List of Eurodisco artists

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The following is a list of Eurodisco artists and songs, divided in two sections. The first section includes notable Eurodisco groups and solo artists. The second section includes Eurodisco songs. Solo artists are listed alphabetically by last name while groups are listed alphabetically by the first letter (not including the prefix "the", "a" or "an"). Eurodisco songs by non-Eurodisco artists are also included.

Contents
ArtistsSongs (1970s1980s1990s2000s2010s2020s) • References

Artists[edit]

Songs[edit]

1970s[edit]

Year Artist Song
1975 Donna Summer "Love to Love You Baby"[12][13][14]
Silver Convention "Fly, Robin, Fly"[15]
1976 Cerrone "Love in C Minor"[16]
1977 Donna Summer "I Feel Love"[17][18]
Baccara "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie"[19]
1978 Rod Stewart "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"[20]
Giorgio Moroder "Chase"[21]
1979 Umberto Tozzi "Gloria"[22]

1980s[edit]

Year Artist Song
1980 Blondie "Call Me"[23][24]
1981 ABBA "Lay All Your Love on Me"[25]
1982 Laura Branigan "Gloria"[26]
Klein + M.B.O. "Dirty Talk"[27]
Trio "Da Da Da"[28]
1983 Berlin "Sex (I'm a ...)"[29]
New Order "Blue Monday"[30]
Irene Cara "Flashdance... What a Feeling"[31][32]
1984 Magazine 60 "Don Quichotte (No Están Aquí)"[33]
Raf "Self Control"[34]
Fancy "Slice Me Nice"[35]
Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey "Together in Electric Dreams"[36]
Bronski Beat "Smalltown Boy"[37]
Fun Fun "Colour My Love"[38]
Laura Branigan "Satisfaction"[39]
1985 Modern Talking "Brother Louie"[40]
1986 Erasure "Oh L'amour"[41]
Desireless "Voyage, voyage"[42]
Spagna "Easy Lady"[43]
1989 Sabrina "Gringo"[44]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Rock Fusion No Big Thing In Norwegian Discotheques". Billboard. Retrieved 2024-06-04. ... he also quotes Euro-disco duo Baccara as an example of an act bro- ken in discos...
  2. ^ "Discoteca '80: Cluj-Napoca to welcome some of the biggest Eurodisco artists in 2023". Romania Insider. Retrieved 2024-06-04.
  3. ^ "Discoteca '80: Cluj-Napoca to welcome some of the biggest Eurodisco artists in 2023". Romania Insider. Retrieved 2024-06-04.
  4. ^ Tim Lawrence (2003), Love saves the day: a history of American dance music culture, 1970–1979, pp. 256–57, ISBN 0822331985
  5. ^ Henderson, Alex. "Dead or Alive: Rip It Up > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
  6. ^ "Nuit de folie, retour sur LE tube de début de soirée". Hier soir à Paris. 2004-08-30. Retrieved 2024-06-04.
  7. ^ "NEW AND NOTEWORTHY". Billboard. Retrieved 2024-06-04. ... former lead singer of the Eurodisco group Eruption brings a refined...
  8. ^ Krettenauer, Thomas (2017). "Hit Men: Giorgio Moroder, Frank Farian and the eurodisco sound of the 1970s/80s". In Michael Ahlers; Jacke, Christoph (eds.). Perspectives on German Popular Music. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-4724-7962-4.
  9. ^ Allen, Jeremy (14 August 2015). "Giorgio Moroder – 10 of the best". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  10. ^ "Northern Exposure soundtrack". EW.com. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  11. ^ "Our guest on 09.11.2008 – DW – 11/10/2008". Deutsche Welle. September 11, 2008. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  12. ^ Krettenauer, Thomas (2017). "Hit Men: Giorgio Moroder, Frank Farian and the eurodisco sound of the 1970s/80s". In Ahlers, Michael; Jacke, Christoph (eds.). Perspectives on German Popular Music. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-4724-7962-4.
  13. ^ "Donna Summer". The Daily Telegraph. 17 May 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  14. ^ Allen, Jeremy (14 August 2015). "Giorgio Moroder – 10 of the best". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  15. ^ George, Nelson (1988). The Death of Rhythm and Blues. Penguin Books. ISBN 0142004081. Silver Convention's "Fly Robin Fly" was the first Eurodisco crossover hit direct from Munich.
  16. ^ Stratton, Jon (31 October 2022). Spectacle, Fashion and the Dancing Experience in Britain, 1960-1990. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 9783031090127 – via Google Books.
  17. ^ Adelt, Ulricht (2016). Krautrock: German Music in the Seventies. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 9780472053193. Retrieved January 29, 2020. (page 138)
  18. ^ Krettenauer, Thomas (2017). "Hit Men: Giorgio Moroder, Frank Farian and the eurodisco sound of the 1970s/80s". In Ahlers, Michael; Jacke, Christoph (eds.). Perspectives on German Popular Music. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-4724-7962-4.
  19. ^ Ross, Gemma. "'YES SIR, I CAN BOOGIE' SINGER MARIA MENDIOLA HAS DIED AGED 69". Mixmag. Retrieved 3 September 2023. The Euro disco anthem fetched a Guinness World Record for the highest-selling female duo record to date selling 16 million copies.
  20. ^ Mason, Stewart. "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? - Rod Stewart | Song Info". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  21. ^ "Giorgio Moroder". CMJ New Music. May 2000. Retrieved 28 August 2023. Giorgio Moroder's "The Chase" isn't necessarily a familiar name, but you'd recognize it if you heard it: it's the ur- Eurodisco instrumental, an interlocking set of minor-key patterns that's as classic as late-night get-up-and-boogie background music gets, created by the man who produced most of Donna Summer's hits.
