Bobby Orlando, say some things about him.

Someone give a step-by-step guide to making a Bobby O track please.

and while we're on a psb tip
(and not to hijack the thread)
the only track i liked off their
'release' record was 'the samurai in autumn'.
such a disappointment after 'nightlife'
which i thought was the dog's.

Simon, what Felix track is the 'Passion' sample on? I can't believe he's STILL wringing usage out of it, as good as it is. And what's this Patrick Cowley chap all about?

How come I didn't know anything about Bobby O until this year??

I mean, this stuff is amazing.

New York Dolls-Love on Video

biggest hits:

Flirts-Passion
Divine-Native Love(Step by Step)

Don't sleep on later Memo records hi-nrg stuff:

Hotline-Guilty
Charlene Davis-Aggression

Remember Bobby O could rock the New Wave Dance:

The Flirts-Don't Put Another Dime in the Jukebox
Barbi and the Kens-Just a Gigilo

Most early Flirts stuff is more in the style of Calling All Boys but isn't that great, the big hit was Passion, especially the really long italo mix. Later they went almost in a freestyle direction. And by "they" I mean Bobby O, of course.

1. T-Shirts & Tight Blue Jeans - Divine.
2. These Memories - Oh Romeo.
3. Passion - The Flirts.
4. Desire - Roni Griffith.
5. I'm So Hot For You - Bobby "O".
6. Shoot Your Shot - Divine.
7. Bring On The Men - Wow.
8. Take A Chance On Me - Waterfront Home.
9. Danger - The Flirts.
10. She Has A Way - Bobby "O".
11. Shake It Up - Divine.
12. Givin' Up - Bobby "O".
13. Native Love - Divine.
14. (The Best Part Of) Breakin' Up - Roni Griffith.
15. Who's Your Boyfriend? - Eric.
16. I Want A Man - Bonnie Forman.
17. Love Reaction - Divine.
18. I Cry For You - Bobby "O".
19. West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys. (original contains line: "Who do you think you are, Joe Stalin?")
20. Get Up Offa That Thing - Screamin' Tony Baxter.

Legend has it that he used to strut his muscular bod round New York in a tight T-shirt that bore the slogan "All this and money too!"

That's a really good list of songs. I find it difficult to find the original version of West End Girls though? Everyone on slsk has the version on the best of, pretty much.

Nice list Mike, but you should really substitute some of the later stuff I mention, the Hotline and Charlene Davis tracks are great.

and what about Eat Em Up Yum Yum or whatever it's called!

Flirts - All You Ever Think About Is Sex
Flirts - Calling All Boys
Flirts - Come To Me
Flirts - Dancing Madly Backwards
Flirts - Danger
Flirts - Desire
Flirts - Helpless
Flirts - Passion
Flirts - Take A Chance On Me
Flirts - Temptation
Flirts - Voulez Vous
Flirts - You & Me

Got all these and tons more O on cd-r, msg me on ssk and maybe I'll stick them online for you. username: Ian SPACK

The Flirts - Helpless
Bobby O - She Has a Way
Divine - Shoot Your Shot
Malibu - Lust or Love
Waterfront Home - Take a Chance on Me
Girly - Saving Myself
Roni Griffith - The Best Part of Breakin' Up
Bobby O - How To Pick Up Girls
The Flirts - Calling All Boys
Oh Romeo - Once is Not Enough
Eric - Who's Your Boyfriend
Tony Casso - Love Attack
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

dude was so obviously in the closet

the back of the record has a list of other best ofs: Best of Personal Records, Best of Record Shack Records, Besrt of Enjoy! Records, Best of Harem Records. any of these labels worth checking out?

i can tape it for you? :-/

best of enjoy records is dope old school hip/hop. inconsistent at best, but includes "Superappin" by GF & the F5, plus "New Rap Language" and "Body Rock" by the Treacherous Thre

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0510,eddy,61828,22.html

http://images.villagevoice.com/issues/0510/dozen.jpg

He does a couple ballads that you can not dance to! (But mostly he doesn't.)

He did produce some singles by the New York Models - maybe some confusion there?

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/stycast/

It's sounds like something he would have written for the Pet Shop Boys.

Probably the most blatant example of what Dan describes is New York Models 'Fashion' which is about 99.5% the same song except with a f instead of p. Still great though. The stuff he did with Waterfront Home is probably most different from the 'Passion' sound, but still very very good.

Man, got The Flirts album for $2 and had no idea who this guy was. Awesome stuff. What else should I search from him?

"These Lies", "German Girl" and everything else mentioned above.

Any power pop fans out there, should check out Bobby O's band, The Now. Their 1979 album kills it. Even better than I imagined it would be.

What I love about Bobby O is that I keep finding new stuff by him. Of course, some of it is horrible ... but the good stuff can be amazing.

Right now, I'm on the lookout for "Street Music" by The Bang Gang.

heh, i uploaded that song to my site a few days ago.
http://www.robotsinheat.com/trax/StreetMusic.mp3

That Pet Shop Boys version of "Try It (I'm In Love With A Married Man)" is so good.

Sweet, Jaxon. I will DL that ... but I NEED the wax, breaux (need to visit your site more often too ... good stuff!).

that's just the instrumental though. good hunting. i found it for a buck.

another bobby o produced single i picked up recently was Tod Foster's Dancin.
http://www.discogs.com/release/210553

here's the Tod Foster track. has a bit of a bee gee's vibe when the falsetto comes in, but a really great track. really spaced out organ and nice rolling, synth bassline.
http://www.robotsinheat.com/trax/Dancin.mp3

Yeah, I like that Tod Foster.

