CIAO records Obscure Italian Disco Label

[BWalsh]

Recently a handful of of pretty obscure promo releases have found the light of day from this label "Ciao" which was putting out disco records in the late 70's/early 80's. I'm trying to get a more complete list of what was released, but it's proving to be very difficult to find any info on this label... I do know that Thor Baldursson produced at least a few of these, and it looks like some of the 12"'s and 45's were only released as promo's. Discogs has a few of these on their site, but I know there are several others.

Aside from what they have listed, there are a couple I've come across:

Norma Jordan "No Obligation" lp
Norma Jordan "Disco Beat" 45
Adolf Stern "More...I Like It" 12"
& another release from Paul Mariano that I don't know the name of.
(discogs has Norma Jordan listed as Norma Jean, which is incorrect)

Does anyone here know anything else about this? Anyone with a discography? Anything? A few of these I've heard are quite nice.

[PierreConstantin]

Two albums by Bernardo Lanzetti a well-known singer, very appreciated here, ex-member of groups Acqua Fragile (1973-1974) and Premiata Forneria Marconi (1975-1979), whose latest album is 2008's Eclecticlanz. His style is "Italian variétés", kind of rock-oriented with a raspy voice. His two first solo albums were on Ciao label:
K.O. http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.O
Bernardo Lanzetti http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_Lanzetti_(1980)

KO

Lato A:
Hollywood
K.O.
Mi piace
Il temporale
Rock Urbano

Lato B:
Goodbye Goodbye
Campione
La tua storia
La regina del luna park
La cosa

CIAO Records s.r.l., 1979
Testi e Musiche: Bernardo Lanzetti
Arrangiamenti di Mauro Paoluzzi
Edizioni Itaca

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High Roller (Altra versione “Rock Urbano”) [versione in inglese di KO]

Side 1:
Twilight mastery
Back to dream town
Goodbye goodbye
Stranded
Tossin
Side 2:
August new breakfast
High Roller
Love the feelin
Unidentified lady
No stop flight

1980 Ciao Records

Bernardo Lanzetti (versione inglese: ”No Limits”)

Lato 1:
Amore di Saccarina
In taxi non vale
Un barista (nella sua serata libera)
Bad Rock & Roll
I sopravvissuti
Lato 2:
Generazione nucleare
Uno o nessuno
Un mostro nella mia vi-ta-ta
Sharanga!
Musica maledetta

Edizioni Itaca, Ciao Records, 1980

http://burgandr.altervista.org/bernardo_lanzetti/

[BWalsh]

Thanks Pierre!

I knew there were a couple Lanzetti releases, but had never heard of him. It seems strange to me since all of the other Ciao releases that I've heard have a much more synth-based disco sound. Some of the Norma Jordan tracks have an almost italo feel to them!

There is one promo 12" release I've seen that has a few tracks produced by a Adolf Stern. (There is no artist title on the label, just Stern's name in parenthesis underneath the track-listings) One song on the 12", "Menage A Trois" has some real raspy vocals...I was definitely include this in the Disco Sleaze genre...and I wondered who this vocalist was...sounds like another of these Italian Varietes/Chanson vocalists.

I came acrosss a website that has sound-clips to a few releases on Ciao (cosmicdudes.com), there you can hear the Stern 12", Norma Jordan "Feel Me" lp, & Paul Marino's "Stuntman". Youtube also has Norma Jordans "Disco Beat" 45. Check them out and let me know what you think!

Any more info?

[el_chad]

does anybody have any of adolf sterrn copies? or have any info on how to get one?
thanks

Recently a handful of of pretty obscure promo releases have found the light of day from this label "Ciao" which was putting out disco records in the late 70's/early 80's. I'm trying to get a more complete list of what was released, but it's proving to be very difficult to find any info on this label... I do know that Thor Baldursson produced at least a few of these, and it looks like some of the 12"'s and 45's were only released as promo's. Discogs has a few of these on their site, but I know there are several others.

Aside from what they have listed, there are a couple I've come across:

Norma Jordan "No Obligation" lp
Norma Jordan "Disco Beat" 45
Adolf Stern "More...I Like It" 12"
& another release from Paul Mariano that I don't know the name of.
(discogs has Norma Jordan listed as Norma Jean, which is incorrect)

Does anyone here know anything else about this? Anyone with a discography? Anything? A few of these I've heard are quite nice.

[el_chad]

does anybody have a copy of the adolf stern 12"? or the 7"? any of the two....
and maybe trade? or sell?
thanks

[italocarlito]

would SO MUCH looove to get my hands on this, i love this song.........7" is more affordable than the promo 12" but it's very hard to find as well........so if anyone has it, please let me know! thanks