Vivien Vee
Give Me A Break b/w Remember (Launch 12")
Launch Records (US) / 1980 / NC 1003
12" Disco single 33 ⅓ rpm VInyl record
Genre: Dance
Producer: Giancarlo Meo
Arranged by: Claudio Simonetti
Side A
Give Me A Break (8:55)
Side B
Remember (9:08)
Here's a rare Launch 12 inch of "Give Me A Break" by Vivien Vee.
Vivien Vee (Viviana Andreattini), had a huge Disco hit with 1980's "Giv Me A Break." It originally appeared on the Italian label, Banana Records, which is hard to find nowadays. Unidisc Records however has re-released it numerous times.
"Remember" is another decent song, but I dare anyone to tell me what the heck Vivien Vee is singing about in that song.
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Jan 21, 2004 | 7:17 amThank you for checking into Vivien Vee's real name. Also a big thank you for all the records you have submitted to the Disco Records Vault. Click on "djcoolcut" in his comment above to see all the great rare Disco records he has submitted.
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Jan 21, 2004 | 2:36 am
Asked directly to Simonetti: Vivien Vee's real name is Viviana Andreattini.
"Remember?" I'll tell you: the lyrics were about a love before it went wrong. I much prefer this dark, moody production to the ditzy, singsong "A" side.
Vivien stetched her young pipes as far as they will go on "Remember," a fine match for the producers' sturm-und-drang synthesizer work.
Can someone can tell me what I don't know about Italo-disco's link with black urban disco records in the early 80's? I sometimes wonder, when I hear Italodisco Jimmy Ross' "First True Love Affair," which was a hit in Black America, or less groovy but soulfully-sung Italo cuts like "Remember," or Hemyl's "Keep on Rockin'" from the mid-80's. Obviously, the folks in Milan and Rome were showin' the love...but, specifics...please?