Suggest me some brazilian disco songs...not samba!

[EL COCO]

If You know "The Vamps" (DISCO BLOOD or DANCIN' DANCIN') "Fredoom Machine" (FREE LOVE or JANGADA) on Building Records Label, you understand what I mean...ciao fram Italy.

[JussiK]

FREAK LE BOOM BOOM by the amazing Gretchen is mondo beyondo disco done in Brazil.

[EL COCO]

thanx jussik

[Paulo]

EL COCO:

I don't know if this helps... but there was a brazilian girl group at the end of the 70's (a-la-Sisters Sledge or Ritchie Family)... They were 6 girls... her albums were entirely disco... their name was AS FRENÉTICAS (The Frenetics).

The music was disco - brazilian style (i. e. very pop and commercial).

I think the albums have been recently released in CD format, but as I don't like them I did not buy and don't know if they are easy to find now. I can take a look for you if you are really interested.

[EL COCO]

Thanx Paulo,
I know Freneticas... I got two songs by them "Dancin' Days" and "A Felicidade bate a sua porta" :really nice!
I forgot to write Freneticas in my post!!
Ciao from Italy.

[Paulo]

El Coco:

Jussi Kantonen mentioned Gretchen... There was a follow-up to Freak Le Boom Boom... it was CONGA LA CONGA (if I am not mistaken).

When the disco movement finished in the early 80`s, Gretchen tried to sing other styles of music, but the 80`s were really cruel to her.... and so she vanished.

Anyway, even in the height of the disco madness, she had absolutely no credibility over here (in the way that brazilian soul singers like TIM MAIA had). Even FRENETICA were more respected.

Very slowly, since the mid 90`s onwards, Gretchen resurfaced in saturday evening TV programs singing House mixes of Conga or Boom Boom. She can regularly be seen on cheap TV programs.

[EL COCO]

Good information...I hope to find some Gretchen records around here...Ciao from Italy.

[sirius]

Dear Friends!
What about ALICE STREET GANG or SAMBA SOUL???
Cosmic Love & Kisses From SIRIUS & DARKTUNES...

[EL COCO]

Thank you again Sirius...ciao from Italy.

[discofrank]

SAMBA SOUL recorded in Brazil
I have the LP and the 12" on RCA records of "Chove Chuva" and B-side "Mambo #5". GREAT Brazilian Disco cuts! Especially love the LP that included disco-ized versions of traditional brazilian tunes.

Did Samba Soul ever record another record or LP after the 1977 release?? Love their sound!

[Marcio**]

Samba Soul also recorded an album in 1978 called "Do It". The vocals were totally in English and Diva Gray appeared as lead vocalist. It was a Warren Schatz project :D .

[JussiK]

Regarding Gretchen, whan can her appearance be like these days if she's still in the public eye? Already in 1979 the woman looked very peculiar - she had a shapely body but an insanely grinning, rather unattractive visage. This is odd since all other stars and starlets out of Brazil have always been raving beauties.

[Paulo]

Jussi:

Gretchen's body hasn't changed that much, thanks to plastic surgery and silicon which keeps some parts of her body upwards. Concerning her face, one can notice the passage of time.

Her recent new exposure wasn't music conncected (although she has recorded Dance versions of old songs, but we can never hear them because they are not played in radios or MTV because of the bad stigma attached to her). Altough I don't watch, I know we sometimes can see her lip-synch in saturday evening cheese programs (that was on the 90's).

But as I was saying, her recent exposure wasn't because of music. She was going to get married to a guy who worked as hair-dresser.

One week before the marriage, she went to press, to TV, (and to the police), full of bruises claiming her future husband had beaten her.

For some weeks these cheese TV programs had a lot to talk about. They interviewd Gretchen and her ex-future-husband who denied everything. The programs even found some witnesses, etc...

Of course the marriage did not happen, but with the notoriety he won over the case, he was invited to appear naked in a brazilian gay magazine.

Some say that he was cocaine addicted and 2 or 3 months after the scandal, he was found dead in a Rio slum, shot in the head.

A friend who is watching me typing this right now is telling me that Gretchen is now married to another guy and has a recent born baby.

[Mixmachine]

How about "the coffee song" by Osibisa, also does "Hot Hot Hot" by Arrow qualify as a brazilian jam?

[Marcio**]

Originally Posted by Mixmachine

does "Hot Hot Hot" by Arrow qualify as a brazilian jam?

I don't know that song by Osibisa :( . I think "Hot Hot Hot" by Arrow is a kind of soca (soul calypso) from Trinidad & Tobago :D.

Great disco songs with Brazilian beat:

"Sambame' Rio" by Foxy produced by Foxy :D
"Carnival" by Fantasia featuring Peggy Santiglia produced by Bill Terrell :D



dance the body music :P