Firefly ~ Love (Is Gonna Be On Your Side) 1981 Disco Purrfection Version
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- At the time this song was released, disco was officially radio dead, but the clubs kept playing new sounds to fill the dance floors. Italo disco stepped into the fray with songs like Change's "A Lover's Holiday" being put together in Italy and making it big around the world. The disco fire never burned out in Europe and proof of that would be 90's disco sensation Blackbox and their blazing hot LP "Dreamland" that produced "Right On Time" and "Everybody Everybody" in the early 90's.
But back in the spring of 1981, a new funkier sound from overseas was invading the dance floors. The first time I heard this song I thought that Gino Vanelli had finally succumbed to the dance music bug and looked all over for it...Gino had put out his 1981 LP "Nightwalker", I ran out and picked it up, but did not find this song on the LP. I had to wait a couple of more weeks before I was able to identify it as Firefly. Confused, I thought it was the same Firefly that recorded the 1975 song "Hey There Little Firefly". As it turns out the man behind "Hey There Little Firefly" was Kenny Nolan (I Like Dreamin') from the US.
This new Firefly was a band formed in 1979 Vicenza, Italy consisting of Manuela Ometto, Maurizio Sangineto and Rolando Zaniolo, who met on a Vicenza RadioStar program in 1976. These three young artists loved the sound of disco music and decided to form a group that did that kind of music, with lyrics about the values of friendship and brotherhood. They decided to work with the production trio of Maurizio Cavalieri, Alberto and Alessandro Cerioni Scandale, who specialized in the production of soul, funk and disco music. This production clearly mimics that Chic sound with its scratching guitar and supple bass line.
Their first LP, "Firefly" from 1980 contained the song "Love and Friendship" which became a hit in Italy and was picked up by Emergency Records, given a US remix, renamed for the most prominent phrase in the song and released as "Love (Is Gonna Be On Your Side)" in early 1981. It peaked at #3 on the disco/dance chart and stayed on the chart for 22 weeks, a pretty awesome feat. The following year they released their second LP, "My Desire" and scored another Italian hit with "Come Back". A third LP, "Firefly 3" did not produce any hits and the trio disbanded. Giorgio Stefani took over the production with one member of the old production team, Maurizio Cavalieri. This new version of Firefly issued one last LP, 1984's "Double Personality" which did not sell well and the band finally called it quits.
Here's the fresh new FIREFLY song "Fly like a firefly" ruclips.net/video/5UBLSDFB2Iw/видео.html
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The old days are back!! This song played for years on New York radio station 98.7 WXLO which later became 98.7 WRKS. Also played on 92.3 WKTU. Those were the days!! Those two stations were the sound of New York. Great stations that will always be remembered!!
Thomas Meriam you forgot 107.5 WBLS i heard it on there too
I believe I heard it on graffiti urban radio (vendée, france if you want to check that on radio.garden) or cosmo radio in germany. Do you happen to know any good radio station in the us ?
Spot on 👍. That’s what I’m talking about
@@EksNiHil0- In NYC they have The New KTU 103.5
Aquí en Venezuela quedó en nosotros Radio Satélite... Ubicada en el estado Carabobo. Y Radio Capital en Caracas 🎇 i'm greateful for them!
I was in high school when this came out. Listened to it on WBLS on the way to Far Rockaway to drop my niece and nephew to school.
Yes and. Coney island beach and the rides. All dancing
ONE OF THE GIANT KILLER TRACKS OF THE 80S. STILL GOING STRONG IN 2017 AND BEYOND...................
amarjeet bajwa whoooa
Criminally killer
Still rocking in 2021
great article that you attached! i found this vinyl in a flea market in Paris. Buying records as souvenirs can be challenging. Love of music...
I went crazy over this song when it came out!!!
Love Moe B. This reminds me of you! Miss you dearly! Ramon.
Why?
Yo escucho hoy en JULIO 2021 algo que conoci aquel hermoso Verano de 1981 en mi querida UACH Terminaba mi primer año de prepa. Hermosos recuerdos e algo me gustaría se volviera a poner de moda Y arriba la Disco!!!..
Inoubliable Été 1981 !!!
de la bombe ce titre a cette époque je rayé le sol des dance floor 🤣 et il y en a tellement d'autre ! toute une histoire les années 80'
Memory lane
Fantastico
I agree it does sound like CHIC, specifically Sister Sledge's "Thinking of You" first recorded in 1979 but not released until about 4 years later. That being said, I like this song. Great memories!
Beautifull song
Tes bon comme les plus grand c à dire le groupe chic
Man this is one Cool beat, and the message is so need today in 2021.
