I can't believe that anybody would ever have the guts to post a Gilla vid here - these Norsemen are fearless indeed. And the Minnesotan adds fuel to the fire by claiming it's a "nice cover", what have we come to?
I would like to stress that she's Austrian, not German, i.e. from a country that never had anything to do with Germany except fleetingly and only by mistake because our tanks took a wrong turn at a junction. You can hear her Austrian accent even when she sings English.
Milli Vanilli, does that ring a bell with you, Dave? That was one of Frank Farian's projects too. And Boney M is mainly known for one bass line:
Plus that the 'dancer', Bobby Farrell, didn't sing, that was Frank Farian - I hope you recognize a pattern here.
Now that Doomie has pillaged and desecrated this forums of forums, we might as well (dubiously) enjoy it while we can, here's more of Gisela Wuchinger aka Gilla, who walked the thin line between horrible Disco and horrible Schlager ...
She initially sang German Austrrrian. Generally pseudo-sultry lyrics to previous Anglo-American hits. We called it Pornoschlager back then. Frank Farian's acts often had the ill repute of allegedly featuring red light district folk and in the 70ies and early 80ies the Frankfurt red light district (Farian's studios were close to Frankfurt) was populated by Austrian pimps from Vienna who also dabbled in music.
Yup, before the 4001 she could be seen with an EB3L Slothead.
This thread wouldn't be complete without mentioning Far(ian) Corporation, another unspeakable crime, even Led Zep didn't deserve this:
Yup, that's at first Robin McAuley (Grand Prix and MSG) and then Bobby Kimball (Toto) singing, Kimball lived in Frankfurt for a few years.
But we haven't reached the nadir yet, even the great Cockney Rebel were not spared. On this clumsy cover of their magnificent Sebastian, you can actually see and hear Frank Farian as the lead vocalist, front man guitarist. Adding insult to injury, he somehow even got a visibly embarrassed/bemused Steve Harley (who sang and composed the original) on the left (i.e. not the guy with the DX7 on the right) to play keyboards for him and sing a line or two.
Steve must have needed the money badly (his career was in the doldrums in the mid-80ies), but judging from his hairline today
he at least invested it into something lasting and durable.