Sandra (Arabesque) - Midnight Dancer HD
- 12 years ago
Arabesque started as an all-girl trio at the height of the european disco era in 1977 in Frankfurt, Germany.
After the first album, the band lineup was changed by keeping only the original member Michaela Rose and replacing the two other girls with new members Jasmin Vetter and Sandra Lauer. After they split up in 1984, Jasmin and Michaela continued on as the duo "Rouge", while Sandra Lauer started her own career as a solo artist in collaboration with Michael Cretu as Sandra and later Enigma.
Arabesque became extremely popular in Japan, and also had a great deal of success in the USSR. In 1980, the single "Take Me Don't Break Me" became a hit, which only scraped the German Top 40. Their next single, "Marigot Bay", would become their only Top Ten hit a few weeks later. Their last singles "Ecstasy" and "Time to Say Goodbye", became hits only after their split, in various European countries, as they sounded very close to the Italo-disco sound, a very popular music genre on the European dance scene at that time. Those songs spread and gained success through LP compilations of dance/pop music, and bootleg tapes, so, the band could never take advantage of this success, as neither those songs could properly appear on any music charts as "singles" anyway. (That was a common problem for many '80s European dance artists.) These last Arabesque singles also introduced the "Italo-disco" sound to Japan, under the term "eurobeat", previously used in the UK for the Stock Aitken Waterman productions. That soon lead to Japan's Super Euro
Albums
1978 Friday Night
1979 City Cats
1980 Marigot Bay
1980 Midnight Dancer
1981 In for a Penny
1981 Caballero
1982 Why No Reply
1983 Dance Dance Dance
1984 Time to Say Good Bye
1994 Twin Best
Singles
1977 "Hello Mr. Monkey"
1978 "Friday Night"
1979 "Fly High Little Butterfly"
1979 "Rock Me After Midnight"
1979 "City Cats"
1979 "Peppermint Jack"
1980 "High Life"
1980 "Parties in a Penthouse"
1980 "Make Love Whenever You Can"
After the first album, the band lineup was changed by keeping only the original member Michaela Rose and replacing the two other girls with new members Jasmin Vetter and Sandra Lauer. After they split up in 1984, Jasmin and Michaela continued on as the duo "Rouge", while Sandra Lauer started her own career as a solo artist in collaboration with Michael Cretu as Sandra and later Enigma.
Arabesque became extremely popular in Japan, and also had a great deal of success in the USSR. In 1980, the single "Take Me Don't Break Me" became a hit, which only scraped the German Top 40. Their next single, "Marigot Bay", would become their only Top Ten hit a few weeks later. Their last singles "Ecstasy" and "Time to Say Goodbye", became hits only after their split, in various European countries, as they sounded very close to the Italo-disco sound, a very popular music genre on the European dance scene at that time. Those songs spread and gained success through LP compilations of dance/pop music, and bootleg tapes, so, the band could never take advantage of this success, as neither those songs could properly appear on any music charts as "singles" anyway. (That was a common problem for many '80s European dance artists.) These last Arabesque singles also introduced the "Italo-disco" sound to Japan, under the term "eurobeat", previously used in the UK for the Stock Aitken Waterman productions. That soon lead to Japan's Super Euro
Albums
1978 Friday Night
1979 City Cats
1980 Marigot Bay
1980 Midnight Dancer
1981 In for a Penny
1981 Caballero
1982 Why No Reply
1983 Dance Dance Dance
1984 Time to Say Good Bye
1994 Twin Best
Singles
1977 "Hello Mr. Monkey"
1978 "Friday Night"
1979 "Fly High Little Butterfly"
1979 "Rock Me After Midnight"
1979 "City Cats"
1979 "Peppermint Jack"
1980 "High Life"
1980 "Parties in a Penthouse"
1980 "Make Love Whenever You Can"