AccuRadio Song Of The Day-Silver Convention

Artist:Silver Convention
Song:Get Up And Boogie
Album:Greatest Hits





Silver Convention had two big hits at the height of the mid-70s disco boom; Fly, Robin, Fly followed by Get Up And Boogie. They were gone by the end of the 70s. Silver Convention was two German producers who hired three girls to sing. Sylvester Levay was born in Yugoslavia and he moved to Germany in 1972. That's when he met Michael Kunze and they decided to work together. Levay's nickname was Silver so they recorded as Silver Convention. Kunze used the pseudonym Stephan Prager. After the 1975 single Save Me was a hit in England, Silver Convention signed a US record deal with Midland International who were having success with John Travolta at the time. Fly, Robin, Fly topped the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks. That record won a Grammy. Get Up And Boogie reached #2. Both songs are instrumental with a repeated chorus. There are no verses or lead singer. That's because Silver Convention used studio singers. It was never supposed to be a real group. When Save Me became a hit, Levay and Kunze discovered that they would have to turn them into a group. So they hired Penny McLean, Ramona Wulf and Linda G. Thompson to be Silver Convention. And that's who you see on this video. This comp from the Canadian label Unidisc has both hits and other Silver Convention songs. Levay and Kunze split up after the 1977 album Summernights. Midland brought in producer John Davis to help Kunze with the 1978 album Love in a Sleeper. After that was unsuccessful, Silver Convention ended. Levay went on to work in films with Giorgio Moroder. After working as a producer, Kunze got into translating musicals like Evita into German. Levay and Kunze  reunited in the 90s to write and produce stage musicals for German theater. They continue to do that today. Here's Silver Convention performing Get Up And Boogie on The Mike Douglas Show 1976.