the song take on me came out in 1984.
the song take on me came out in 1984.
when did the song take on me come out?
1984
while most of summer 1984 was spent preparing new material, including a major new song take a look, the band broke cover in july to play their first major london headline at the dominion theatre. it was a great success with some 1,500 people attending. in august the band travelled to liverpool to record the "art and illusion" album with gil norton (of "echo & the bunnymen" fame) producing. soon after its release in october it reached no. 83 in the national chart. the tour saw the band playing much larger venues than before and included the dominion theatre again and what turned out to be their only gig outside the uk, in marburg, germany.
twelfth night (band)
"ya mustafa" is one of the most remembered of moreno's songs. it was very famous in the 1950s and early 1960s. the original version of this catchy song (having a greek style music) and the identity of its composer are disputed. it appeared in one of the films of the egyptian actor ismail yassin in the 1950s and in another egyptian film of sabah from the same era. dario moreno performed it in the late 1950s. in europe, the song became popular with the help of bob azzam (a lebanese singer who was born in egypt in 1925 and died in monte carlo 2004), who released it in 1960 in france with lyrics consisting of at least 3 languages: "chérie je t'aime, chéri je t'adore – come la salsa del pomodoro" (darling, i love you, darling, i adore you – like tomato sauce). bruno gigliotti, (orlando) the brother of famous singer dalida, also covered the song. this song, with its greek style music and polyglotic lyrics, can be considered a historical documentation of the cosmopolitan era in the egyptian city of alexandria. during that era, a large cosmopolitan polyglotic community, mainly greeks, jews and italians, lived in the egyptian city. a sizable portion lived in the attareen district, where the events of the song take place.
darío moreno