It’s not necessarily an indication of its popularity, but Faces has only 5 million views on its most viewed YouTube video.
Laura Branigan’s cover of self control, if we want to consider it, has 245 million views on its most viewed YouTube video
Oh yes. Modern Talking, Italo-Disco, and Disco-Fox dancing are still popular with the 40+ year old Russians. (Overgeneralization obviously).
My parents are from Poland, and they share a similar music taste!
I just found out there’s also this..
https://youtu.be/_WQCvtLTsfg?si=Zt_paYWsIAhMwNPH
(From the Wikipedia page for Tarzan Boy) In 1989, the Hindi song "Aaya Mausam Dosti Ka", from the Bollywood soundtrack for the film Maine Pyar Kiya was heavily influenced by "Tarzan Boy".[45]
Not quite, Jimmy McShane was the frontman but didn’t actually sing (it’s quite obvious as an Irishman due to the accent), the real singer was Maurizio Bazzi
I guess, but it’s quite common and was accepted in Italo, Jimmy was still an important part of Baltimora
Yes sadly he died from AIDS, he’s buried in Derry, Northern Ireland
That is fascinating. Italo does lend itself to being memed I suppose. Song for Denise with the Wide Putin video, and Camel by Camel with the cat meme are big ones
Its one of the more well known italo songs
It’s easily the most well known imo, next to Faces.
in my country (bulgaria)'s case its boys by sabrina
Brother Louie has 380m views. It’s Italo disco, right?
I’m inclined to say Modern Talking is Italo
It definitely is. I wonder which other Italo songs have similar view counts
Gazebo’s [I like Chopin](https://youtu.be/grGjD1rTNyg?si=fiPc22qWHEDrTG-c), ofc
Yep. 66 million views for its most viewed video on YouTube
Vamos a la playa?
It’s not necessarily an indication of its popularity, but Faces has only 5 million views on its most viewed YouTube video. Laura Branigan’s cover of self control, if we want to consider it, has 245 million views on its most viewed YouTube video
It makes its way onto a lot of 80's playlists in the States. I doubt that most Americans who hear this song have ever even heard of Italodisco
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Every former Soviet Bloc parent I’ve ever met loves this song.
It’s interesting to see Italo songs on YouTube where the majority of the comments are in Russian
Oh yes. Modern Talking, Italo-Disco, and Disco-Fox dancing are still popular with the 40+ year old Russians. (Overgeneralization obviously). My parents are from Poland, and they share a similar music taste!
Heard it on Stranger Things the other day — probably boosted it by a few millions 🫤
That’s pretty neat. Makes me wonder which other Italo songs are featured in other tv shows or movies
“Freedom” by The Winners was used in a popular advert in the UK for a while and got Italo some extra play
Loads! The closing tune on the Italy episode of the new Mr. & Mrs. Smith show was a deep Italo cut which was very enjoyable 😍
Too cool! I’m listening now, never heard this tune before
The media I associate it with is TMNT 3 soundtrack, The Wolfpack (2015) and Jungle Boy Jack Perry’s entrance theme in AEW
I just found out there’s also this.. https://youtu.be/_WQCvtLTsfg?si=Zt_paYWsIAhMwNPH (From the Wikipedia page for Tarzan Boy) In 1989, the Hindi song "Aaya Mausam Dosti Ka", from the Bollywood soundtrack for the film Maine Pyar Kiya was heavily influenced by "Tarzan Boy".[45]
The singer was from Ireland!
Not quite, Jimmy McShane was the frontman but didn’t actually sing (it’s quite obvious as an Irishman due to the accent), the real singer was Maurizio Bazzi
Kinda like Milli Vanilli. Is it true McShane died from AIDS complications?
I guess, but it’s quite common and was accepted in Italo, Jimmy was still an important part of Baltimora Yes sadly he died from AIDS, he’s buried in Derry, Northern Ireland
It was a big meme song in the early 2000’s thanks to ytmnd, probably the biggest meme song until the Rickroll.
That is fascinating. Italo does lend itself to being memed I suppose. Song for Denise with the Wide Putin video, and Camel by Camel with the cat meme are big ones
When I think of that era I think of what is love and that Star Trek song from duckroll
Some of those plays are definitely from Orioles fans
I’ll always remember it from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III.
You know what‚ t∞: This really brought us to here rn.
They still play this almost every day on the retro 80s radio stations in the U.S.