Apropos Savage, koncertow i Disco Polo...

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Polecam

I have seen Disco Pollo on Polsat or heard "na targovisku"  several times and I must confirm your opinion.
You should maybe mention Papa Dance (Kamikadze wroc, Naj Story etc.) or Ex-Dance (Czarny Smog, Powrot Donalda) .It was very solid Polish contribution to italo. I just wonder when I am in Poland time to time, why I cannot find any titles of those groups on sale ...

Thank you Tomas for nice words about Polish contribiution to Italo Disco. Unfortunately, during 80s we haven't heard any music from other Eastern European countries (except some official "stars" like Karel Gott, Alla Pugachieva or Helena Vondrackova ;-) so I wonder how did you learn about Polish bands?
Regarding Polish CDs. You are wrong. There was Papa Dance "The best of" issued about a year or two ago and it should be still available if you are looking hard. Beside, there was (is) a great group called Top One. They started their carreer in 1989 with a song "Ciao Italia", supporting Italo Disco concerts (with Savage, F. Ventura, Macho Gang etc). They have also several good songs, simillar to italo, and are still available "na targowisku" as you said
Btw. Can you tell if there were any Italo group in Czechoslovakia during 80s? Recently I've learned that Eva aka Spy 71 (Take me Mr. Love) was from Hungary, Booys Next Door were from DDR! And of course Danuta (Touch My Heart) and Krystyna (Let The Night take the blame) were Polish!

...speaking about H.Vondrackova - I was spending New Year's Eve in Prague and I found a great CD there - it's Helena's album from 2000 called "Vodopad"... Have you heard it? Do you like any songs on it (like "Zmamena", "Jsem Tvym andelem" or "Dlouha noc")? How was this album received in Czech Republic? Do people like it? I would really like to know that as I'm honestly amazed with this CD and can't stop listening to it at all ;-)))))

z ta duszą (od kiedy automaty maja duszę ) i perfekcją......

owszem, były fajne ale nie róbmy z tego dzieł sztuki muzycznej... )))

takie fajowe kawałki z młodości.... )))))

Yeah... I saw this brand-new album in shops but didn't actually know if it's similar to the previous one and therefore I didn't buy it. But tell me - does it contain so many fabulous and great songs as "Vodobad"? Is it in the same / similar style or completely different? Is it a kind of "Best Of..." or something completely new? I'm really curious... Thanx for your info in advance and regards!

Musialbym w domu sprawdzic, bo wydaje mi sie to jakos znajome.
Jesli bede mial, zamelduje sie ponownie w tym miejscu.

Dear Netmaniac

I have seen  some  Papa Dance compilation , which was based especially on LP Nasz Zemski Eden, but excluded   Kamikadze wroc and other staff. I think that in the same edition are released other Polish bands but always without  key hits.

If we are speaking about Polish influence , there were 2 ways.
We had very conservative radio and TV.   I remember my shock , when I heard Electra's Quando Quando Czech Radio in1988, but it was exception. But even now if you ask people about italodisco, 99 % of them (including editors from radiostations ) immediately tells you Drupi, Ricchi a Poweri, Toto Cutugno etc.   Therefore I was listening to Polish Radio , watching Polish TV (Lista Przebojov PRII, Jarmark, Telexpres, Videomania) reading Panorama, Razem  and buying tapes form Laser Music, Takt  etc. "na targowiskach " . There was nice discussion in messageboard last December about broadcasting italodisco in Poland. You were lucky you had Program II of Polish Radio including Fabianski, you had Sierocki in Telexpres. Maybe you have just forgotten radio programme "Na Slaskiej fali" every Saturday after 1 PM where  they always played 2 italo songs. First  time I have heard   for example  Little Russian  right there.

Second way of inluence was that we just listened to Polish music , which was more progressive during that time.   From Polish music  I have solid collection of Lady Pank which I have seen twice on concert. Also I have some Kombi, Lombard, Kora i Maanam, Bajm,  Republika , Sztywny Pal Azji, 2+1, Perfect , Budka Suflera i mnogo innych.    

Czech contribution to italo is not big. Petr Kotvald scored in 1986 or 1987 on chart of Polish Panorama magazine  with Big City Calling. It seems to me he also released joint song with Papa Dance , but I will have to check it in my materials. There was very good italodisco singer Michal David but his fame probably did not cross Czech borders.  The best contribution to synth music not italodisco is Jan Hammer (you may know  his  Escape from TV album including Miami Vice theme).

Tom

jeśli chodzi o mnie ,to ja nie atakuję disco-polo - bardzo nie podoba mi się tylko utożsamianie italo z disco-polo.....No jak można postawić obok siebie Savage czy Gazebo obok jakiegoś Antka Szprychy czy innego Voyagera ?!.....
a co do lat 80-tych, to wcale nie było takiej dyskryminacji - było przecież bardzo dużo audycji w PUBLICZNYM programie II (ówczas jedyny stereo!), typu Piosenki na życzenie, Słuchajmy razem, Przeboje z maxi-singli, itp. itd., można też było zobaczyć  coś w TV......

I am attaching address of  Kotvald's official pages.


http://www.kotvald.cz/intro.html