some seven or eight years ago i was watching some old homemovies with my family and some of our relatives and the video at hand was two part. first was when my two oldest sisters had a party with their youthgroup and there was some music, dancing and other types of festevities. the second part was our new years celebration from 87/88 and while this was actually why the video was being seen the first half is at interest here.
i heard a few songs on it that i loved and became obscessed with and tried to ask my sisters if they knew but they'd forgotten. for whatever reason i forgot to google the lyrics but a few years after two of the songs just came up in my head after i heard something that sounded like one of them. i recorded the audio of the two and went online and found that one of the songs to be modern talking's "diamonds never made a lady" but the other was harder.
first of the audioquality wasn't crystal so i couldn't fully hear her what she was singing but i kept looking with little to no result. even nowadays the lyrics are not available on line so i couldn't find it but i knew the year of the event was 1987 and modern talking track was 1985 so i tried a different strategy. i thought the song was called "one word" as that was the punch of the chorus and one of the key lyriclines in the first verse and looked to see if there was any songs called that between those years.
the result was nothing in relevance and decided to upload the clip to and sent it out to some friends that liked 80's music and on some forums dedicated to italo and eighties music and still nothing. enter dennis alexis hallström aka bimbo boy as i through the discogs forum noticed his website & blog and the fact that he was listening to this kind of music on last.fm. sent him the audioclip and what i knew of it and i finally recieved an identification and information on the song.
swedish popstar, actress & musicalartist pernilla wahlgren's "i need your love" from 1987, the lead single from her third album "pure dynamite". the first album of hers that was completely in english with the intent for it to be the launch of an international career, something that didn't happen in the end. she's from a showbusiness family and is the daughter of two actors (hans wahlgren & christina schollin) and is a name and face that's been all over swedish media, oh, the last 25 years.
the song was written & produced by her partner at the time emilio ingrosso and for anyone that inquires, that is sebastian ingrosso's uncle. emilio and his brother vito (sebastian's father) started out as background dancers for wahlgren. "i need your love" doesn't have much of a value outside of a kitschy one but i love it, mostly because how hard it tries to this big stock aitken waterman track.
it sounds more like something that could have come out the german pop scene but this is also why i love it. you hear that the persons who made this song doesn't have english as their first language but they try but it doesn't matter as the catchy melodies make you ignore some of the inane sentances and grammitical placements and all that jazz.
buy here (itunes)
there was also a remix done by swemix's rené hedemyr for the dj's and the european market, hedemyr redoes ingrosso's production and sorts out a better groove for the dancefloor. a four on the floor is brought on and the bassline is heavier, he also replaces the synthsolo in the middle eight for a wild pianosolo. production wise this remix is much better but i prefer the kitschy original over it.
listen here (youtube)
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