Mitici vicentini🎸❤
Once again. Thanks./
Thanks mate brill can't stop dancing soul man stoke on trent gazza
Nothing but the best of times
Viva l'Italia e gli italiani di un tempo. Avevano le palle, lavoravano sodo, e si facevano sentire in giro per il mondo senza internet! it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_(gruppo_musicale)
è stupenda pero' un po è anche merito degli Chic
@@Spumini75 Certamente!
Love love the track !!! First time hearing it yesterday! Woooo ! Stumbled on it on eBay ! Yes to vinyl baby 🎉🎉🎉🎉long live disco
indémodable!!! toujours de la balle!!! merci
Super sound Olso 2020
Eso era la música Disco de Verdad me recuerda a Radio Disco duro 🕺💃💯 DE SHOW
Firefly Love. Is going to. Be. On your. Side DJ. Disco càt. Mello. Groove
This is dat stank, disco, funk!!!
One love. The Frankie paradise network. NYC
the beat goes on ...still great stuff in 2018
Es perfecto
I’m back in the early 80s right now… Heading out to clubs at midnight!
Those were the best days for music and dancing
love your music
oh que oui de l artisanal et quel titre ça reste u n de mes preferés
What are they talkin' about? Impossible to understand...Who can submit and correct the LYRICS? -
Love! Love's gonna be on your side
Just got feeling of love
Love's gonna be on your side
Just got feeling of love
Wish you all live so glam and tight
We love you warn because you have to fight
Every day is just another struggle
Love grows on you, babe
Like a bubble inside
This is the reason we play this song
The same we love kill the more than one
Listen a new song on radio
Everybody's fight and new you know
When you'll be over and spend one more time
You find your hand trying to be in your pair
So understand got the silence place
Love and friendship are your strength
Love! Love's gonna be on your side
Just got feeling of love
Love's gonna be on your side
Just got feeling of love
No reason oh when you after fight
Will your friend like we swing to strife
A friend who talks you just for what you are
So come on, friends, believe in what you are
Oh, what's a blessing friendship and love
Because they take up to the sky
What's that pray and ever acts his mind
Cause like miss down(??)
When those sweet meats inside(???)
Love! Love's gonna be on your side
Just got feeling of love
Love's gonna be on your side
Just got feeling of love
The best.... 👌
wow what a version!! cheers 4 da upload bro!!!
PARADISE GARAGE 4 EVER 🔊💿🔊💿🔊
thanks for sharing and posting all this beautiful music love it if you can get a song by Paul Kelly ...Play me a love song',,,flip side of stealing love on the side,,thanks much
Made in Italy.
Wow
Super extended!!!! Very good but fade out????????? I don´t believe
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waw
Someone has a lyrics of this song?
As far as America went disco went underground and for the next eight years dance music would reveinvent itself and become acid house. But the disco never died in European countries and the uk scene has brit funk with bands like linx, beggars and co.,hi tension and imagination and later jazz funk level 42 , animal nightlife,shakatak,etc
Excelent analysis. I love post disco because it was very creative and far less mainstream with only passionate supporters hidden in clubs or listening to dissident radio stations ! Blame on the USA conservative fraction. 1983 was nonetheless a turnpoint and a renaissance for the genre. Disco which combined pop, jazz, classics, instrumentals and even country to R&B is the last attempt to avoid the fragmentation of music genres where each supporters remained now trapped.
I purchased the 12" vinyl record back in early 1981 which I no longer possess. I just dreamt of this song last night. I kid you not! I woke up this morning with this tune in my head. Shows you how much I miss those days. "Love is gonna be on your side" was sent to me in my dreams from above. Disco is and will always be my favorite word. Disco continues but under different genre of dance music. The beat still continues and its 2022. Keep Dancing!🕺.
I got my copy under cover in my mum's attic as I got so many records that would take a mini van to move them , it will happen one day when my mum no longer in her home , so thankfully I can remind myself just how good the 80's music were on here.
Actually this song wasn't Disco, it was considered a pop/r&b crossover it had the same path as Hall & Oates with their music "blue-eye soul". However that being said the song was built and developed around the baseline. It's heavy but it floats along plus the repetitious guitar riff in the background. So classic, 42 years later and it still grooves
OMG.... Me too !!😂 9\3\23 Krazy❤
One of my.most treasured vynils, the Michael Gray version is a banger if you check it out
What a particular feeling it brings me when listening to this song. The feeling in the memory is ... a beautiful emotion! And my feet can't stop moving !!
Same here!
Du bon de l'artisanal sans modération quelle époque de fou !!
This group was so awesome and underrated
Was about 17 years old .didn't had a care in the world 🌎.. was good to be young and free. Miss those great music and times 😢 that I had damm ....!
Thank you so much for the
History of this group. And
The group CHANGE, is definitely one of the most
Elegant of the early 80's.
Good memories hearing this. Sitting on the beach in Belmar NJ with the box on Kiss FM, WKTU, or WBLS. Haven't heard this in years!!! Thanks!!!!
