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| - The vocalists on Fun Fun records were Ivana Spagna, Antonella Pepe and Angela Parisi. The image was fronted by models and other vocalists. After the first album, Spagna left the project and started her solo career, leaving Pepe and Parisi as the vocalists on subsequent recordings.For the first single, Happy Station, the on-stage vocalists were Francesca Merola & Natalia Rolla. Rolla was fired and replaced with Roberta Selvelli for the first album and it's singles. Selvelli was then replaced by Elena Trastulli till the end of the project.For the unrelated German project that released La Bamba, see Fun Fun (2).
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| - Fun Fun were a popular Italian Italo disco/synthpop musical group during the 1980s. Their hits included %22Colour My Love%22 and %22Baila Bolero%22.Producers Dario Raimondi and Alvaro Ugolini teamed up with studio vocalists Antonella Pepe, Angela Parisi and Ivana Spagna to create a bouncy, high-energy, dancefloor-friendly sound. Their first release, 1983's %22Happy Station%22, found success in Italy and other parts of Europe, thanks to several extended versions, including the notorious %22Scratch%22 version. It also reached number 1 in South Africa.Upon receiving invitations for live performances, Raimondi and Ugolini decided to use models for Fun Fun's public image rather than the vocalists themselves, a common tactic used in the European dance music scene by artists like Baltimora and The Real McCoy. %22Have Fun!%22, the band's first full album from 1984, featured Francesca Merola and Roberta Servelli as the on-stage faces for the group. %22Have Fun!%22 featured other popular dance singles, including %22Give Me Your Love,%22 %22Living In Japan%22 and the band's oft-covered signature hit %22Colour My Love%22, which became popular in American nightclubs because of its insistent synth bassline and easily mixable percussion intro.After %22Have Fun!%22, Spagna left Fun Fun and started a solo career, returning for occasional lyrical contributions. Fun Fun continued on with Merola and Elena Trastulli (who replaced Servelli) as models and a new musician/producer Larry Pignagnoli, releasing a second album, 1987's %22Double Fun%22. %22Double Fun%22 had several singles, including %22Could This Be Love%22 and a cover of Spencer Davis Group's %22Gimme Some Lovin'.%22 However, the biggest hit from %22Double Fun%22 was %22Baila Bolero%22, a Spanish-flavored dance ballad. A megamix featuring most of the group's major hits, the %22Mega Hit Mix%22, was released on a 12%22 single soon afterward.As the Italo disco and High-Energy music scene decreased in popularity toward the end of the 1980s, Fun Fun tried a new direction in 1989 with the House style single %22Give Me Love%22, which had only minimal success. Several years later, the band released its last original song, %22I'm Needin' You%22, in a 90's Eurodance style, to equally minimal success. Since then, the only Fun Fun releases have been best-of compilations or DJ remixes/reconstructions of their previous hits.
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