Fun Fun - Happy Station

Fun Fun - Happy Station (1983)

Fun Fun fue un popular duo de pop sintético de la década de los 80's.Sus hits principales fueron "Colour My Love", "Happy Station" y "Baila Bolero"El grupo lo conformaban Francesca Merola y Roberta Servelli, que son recordadas por su estilo en la música dance. En 1983 ganaron popularidad con su primer éxito «Happy Station», que estuvo en el top de Billboard por varias semanas. Los éxitos "Colour my love" y "Baila Bolero" sonaron internacionalmente. Detrás del grupo estuvieron los músicos italianos Larry Pignagnoli y Spagna. Sus últimos éxitos fueron "Gimme loads lovin'" una mezcla de canciones y "Give me love" de 1990, con lo cual concluyó la «aventura» del grupoFun Fun were a popular Italian High Energy/synth pop musical group during the 1980s. Their hits included "Colour My Love" and "Baila Bolero".Producers Dario Raimondi and Alvaro Ugolini teamed up with studio vocalists Antonella Pepe, Angela Parisi and Ivana Spagna to create a bouncy, high-energy, dancefloor-friendly sound. Their first release, 1983's "Happy Station", found success in Italy and other parts of Europe, thanks to several extended versions, including the notorious "Scratch" version.Upon receiving invitations for live performances, Raimondi and Ugolini decided to use models for Fun Fun's public image rather than the vocalists themselves, a common tactic used in the European dance music scene by artists like Baltimora and The Real McCoy. "Have Fun!", the band's first full album from 1984, featured Francesca Merola and Roberta Servelli as the on-stage faces for the group. "Have Fun!" featured other popular dance singles, including "Give Me Your Love," "Living In Japan" and the band's oft-covered signature hit "Colour My Love", which became popular in American nightclubs because of its insistent synth bassline and easily-mixable percussion intro.After "Have Fun!", Spagna left Fun Fun and started a solo career, returning for occasional lyrical contributions. Fun Fun continued on with Merola and Elena Trastulli (who replaced Servelli) as models and a new musician/producer Larry Pignagnoli, releasing a second album, 1987's "Double Fun". "Double Fun" had several singles, including "Could This Be Love" and a cover of Spencer Davis Group's "Gimme Some Lovin'." However, the biggest hit from "Double Fun" was "Baila Bolero", a Spanish-flavored dance ballad. A megamix featuring most of the group's major hits, the "Mega Hit Mix", was released on a 12" single soon afterward.As the Italo-Disco and High-Energy music scene decreased in popularity toward the end of the 1980s, Fun Fun tried a new direction in 1989 with the House style single "Give Me Love", which had only minimal success. Several years later, the band released its last original song, "I'm Needin' You", in a 90's Eurodance style, to equally minimal success. Since then, the only Fun Fun releases have been best-of compilations or DJ remixes/reconstructions of their previous hits.Fun Fun war ein Italo-Disco-Projekt, das Mitte der 1980er Jahre mehrere Charterfolge verbuchen konnte.Zunächst war Spagna die Stimme von Fun Fun, dann übernahmen Antonelle Pepe und Angela Parisi diesen Part. Die Sängerinnen beschränkten sich auf die Studioarbeit. Dargestellt wurde der Act von den Models Roberta Servelli, die später durch Elena Trastulli ersetzt wurde, und Francesca Merola.Bereits die erste Single Happy Station, an der Spagna mitgeschrieben hatte, wurde Anfang 1984 ein Hit. Der Titel platzierte sich in den Top 20 der deutschen (Platz 11) und österreichischen Hitparade (Platz 15) und lief erfolgreich in den europäischen Diskotheken. Colour My Love stieg kurze Zeit später auf Platz 17 der Single-Charts in Deutschland. Das dazugehörige und von Dario Raimondi und Alvaro Ugolini produzierte Album Have Fun! kam im gleichen Jahr in die Läden.1985 knüpfte Give Me Your Love an diesen Erfolg an, eroberte aber auch eine Top-10-Position in der Schweiz (Platz 10) und obere Plätze der Billboard Hot-Dance-Music-Charts (Platz 11). Mit Baila Bolero aus dem Album Double Fun schafften es die Italienerinnen 1987 nochmals in die Schweizer Hitparade (Platz 16) und in die Billboard Dance-Charts (Platz 36).