally out of left field ....



thanks
remicks

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the discokid :

you're in for a treat when you play it.