Italian Disco Part 4: LA BIONDA

[Videoskooter]

Great tunes they had! "Sandstorm" is my absolute favo!

And this one:

"1 For You, 1 For Me"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVQE501Qhik

"I Wanna Be Your Lover" GRRRREAT :razz:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-eRogTjqvQ

"Quiero Ser Tu Amante"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQo0HZjX9NY

[Boodikka]

Thanks Video, for the "OFYOFM" video. Is there any video footage of them performing the original "Cafe'"?

[White Raven]

Cafe was not made under the mark “La Bionda” ;-) but under “Disco Delivery Sound” (“D.D.Sound”), and I never heard about any video yet.
Bionda’s Bandido is the great too!!!

[remicks]

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ONE FOR YOU

Thanks VS … always loved this one … what a nice looking group …..

The song has the total package ….strings , horns , keyboard , guitars, drums, tambourine … castanets !!:grin:

Just now watching and listening …. I’m hearing a lot of Andrea True’s sound ....like ..... WHAT’S YOUR NAME WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER in it .

clever lyrics ......

I could show a girl like you such lovin' and affection
I don't want to make no speech ... this here ain't no election !! 8-)
*****

[KoolChris]

On the same album as "One for me, one for you", there's also "Song for Smokey and the Bandit" and "Hey woman", both kinda dorky lyric-wise as the Italians knew how, but also so good soundwise.

The La Bionda brothers also released quite a few records under the DD Sound name. My favorites would be "Café" with "She's not a disco lady", and mostly: the "Hootchie Cootchie" LP, with the title track, "My ballerina", and "Your kind of music". The tracks on these 2 albums were so danceable, so cleverly orchestrated and arranged, that I was thrilled at once, and set out to buy their other LPs... just to be disappointed with the 2 other Disco Delivery Sounds I found.
Nothing as creative and interesting as what had been displayed in their other albums. I didn't really like any of their following work either (Bandido, etc...)

[White Raven]

... just to be disappointed with the 2 other Disco Delivery Sounds I found.
Nothing as creative and interesting as what had been displayed in their other albums. I didn't really like any of their following work either (Bandido, etc...)

Please, don’t forget about “Burning Love”, made by D.D. Sound in 1977. Good work too, I mean! Concerning La Bionda, their “High Energy” - 1979 is not so bad – but it’s in another kind. About “I wanna Be Your Lover”, made in 1980 - agree with You – no any interesting places: that was the end.

[Boodikka]

Cafe was not made under the mark “La Bionda” ;-) but under “Disco Delivery Sound” (“D.D.Sound”), and I never heard about any video yet.
Bionda’s Bandido is the great too!!!

I was wondering if La Bionda did a video for the original "Cafe'" (with the full lyrics), since La Bionda IS DD Sound.

[Leal]

I've been looking for the lyrics to "She's not a disco lady" could anyone help
me to find them ?
Thank you.

[brianns]

I've been looking for the lyrics to "She's not a disco lady" could anyone help
me to find them ?
Thank you.

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Sittin' at a bar on a Friday night, alright (Alright!)
Waitin' in my car for the traffic light, alright (Alright!)
Thinkin' of my girl, what a Gyspy Queen, alright (Alright!)
Playin' my guitar in a Spanish dream, alright (Alright!)

She's not a disco lady, but she's alright, she's alright
She's just a high class baby, but she's alright, she's alright
She's not a disco lady, but she's alright, she's alright
She's just a high class baby, but she's alright, she's alright

Blue eyes, Black hair, Long legs all there,
Sweet talk, talk to me
Downtown, Silk gown, Fine friends shake down,
Rich girl, dance with me

Huggin' and a-kissin' in a Cadillac, alright (Alright!)
Run your naughty fingers up and down my back, alright (Alright!)
Wanna say "I love you" like a man in a trance, alright (Alright!)
All i gotta do now is to teach you to dance, alright (Alright!)

She's not a disco lady, but she's alright, she's alright
She's just a high class baby, but she's alright, she's alright
She's not a disco lady, but she's alright, she's alright
She's just a high class baby, but she's alright, she's alright

Blue eyes, Black hair, Long legs all there,
Sweet talk, talk to me
Downtown, Silk gown, Fine friends shake down,
Rich girl, dance with me

She's not a disco lady, but she's alright, she's alright
She's just a high class baby, but she's alright, she's alright
She's not a disco lady, but she's alright, she's alright
She's just a high class baby, but she's alright, she's alright

[shenkin2001]

YouTube - DD Sound (La Bionda) - 1234 Gimme some more
DD Sound video: 1234 Gimme Some More and also live performance from Switzerland ( april 2008):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWroa5ium5g

[remicks]

****
ONE FOR YOU

Thanks VS … always loved this one … what a nice looking group …..

The song has the total package ….strings , horns , keyboard , guitars, drums, tambourine … castanets !!:grin:

Just now watching and listening …. I’m hearing a lot of Andrea True’s sound ....like ..... WHAT’S YOUR NAME WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER in it .

clever lyrics ......

I could show a girl like you such lovin' and affection
I don't want to make no speech ... this here ain't no election !! 8-)
*****

here I thought I'd just now realized something clever , thinking of Andrea True while listening to this, although tonight I was thinking her NY NY YOU'VE GOT ME DANCING as a good one to mix with ...

Anyway, if anyone is thinking of getting a European pressing of the album because of the bonus gate-fold cover with full recording credits, song lyrics, and pictures which include one of the Biondas flipping you off ... that is a sound decision.
However,
if you're thinking you want that LP version because of the longer mix of ONE FOR ME ONE FOR YOU , I can save you some effort

Here's the US pressed version timed at 5:53:

ONE FOR YOU....

and here's the 6:23 version you'd get on the German pressing:

long version


they line up identically ... the longer version just plays out longer after the 5:53 mark .

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NOW ,

THESE have to be the worst , least-representative lyrics of the times , (lamenting the days when "... ladies were seen but not heard") ....applied to any disco song --- bar none .

from the same album :

HEY WOMAN (I'm a neanderthal)

( crank it up??? )

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maybe he was giving the finger to all those "modern" 70's ladies out there!

[JussiK]

The LaBionda brothers did disco already in 1976:
http://overfitted.ddcr.biz/?p=9806