  22. ^ "Chilean film 'Gloria' celebrates power of vibrant woman in midlife". The Columbus Dispatch. 14 February 2014. Retrieved 30 August 2023. He came upon Umberto Tozzi's original Italian Euro-disco version of the song Gloria, known to many Americans through Laura Branigan's 1982 hit cover.
  23. ^ Glickman, Simon (December 1, 1998). "Blondie/Deborah Harry/Jimmy Destri". In Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel (eds.). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Detroit: Visible Ink Press. p. 122.
  24. ^ David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music. 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2023. The influence of Eurodisco was soon felt in America, where Moroder provided Blondie with their biggest US chart hit ('Call Me'), and Laura Brannigan would also hit Number One with a cover of the Italian pop hit 'Gloria'.
  25. ^ Jussi Kantonen, Alan Jones (2011). Saturday Night Forever The Story of Disco. Mainstream Publishing. ISBN 9781907195914 – via Google Books. However, Abba's undoubted disco masterpiece is the 12-inch version of "Lay All Your Love on Me" taken from their Super Trouper album, a galloping ode to tuneful romance, juiced up with reverberating frills and stop-start gimmicks. It's also the purest slice of Eurodisco it would be possible to find anywhere in the common market of clubland.
  26. ^ Holden, Stephen (18 September 1984). "MUSIC/NOTED IN BRIEF; ; Branigan's Top-40 Style At Avery Fisher Hall". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 June 2024. Miss Branigan, who appeared at Avery Fisher Hall on Friday, made her breakthrough several years ago with Gloria, one of the last hits produced in the Eurodisco style popularized by Donna Summer.
  27. ^ Larry Grossberg, Simon Frith, Tony Bennett, Graeme Turner, John Shepherd (19 August 2005). "Rock and Popular Music - Politics, Policies, Institutions". Taylor & Francis. The key influences included tracks like 'Tittle Tattle' by Barri Centro and 'Dirty Talk' by Klein & MBO-Euro disco which used heavily sequenced bass lines.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  28. ^ Sheffield, Rob (September 27, 2022). "100 Best Songs of 1982". Rolling Stone. Retrieved September 9, 2023. Trio found the formula for world-beating pop success in 1982: an awesomely sub-minimal Ramones-level stab at DIY Eurodisco.
  29. ^ "Moroder Week: Day 4 – Berlin – No More Words 12". Post-Punk Monk.
  30. ^ King, Richard (2012). How Soon is Now? The Madmen and Mavericks who Made Independent Music 1975-2005. Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571278329 – via Google Books. "Blue Monday" was us getting into Euro disco, says Stephen Morris, New Order's drummer.
  31. ^ Breihan, Tom. "The Number Ones: Irene Cara's "Flashdance… What A Feeling". Stereogum.
  32. ^ "What a Feelin' - Irene Cara". Allmusic.
  33. ^ "CMJ New Music Monthly - NIGHTCLUBBING DISCO REISSUES AND BEYOND". CMJ New Music. Its companion The Best Disco In Town focuses more on Eurodisco, leading off with the insane novelty "Don Quichotte" by Magazine 60.
  34. ^ "Laura Branigan". The Independent. 2004-08-30. Archived from the original on 2010-09-23. Retrieved 2023-09-02. The following year, her disco-slanted version of "Self Control", the Euro-disco smash by RAF, crossed from the Hi-NRG charts to the pop listings and became Branigan's biggest UK hit.
  35. ^ "Slice Me Nice by Fancy (German Singer)". WhoSampled.
  36. ^ Chin, Brian (6 October 1984). "Dance Trax". Billboard. Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey's "Together In Electric Dreams" is almost too perfect a pop-disco record and a natural for the Eurodisco crowd
  37. ^ "Dance Trax". Billboard. ... Bronski Beat, still unsigned for the U.S. according to London Re cords' U.K. office, has released its second single, "Why?," on Forbidden Fruit Like the breakthrough single, "Smalltown Boy," the new track combines Euro disco drive...
  38. ^ "Dance TRAX". Billboard. 24 November 1984. Fun Fun's "Color My Love" is mellifluous Euro-disco most of the way through.
  39. ^ "Laura Branigan – Self Control". AllMusic. Retrieved March 22, 2023. The rest of album isn't weaker, especially Laura's best Euro disco track 'Satisfaction'.
  40. ^ Pitrolo, Flora; Zubak, Marko (28 March 2022). Global Dance Cultures in the 1970s and 1980s. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 9783030919955 – via Google Books. "Zubi zubi zubi", which appears as the opening scene of Dance Dance, was modelled on the Eurodisco content of Modern Talking's 1986 hit, "Brother Louie".
  41. ^ Donohue, Simon (11 August 2004). "Erasure - Oh L'Amour (Remixed) (Mute Records)". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  42. ^ Mac Dougall, David (20 April 2022). "Touts les hits! French songs that made it big in Britain". Euronews. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  43. ^ "IVANA SPAGNA". Billboard. Retrieved 3 September 2023. Best-known outside of Italy for her '80s Euro-disco smash "Easy Lady," Ivana Spagna has reinvented herself as a '90s pop songstress.
  44. ^ Europe's Stars of '80s Dance Pop: 32 International Music. 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2023. Giorgio Moroder-penned single "Like a Yo Yo" (which reached the top of the Finnish chart) and "Gringo," a slice of revved-up Euro-disco with a western theme (co-written by the artist) that enjoyed Top 10 status in Italy and was a sizeable success in Germany.