Donna Summer - I Feel Love (1977) + cover versions

May 1977: LaDonna Andrea Gaines, a.k.a. Donna Summer, released her album I Remember Yesterday, produced by Giorgio Moroder. The album contained tracks which should represent several decades of the 20th century: 'I Remember Yesterday' represented the 1940s, 'Love's Unkind' the 50s and 'Back in Love Again' the 60s. The album concluded with the then futuristic 'I Feel Love'.

As with Donna's four previous albums, different record labels distributed her work in different nations. Some of the labels chose to release the ballad 'Can't We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over)' as the first single, with 'I Feel Love' as the B-side, but the impact of the song was so huge that it was soon released internationally as a standalone A-side.
Previous disco tracks had usually been backed by an acoustic orchestra, while 'I Feel Love' was the first ever track to use an entirely synthesized backing track, which would later help develop the music genres Dance and Techno. The repetitive vocals over the backing track helped make the song a massive hit. It finally gave Donna the follow-up 'Love to Love You Baby'.
'I Feel Love' put Donna Summer firmly in her place as the leading female artist of Disco.
The track is so genius that it has been covered endless times, from likely artists such as Blondie, Jimmy Somerville & Marc Almond and Madonna to such unlikely groups as he Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Finnish Psychadelic Rock band Kingston Wall.
Blatant samples of the basic bass track were used by Cher ('All Or Nothing' in 1998) and Moloko ('Sing It Back' in 1999).
Last Year, Gucci ran a TV advertising campaign video, directed by Chris Cunningham, for their scent Flora, which used the song in a trace version.

Donna Summer - I Feel Love (1977)
UK#1, AT#1, NL#1, CH#2, NZ#2, DE#3, SWE#5, US#6, NOR#8, FR#33,





Blondie - I Feel Love (1979)



Bronski Beat & Marc Almond - I Feel Love/Johnny Remember Me (1985)



Donna Summer - I Feel Love (Rollo Remix) (1995)



Vanessa Mae - I Feel Love (1997)



Cher - All Or Nothing (1998)



Moloko - Sing It Back (1999)



Red Hot Chilli Peppers - I Feel Love (live album 2004)



Madonna - I Feel Love (live 2006)



Donna Summer - I Feel Love (Gucci 'Flora' Advertising Campaign) (2010)
video directed by Chris Cunningham

Gibson Brothers - Que Sera Mi Vida (1980)

Gibson Brothers - Que Sera Mi Vida (1980)
UK#5



Lyrics:

Que Sera Mi Vida by The Gibson Brothers
If you should go, go, go, go, go, go,
If you should go, go, go, go, go, go,
If you should go, go, go, go, go, go,
If you should go, go, go, go, go, go.

Que sera mi vida.
How I'm gonna live without your love
if ever you should go.
Que sera mi vida.
How I'm gonna find my way alone
if ever you should go.

How can I know what I would do
if I was really losing you
when it isn't true
(when it isn't true)
How can I know how I'd react
before I have to face the fact
of a broken heart.

If you should go, go, go, go, go, go,...

Que sera mi vida,...

How can I see you miles away
I know too well you gonna stay
ev'ry night and day
ev'ry night and day
you never know just what you've got
you only feel it means a lot
when it's gone and lost.

If you should go, go, go, go, go, go,...

Que sera mi vida,...

Que sera mi vida ?

'Marky' Mark Wahlberg

There was Donnie (of New Kids On The Block fame) and then there is his brother Mark Wahlberg, youngest of nine siblings from Dorchester, suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, a.k.a. Marky Mark.

Apart from being an (ex-)Rapper, Mark is also Actor, as well as TV and Film Producer. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier years, and became famous for his 1991 debut as a rap musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. He was named #1 on VH1's 40 Hottest Hotties of the 90's.
Mark's family is of Irish, English, Swedish and French Canadian ancestry and had a Roman Catholic upbringing.

At age of thirteen, he, along with his brother Donnie, had been one of New Kids On The Block's original members, but, uninterested in the group's bubblegum pop and squeaky-clean image, he soon quit. It was his departure that eventually allowed Joe McIntyre to take his place as the fifth member of the group. Mark began recording as Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch, earning a hit with 'Good Vibrations', produced by Donnie.
He later collaborated with the Prince Ital Joe on the album Life in the Streets. The project combined Rap and Ragga vocals with strong Eurodance music (as in the singles Happy People and United, courtesy of Frank Peterson and Alex Christensen as producers.
Mark is known for his impressive physique. He first displayed it in the Good Vibrations music video and most prominently in a series of underwear ads for Calvin Klein shot by Herb Ritts, following it with Calvin Klein TV ads, which would sometimes feature Mark exclusively or accompanied by model Kate Moss. Annie Leibovitz also shot a famous session of Mark Wahlberg in underwear for Vanity Fair's annual Hall of Fame issue.

