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shawaazu

Oh dear!

I thought Green Olives - Jive Into The Night was sung by a woman XD

That's nothing. Mike Mareen does all the vocals on Love Spy. Even the one that sounds like a woman. I saw him perform live on a German video clip. Of course he could be lip-syncing? But why lip-synch the female part?

Why do eurobeat vocalists use so many different names?

Nobody who hear other music styles, can understand it, some one dont believe it. I ask, why Modern Talking can make 12 different albums as Modern talking, or Hard Rock bands even so.

What is the win of this method to use different names?

Money!

32 tracks by the same artist in one year don't sell. 16 times 2 tracks does. Also, many vocalists work for multiple labels and most aliases are bound to a label so they have to change it when working for another.

That's exactly Italian style based on their marketting strategy.
If all the songs performed by some artist were to be published under some
fixed artist name, the listeners might get tired of his/her songs soon
considering their release pace. I'll cite a extreme case to explain in a easy
way to understand. In Maharaja Night Hi-Nrg Revolution vol.24, 6
out of 13 songs sung by Elena Ferretti are included as follows;

Macho Gang - Rock Rock Party
Margaret - Turn On The Light
Olivia - Love Paradise
Valentina - Freedom
Victoria - Please Don't Go
Queen Of Times - One Of These Nights

This compilation album was released in 1997, but the same would go for
late 80s.

can it be (very mysterious) that some vocalists are not allowed to speak about all their names, all their projects et al.

And some vocalists are even dont remember what aliases they used.
Especially if they used a lot of aliases.

This is also difficult to understand, why vocalists that have so beautiful voices like Pasquini, must sing falcetto some times where they are not to recognize. And other vocalists with beautiful high voices like KINKY GO did not sing behind other aliases, they must not because Pasquini already singed with the voice of them

It's not a typical Italian thing though, it's everywhere in the dance scene. I use different aliases myself as well, just to make sure I don't commit overkill on one project. It's actually really clever!

Oh and I don't think artists aren't allowed to talk about their projects, only in cases where one alias has become really world famous (like Whigfield). But it's never smart to talk anyway cos it's your own money that's on the line.

This all is the reason why for me the project name is irrelevant.
I only want to know who vocalist is.
And this is not always easy.
It would be so good if every vocalist had the internet page like Clara Moroni "claradance.com", where all projects are listed.

I'm working on such a page.
If you haven't seen it yet: http://cheese.republika.pl/aliases.html

It needs a lot of work though, and I probably won't be doing a lot of updates before vacation.

Actually, I'm thinking of creating a huge list of Eurobeat songs sorted by labels and catalogue numbers and assigning vocalists to them.
Does anyone have up-to-date catalogue numbers of TIME/A-Beat C/Delta tracks?
Only SAIFAM and Live Music Studio are still updating their catalogues on-line...

Here you are.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/tts6af
But not completed, specially from TRD1500 onward.

cheeseman, this is great idea and great job.
of cause, not only names but also songs schould be listed, because for example behind the same name (ATRIUM) can be different vocalists.

And i stil hope that there are some more vocalists than we stil think

oresama-chan wrote:Here you are.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/tts6af
But not completed, specially from TRD1500 onward.

I already have these, but thanks anyways.
I'm looking for anything above TRD 1670 (except a few), ABEAT 2027 and DELTA 1016.
Does SCP have some kind of catalogue? I know they issued vinyls under the DOUBLE label, but not all their tracks were on these vinyls.

I also like to believe that one singer will use a certain alias to associate that name with a certain feel of a particular set of songs.

Let's take Clara for example: I also remember that her alias Leslie Parrish (back in the day) conveyed a dark and more hurt kind of eurobeat song like "Killing My Love" or "Remember Me".

Then there's her Cherry alias which, usually, has a more upbeat tone with songs like "My Loverboy" or "Sha La La La". Of course, there are more poignant Cherry songs like "Rain", "Kisses", and "Yesterday"

But I also think there are aliases from a singer that convey the same feeling like the Go Go-King and Queen-Groove Twins trio. Currently, I think of more upbeat songs from all three of the group aliases.

cheeseman wrote: I'm looking for anything above TRD 1670 (except a few), ABEAT 2027 and DELTA 1106.

But, I don't think there exist such catalogue numbers after they stopped
pressing vinyls by themselves.

oresama-chan wrote: But, I don't think there exist such catalogue numbers after they stopped
pressing vinyls by themselves.

You think so?

Then look here:
http://www.timerec.it/catalogue.php?label=TRD
You can clearly see tracks from the SEB 130 period with catalogue numbers TRD 19xx, plus a few random older tracks.
That's why I'm certain that all TIME tracks have catalogue numbers, even though they aren't released on vinyls anymore.

Yes, I found that one as well some time ago. Notice however that most of them are NOT listed in the TRD catalog but in the TIME catalog instead: for example http://www.timerec.it/catalogue.php?sta ... label=TIME shows the songs you are looking for:

TRD-1671-Mix HELENA EZ DO DANCE
TRD-1672-Mix MR. M JUNGLE LOVE
TRD-1673-Mix PATRICIA LOVE ME LOVE ME
TRD-1674-Mix LISA JOHNSON SATURDAY NIGHT
TRD-1675-Mix TIME FORCE DANCIN' FOREVER
TRD-1676-Mix SOPHIE SHOOBEE DOO BE...
TRD-1677-Mix LOU GRANT COMMUNICATION
TRD-1678-Mix STOP LIMIT LINE BODY TO BODY
TRD-1679-Mix ROSE DOCTOR OF MY H...

By the way, all occurrences of the number "12" are replaced by "-Mix" so TRD-1212 is shown as TRD-Mix-Mix-Mix...