A number of years ago, I was driving with my kids and we were listening to an oldies station. A certain song came on the radio. One of my girls announced, "You really have to be talented to make a song like this." The song in question? "Fly, Robin, Fly".
Silver Convention was a German group. Not sure how fluent in English they were, but they had two huge disco hits ("Fly, Robin, Fly" and "Get Up and Boogie") and each only had 6 words in the entire song. In 1976 we drove from London to Rome and back again and heard both of the songs over and over, along with "Mamma Mia" and "Dancing Queen" and a couple of other ABBA hits. We spent three days at a hotel on the Adriatic outside of Rimini and part of the reason it was so cheap was probably that it was next door to a disco, where they seemed to play "Get Up and Boogie" for hours every night. The bass shook the walls. If I could sleep through that I can sleep through anything.
I looked it up. It was a brand new hotel (at the time) called Hotel Delle Najioni in S. Giuliano del Mare. It cost us Less than $10 a night. The Adriatic was very, very warm and it was so shallow there that you had to wade out about half a mile until it was even waist deep. Jackie doesn't eat mussels, the local favorite there, so her typical dinner was spaghetti followed by pizza. I had ravioli followed by mussels. With a beer it cost us about $3 each.
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To say I prefer the 60's list would be an understatement.
A number of years ago, I was driving with my kids and we were listening to an oldies station. A certain song came on the radio. One of my girls announced, "You really have to be talented to make a song like this." The song in question? "Fly, Robin, Fly".
"Another One Bites the Dust"...on the SOUL charts? I'm not sure I'll survive the shock.
Hey, if Floyd Cramer can make it, . . .
Silver Convention was a German group. Not sure how fluent in English they were, but they had two huge disco hits ("Fly, Robin, Fly" and "Get Up and Boogie") and each only had 6 words in the entire song. In 1976 we drove from London to Rome and back again and heard both of the songs over and over, along with "Mamma Mia" and "Dancing Queen" and a couple of other ABBA hits. We spent three days at a hotel on the Adriatic outside of Rimini and part of the reason it was so cheap was probably that it was next door to a disco, where they seemed to play "Get Up and Boogie" for hours every night. The bass shook the walls. If I could sleep through that I can sleep through anything.
Some great memories there, Jeff.
I looked it up. It was a brand new hotel (at the time) called Hotel Delle Najioni in S. Giuliano del Mare. It cost us Less than $10 a night. The Adriatic was very, very warm and it was so shallow there that you had to wade out about half a mile until it was even waist deep. Jackie doesn't eat mussels, the local favorite there, so her typical dinner was spaghetti followed by pizza. I had ravioli followed by mussels. With a beer it cost us about $3 each.
I miss the old days.
Me too.
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