Mark then began an acting career, making his debut in the 1993 TV movie The Substitute. His big screen debut came the next year, with the Danny DeVito feature Renaissance Man. A basketball fanatic, he caught the attention of critics after appearing in The Basketball Diaries in 1995, playing the role of Mickey alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, in a film adaptation of the Jim Carroll book of the same name. He also starred in the 1996 James Foley thriller Fear.
He has earned many positive reviews after successful movies like Boogie Nights as Dirk Diggler, Three Kings, The Perfect Storm, The Italian Job, and Four Brothers. Mark was originally cast as Linus Caldwell in Ocean's Eleven; Matt Damon played the role instead. The two later worked together in The Departed. While he was also considered for a role in the film Brokeback Mountain and it being originally intended to star him and Joaquin Phoenix, he was uncomfortable with the film's sex scenes and his role ultimately went to Jake Gyllenhaal.

Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch - Good Vibrations
US#1, SWE#1, CH#1, NOR#2, DE#3, AUS#4, NZ#8, NL#10, UK#14, AT#15, IRL#16, FR#35



Marky Mark feat. Prince Ital Joe - United
DE#4



Marky Mark feat. Prince Ital Joe - Happy People
DE#1

Black Box

One of the leading exponents of a wave of Italian house music that flourished on the dancefloors of the late 80s and early 90s, Black Box comprised of three Italian studio musicians: Daniele Davoli, known as DJ Lelewel in Italy, largely at the Marabu Starlight Club and responsible for the hit single 'Grand Piano', another prime example of sampled Italo-house, Mirko Limoni, the computer and keyboard whizz kid of the trio, and Valerio Semplici, a clarinet teacher playing in the Music Orchestra in Bologna. Collectively they are known as Groove Groove Melody. Based in the Reggio Emilia area in Northern Italy, the team made use of Catherine Quinol as a front woman for Black Box. Born in Pointe a Pitre, on French-Caribbean island Guadeloupe, Catherine was raised in Paris, where she completed her studies. She made her debut in the haute couture world at an early age, working as a model for famous fashion designers.

Daniele, Mirko and Valerio noticed her in a disco and launched her music career of lip-synching to pre-recorded Black Box music tracks in both music videos and live performances. Catherine never actually contributed musically to any of Black Box's hits.
The British music industry soon spotted Ride On Time, as the first one of a dozen singles a year the trio was churning out. After securing international copyright, of their re-production of Loletta Holloway's 'Love Sensation', it became the first of a series of Italian house records to crossover to the UK charts, staying at UK#1 for six weeks in 1989, becoming the best dance selling record of all times. It was remixed and re-released several times thereafter.
Although this was by far Black Box's biggest hit, they didn't make much money from it as Loleatta Holloway sued them. There is still no love lost between them. Loleatta got an expensive fur coat out of the compensation money they had to pay her. Other producers later also covered (such as the Freemasons) and sampled Loleatta's vocals from 'Love Sensation', including Cevin Fisher on '(You Got Me) Burning Up' and Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch on 'Good Vibrations', although unlike Black Box, both credited Loleatta Holloway.
After the success of the debut single, Black Box followed up with a string of follow-ups, all included in their 1990 album Dreamland.
The Groove Groove Melody team were also behind the production of several other synonyms, one of them being Starlight's 'Numero Uno'.

Black Box - Ride On Time (1989)
UK#1, IRL#1, SWE#2, AUS#2, FR#3, DE#5, CH#5, NOR#5, AT#8, US#39



Black Box - Everybody Everybody



Black Box - I Don't Know Anybody Else



Black Box - Strike It Up



Black Box - Fantasy

Army of Lovers - Massive Luxury Overdose (1991)

The founding members of the Army Of Lovers, Alexander Bard, Jean-Pierre Barda and Camilla Henemark, a.k.a. La Camilla, hail from Stockholm, Sweden. The name of the band alludes to a documentary 'Armee der Liebenden oder Revolte der Perversen' about the German gay rights activist Rosa von Praunheim, the title of which in turn alludes to the Theban Band. During their time together, Army Of Lovers became famous for their outlandish visual appearance, many of their costumes were created by Camilla Thulin, and their high camp music videos directed by Fredrik Boklund, of which some of which were banned even by MTV.

Army Of Lovers - Crucified
FIN#1, BE#1, NL#2, AT#3, DE#5, CH#6, US#6, SWE#8, FR#22, UK#31



Army Of Lovers - Obsession
FIN#1, SWE#2, CH#5, DE#7, US#11, AT#12, FR#24, UK#67



Army Of Lovers - Ride The Bullet
SWE#22, UK#67



Army Of Lovers - My Army Of Lovers
SWE#9, FIN#12, FR#41