I lived it too! Party my Azzz off back then as well. Asbury & Belmar had so many clubs to go to! And if you got tired of the area just ride off on the Parkway to the Checkmate in Lakewood & ride back to Club 12 by the beach in Asbury Park! Man those were the day's!!
Those were the best times for music and dance , and here it is again , brilliant guys 😎
This Xtrem bass came from italia. Fashion week is italia based isn't it so did the dance scene. Absolutely love the bass sound of funk disco post era
Change Firefly BBqband High Fashion Macho Peter Jacques Band etc....DISCO from Italy
This groovy tune also was a big hit here in Brazil.
Este balanço também fez um tremendo sucesso aqui no Brasil.
Un groupe de collections tres classe don j'ai les meilleures maxi 45t vinyles good you tube
An excellent italo disco i was playing in the most famous Disco in Athenes.keep on good ReMixing Mr.Dj discocat and i follow because of the fine work you done..🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Has that Chic's 'Good Times' vibe Too!!
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Still listening in 2018!
2019
@@eyecomeinpeace2707 03/2020 ;)
2020 October lets go!!
Hi there ms. Charlie brown
7/22/2021
This is one bad ass jam!!!!awesome is all I can say!!!!!!!!!!!11
40 anos buscando e só agora tornei a ouvir! Thanks!
O começo lembra um pouco o Chic.
This tune is the bomb! Great tune to roller skate. I recall Stars Roller Rink in Brooklyn! Amazing!
Same here in Clarkson, Ontario. Scooter's Roller Palace.
RIP Frankie! Thank you for putting this music in us! Warehouse 206 S Jefferson foreva!
You must know Lamont!😆 Ya House Heads!
Bring back the old days…all this crap sounds the same…back then we had several different dances,too!
Wow!! Como me recuerda esta rola ese verano de 1981 fue fantástico!! Vivíamos la época Disco en todo su esplendor sin saber que su fin estaba cerca ya que para un año después nacería el HIGH ENERGY y la música cambiaba muy rápido en ese entonces, tenia entonces 19 y hoy en 2022 ya tengo 60 pero es bueno recordar y volver a bailar esto y he aquí una probada para probárselos, el que no haya vivido este tiempo, pues no supo de lo que se perdió , comienzos de los ochentas y todo era fantástico, solo teníamos que estudiar y cotorrear allá en mi querida alma mater (UACH), Saludos a todos los aquí presentes desde MEXICO..
Querido yo estoy con 58 anios y tambien aproveche un poco esta hermosa época,que felizes éramos!!! Hasta el dia de hoy escucho estos temazos y Los llevo connigo en El corazon,
@@eduardorapoport733 Gracias por tu comentario Eduardo, somos contemporáneos por lo que veo y tu si sabes cómo vivimos esa época, Ahora yo por mi parte estoy dando a conocer entre las nuevas generaciones este gran legado y que vuelvan a bailar en pareja, sobre todo. saludos desde el SURESYE DE LA REPUBLICA MEXICANA donde la chamba me trajo hace 25 años atrás..
@@FernandoRodriguez-wu8li contemporâneos y El mesmo sentimento musical, tengo 2 hijos,uno és baterista y consegui pasarles El espiritu y ritmos de está época maravilhosa,saludos de un argentino viviendo en Brasil
@@eduardorapoport733 Vaya que gran sorpresa Eduardo, yo soy mexicano pero los dos somos Latinoamericanos.
Gracias por tus comentarios y gran gusto en conocerte, aunque haya sido a través de este medio. Estaremos en contacto. SALUDOS HASTA BRASIL. Tomate una CAIPIRINHA a mi salud o una cervecita o un vinillo. como decimos acá. Hasta pronto un gusto enorme...
Un morceau d'une énergie solaire, et un très efficient travail de remixage.
ItaloDisco - a textbook of what really matters - in music AND fashion!
Truth. I am a fashion designer. I was born 1972. My brothers threw house party discos on our Native American reservation, where discos did not exist. I was dancing disco at age 4.👍🏽
I think you do confusion between Gino Vanelli & Gino Soccio a booth italo Canadian singer & producer ! Same vibe like Karen Silver “ Ain’t nobody else”😎
~ "LOVE & FRIENDSHIP!" Still fresh in 2018! Still play this, as well as hundreds of other 60s & 70s & 80s kinda underground jams, like "People Gotta Move" by Gino Vannelli (1974). Cheers, DAVEDJ ~
2020! Presente
Thank you DJDiscoCat this FireFly brings me back to the Disco92 days with Paco in NY. I totally forgot about this song but the second I saw firefly I knew it was something then I clicked on it and was like Awwwee shit!!!!!!!!!!!’
Grandi! Vicentini D.O.C.
