Silver Convention: Silver Convention - 1975
This trio of German female singers produced by a couple of electro disco studio wizards became unlikely early disco hitmakers.
It was melodic but stomping early disco fare with that typically European sound to it - sweeping synthesised strings, clunking but melodic piano, solid "proper" funky drums and lots of “oooh oooh” female vocals. Similar to this were Andrea True Connection (particularly on the piano sound), Amanda Lear and Donna Summer’s Belotte-Moroder produced material. The big hit from the album was the haunting and infectious Fly Robin Fly, which was followed up with a great cut from their next album in the equally catchy Get Up And Boogie.
To be honest, it is only really these two, together with Save Me and possibly Son Of A Gun that stand up as proper disco classics. The rest of the material is early ABBA-esque Euro-pop, on the whole, although the staccato Heart Of Stone has a great funky bass line, it has to be said.
The original album only seems to be available on streaming services via a “needle drop” recording sourced from the original vinyl, which is full of clearly audible scratches and has a muffled, lifeless sound quality. Some of the popular tracks from the album can be accessed via compilations and sound infinitely better.
