Disco Dessert 5/12/19 - "Get Up And Boogie" from Silver Convention...

"Get Up And Boogie" was a club and radio hit for the German disco trio Silver Convention. Assembled by producers Sylvester Levay and Michael Kunze, the act used a series of female singers to complete the group: Germans Linda Thompson, Austrian Penny McLean, and Jackie Carter from Mauritius. Appearing on their second album Get Up And Boogie, the song climbed to #5 on the National Disco Action chart in Billboard magazine. It also spent three weeks at #2 on Billboard's Hot 100 pop chart in America, and peaked at #5 on the R&B list...

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And as a bonus, here's the extended version played in the nightclubs....

Finally, in honor of the Eurovision Song Contest which is being held last week, here's Silver Convention competing in the event in 1977 with "Telegram". They ended up in eighth place...