El pasado!!! Días felices...y no quiero regresar al presente!!
Baja boricua me to rolling skating day in twin city in jerzy
hace 40 años y parece que fue ayer Verano de 1981.....
I remember working at the factory in basildon when this tune come out
Hi!! I'm from Brasil, I love this song!!! Does you have the lyrics please? thanks
I want too!
Dra. Beatriz Rolim sim podia eu manda pra vc mais gosto muito este musica como vc e tdo mundo! Muito legal este grupo FireFly e musica de os 80s! 😃 🎶
What they are talkin' about impossible to understand:
Love! Love's gonna be on your side
Just got feeling of love
Love's gonna be on your side
Just got feeling of love
Wish you all live so glam and tight
We love you warn because you have to fight
Every day is just another struggle
Love grows on you, babe
Like a bubble inside
This is the reason we play this song
The same we love kill the more than one
Listen a new song on radio
Everybody's fight and new you know
When you'll be over and spend one more time
You find your hand trying to be in your pair
So understand got the silence place
Love and friendship are your strength
Love! Love's gonna be on your side
Just got feeling of love
Love's gonna be on your side
Just got feeling of love
No reason oh when you after fight
Will your friend like we swing to strife
A friend who talks you just for what you are
So come on, friends, believe in what you are
Oh, what's a blessing friendship and love
Because they take up to the sky
What's that pray and ever acts his mind
Cause like miss down(??)
When those sweet meats inside(???)
Love! Love's gonna be on your side
Just got feeling of love
Love's gonna be on your side
Just got feeling of love
Love is gonna to be on your side
Just the feeling of love
Wish you only ...
(??)We love you all because we have to fight(????)
Everyday is just another struggle
Life goes on baby like a bubble in side
This is the reason we play this song
To say we love you more and more
Recent news on the radio
Everybody is flying and you and me will know
(?) You will be older and spend all your time
You find the hand trying to bring you... (?)
So understand that beside these things, love and friendship are your strenght
Love is gonna to be on your side
Just the feeling of love
.....
With a friend life will seem just right
A friend to talk to you just for what you are
So come on friends beleve in what you are
Love is blessing friend ship and love
.....
@@BeatrizRolim Amazing plus Brilliant!!👍🤝😎
DJDiscoCat, I love the background info you provide with your Purrfection mixes.
Just love this song! So timeless & alergre! 🎶💕
5 años buscandola y hoy la encontre
ritmazzo
These guys in pictures albums are all set in a stand still posture: some behind one, two and three and another behind another. As that's the way they are going to dance in this stand still posture picture album? One behind another? And forever and ever and ever and ever to this music that is playing right nowwwwwwww???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And that is, PS: one behind anotherrrrrrrrrr???????!!!!!!!!!!!!
And again, PS: one behind another and forever and ever and ever and ever they are dancing right behind another and another to this song that is playing not only as of right now, but forever and ever and ever and ever and ever.
The best of times!!!!!!!👌👌👌👍👍👍
toujours aussi bon , le temps ou radio nrj ne passait pas de la grosse daube
Thanks for the background information, DJ Disco Cat.
Forgot about this!
2020
SOUNDS Like A NILE RODGERS and BERNARD EDWARDS CHIC JAM
Definitely - and the guitar work is just like Shalamar's "There it is" ...
ELLE DECHIRE A TOUS SUR LES DIAGRAMMES DE SON ET LA VOIX DU CHANTEUR EST TRES BIEN TRAVAILLEE AVEC UN TEXTE QUI SONNE COMME UN POEME A RIMES: UNE REUSSITE POUR UN GOUPE PASSE INAPERCU EN FRANCE DURANT LA BELLE EPOQUE
C'est, peut-être passé inaperçu pour toi mais pas pour tout le monde...
Good times ....eyars 80 ...
Es una de mis mejores canciones de los '80, y en el 2021 la sigo escuchanndo! Qué linda época!
Big tune back in the day killer bass line
This sounds just as good today as it did back in the day!
I remember this song growing up, and I loved it then and enjoy beautiful memories.
Énorme souvenir avec mon frérot MIMI✌🤝👣
I play this tune so many time still love it
The greatest era of dance music we will ever see!!!!!!!
Bobby Linning ......Yep ! 👍👍💃🕺💃🕺💯
True.
I guess Im pretty randomly asking but do anyone know a good website to watch new tv shows online ?
Quelle bonne année
I love disco song and loved to dance to it by Firefly.
Wow, where was I when this song was out! Just out of high school and in a musically dead part of the US.
I love it disco dance for life lol
Yaaasssss😊😊
Club music not house or disco
italofunk
It's that 1981 beat for sure 🕺 🕺 🕺 🕺
Show 🤗 éramos felizes e não sabiamos 😀
💕 love is going to be on your side firefly Dj disço cat musical ..