2 more Bobby O favorites that haven't been mentioned yet ...

Roni Griffith -- Spys
Roni Griffith -- Voodoo Man

the first one is especially awesome. It's got that killer chug that a lot of Bobby's greatest tracks have (like "I'm So Hot For You," "Desire," "Passion" etc.). And funny, paranoid lyrics too.

And it looks like you cam DL "Spys" here if you want:

http://suckmydisco.blogspot.com/

I found a copy of "Street Music" a few weeks ago. Not as good as stuff from a couple years later.

Tod Foster's Dancin' is pretty awesome, and I've seen it in the dollar bin a few times. I also like how it's Orlando style in a more embryonic/innocent form. There's a later version of Dancin' by Joe Michael that's more standard rate hi-nrg chugging and not as good.

Also fun: when you blatantly hear which huge track Bobby was obviously trying to rip off ("Just A Gigolo" = "Private Idaho", "Love Reaction" = "Blue Monday", and numerous takes on his own "Passion")

One-Two-Three's "Runaway" = "Don't You Want Me"

...KILLER instrumental btw

His latest album was released last month: listen to samples here http://www.emusic.com/album/Bobby-O-Bright-Nothing-World-MP3-Download/11984142.html

wow that tod foster song IS awesome. really liked 'i want to funk you' off the last bobby o album but not much else, didn't even know about this new one but will definitely check out

Social Contract Theory, his new album, came out about two weeks ago. It sounds much as you'd expect. Seems to go on forever but it's very good in smaller doses.

Never heard the Bowie cover of "Rebel Rebel" that he produced, would actually like an extended/more instrumental version of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKvjs5T3MXs

There's a Pinball Wizard cover on the same record, but it's not very notable.

Two good Bobby O dubs while I'm here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj9MhcWh-BY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJmis9_errE

x-post I have the 12" single of the Lyn Todd "Rebel Rebel" but it's only 3 minutes long.

Thanks for posting that. I never knew what Lyn Todd looked like, and that androgynous voice led me to conflicting thoughts.

Found myself down a Bobby O hole this week, after hearing both the PSB and Oh Romeo versions of "Try It (I'm in love with a Married Man)." On heavy rotation now is The Flirts' "Voulez Vous (Atlantis Codex Ultimo Remix)", which cuts down on the vocals and amps up the instrumental parts very nicely. (The fan-made video is a bit NSFW btw). Most of the instrumentation from Fancy's "Slice me nice" was lifted from "Passion" or "Desire", but I wonder if Orlando shamelessly stole back by putting the chorus riff from "Slice me Nice" in BOTH "Helpless" and "Voulez Vous." I feel he made better use of it in the end, anyhow.

I never heard "My boyfriend is a communist" by Miss Kimberly before (b-side to "DJ Girl"), but the lyrics are wonderfully daft:

"What ever happened to my Vietnam Vet?
He's become so Soviet
He's quoting Marx and Lenin too
He's so RED and now I'm so BLUE"

I feel like the trio of One Two Three singles are a bit underrated too. "Another Knife in my back" is SO mean-spirited.

One other thing: did not know there was a full length LP for Waterfront Home. It's not bad at all. "Finger On The Trigger" and "Teenage Girl In Love" are pretty nice, and it's got the original version of "Dancin' In Heaven," later done by Tony Caso as a solo artist. "Dancing In Heaven" is great musically, but aaaah! Is it really a father's lament over the premature death of his children, while simultaneously implying that he was responsible for their deaths? What the hell, man. Someone speculated on YT that the lyrics of later Tony Caso singles like "Desperate and Dangerous" act as prequels and/or sequels to the same story, which might be reading too much into things, but it wouldn't surprise me if that was the case.

the cowbell on “calling all boys” is so damn hot

or timbales or whatever

on a bit of a hi-NRG kick lately and have had this one on repeat - that just-shy-of-wailing delivery in the chorus is perfect. hard to track down an affordable vinyl copy unfortunately.

malibu - lust or love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vTFqNfnqPY

always enjoy looking at the header on his discogs page:

Aliases:
C. Shore, Cha Cha Garcia, Dynasty (5), Ian Darby, John "Gumball" Gonzales, Johnny Bankcheck, Klaus Voegel, Mein, Nancy Dean, Obscure Mastermix = 1, Rossi (12), The Babby
In Groups:
1 Plus 1, Barbie & The Kens, Beachfront, Bobby "O" & His Banana Republic, Bubba & The Jack Attack, Citrus (9), Claus V., Condo, Darlene Down, Dressed To Kill, Fascination (3), Focus 1, Free Enterprise, Gangsters Of House (2), Gina Desire, Girls Have Fun, Girly, Gomez Presley, Gringo Lopez, Hippies With Haircuts, Hotline (2), House Of 'O', Joy Toy, Kinski Music, Lifestyle, Lilly & the Pink, Lola (31), M.C. Fritz & The P-Rockers, Malibu (2), Mandarine, New Breed, Oh Romeo, One & Two Teenies, One-Two-Three, Patty Phillipe, Sandra Ford, Something Anything, Spooge Boy, Teen-Rock, The Beat Box Boys, The Boyd Brothers, The College Boys, The Fem-Spies, The New York Models, The Now (5), Vision 1, Wow, Zwei Maenner

John "Gumball" Gonzales

lol is this one supposed to be a jellybean parody?

Spooge Boy

O_O

lol just saw the above post