HIGH FASHION

**Paulo** · March 5th, 2005, 07:46 PM

26th, february, saturday, I've been to a disco... Doesn't it sound like I was in the 70's?...

... We have a night club in Rio which plays all those classics which no one can stand anymore. But around 3AM they also play a little less obvious music. But this time they really played something obscure: it was a song by a group called HIGH FASHION.

Since I didn't know the song (and loved it) I could not leave the disco without asking the name of it to the DJ. He mentioned the group HIGH FASHION, but I couldn't get the name of the song, because of the noise. I didn't insist because I was a bit drunk and didn't want to become a problem to anyone there.

It was definitely 80's stuff. Does anyone have any info about this "group"? Albums? "Famous" songs? etc...

**Videoskooter** · March 5th, 2005, 07:53 PM

Paulo, do you mean High Fashion and "Feeling lucky lately"?

This: http://www.discomusic.com/records-more/2880_0_2_0_C/

And: http://www.discomusic.com/cds-more/860_0_3_0_C/

**DISCODISK** · March 5th, 2005, 07:54 PM

hold on? feelin lucky lately? breakup?

**SandraDee** · March 5th, 2005, 08:07 PM

High Fashion featured 2 gals & 1 guy on vocals. The 2 gals went on to have successful solo careers in the 80s - Alyson Williams & Meli'sa Morgan. Their '82 LP has recently become available on CD & it's brilliant, especially the slowey 'I Want To Be Everything'.

**K-Bee** · March 6th, 2005, 03:43 AM

Ahhh Yet another quality project from the creative mind of Jaques Fred Petrus!
Essential stuff!

**Karlos** · March 7th, 2005, 07:45 AM

If my memory serves me right Peggi Blue sang with High Fashion. As for "Feeling lucky Lately" it has my all time favourite intro to a record.. :D :D

**SandraDee** · March 7th, 2005, 04:13 PM

Originally Written by Karlos

As for "Feeling lucky Lately" it has my all time favourite intro to a record.. :D :D

I totally agree with you. Can you imagine my annoyance when in 1982 I bought the UK 12" of this classic track & found they had totally cut off that fab intro! :evil: :cry: Needless to say I got hold of the LP pretty damn quick! :P

**billywho** · March 7th, 2005, 05:14 PM

Originally Written by SandraDee

High Fashion featured 2 gals & 1 guy on vocals. The 2 gals went on to have successful solo careers in the 80s - Alyson Williams & Meli'sa Morgan. Their '82 LP has recently become available on CD & it's brilliant, especially the slowey 'I Want To Be Everything'.

This is indeed a great song. It reminds me of Kashif's "Love Changes", featuring.....Meli'sa Morgan. Now there's a connection.

**Paulo** · March 26th, 2005, 10:07 PM

Thank you guys and girls who replied.

In the early 80's, when 70's disco was over , the subsequent disco sound never made it to clubs over here (hi-nrg or whatever).

Night-clubs here began to play a type of brazilian music called (at that time) GAFIEIRA... a type of slower "samba".

They also played recent 70's disco classics and "avant-garde" techno-pop and new wave (Soft Cell, Thomas Dolby, Human League, Duran Duran).

So what's early 80's classics to you, it remains a mystery to me.

Reading the names of the songs you wrote, it was FEELING LUCKYLY LATE the one I heard that night.

I've ordered the CD. I am expecting to receive it in 2 months.

As soon as I receive it I'll comment on it. What you people think of it??