So Hot for Bobby O
Spanish label Blanco Y Negro recently released “I Love Bobby “O”", a compilation 80s dance and hi-nrg pioneer Bobby Orlando’s greatest hits. Michael F. Gill at Stylus Magazine give us an excellent take on the release.
[Stylus Magazine review of I Love Bobby “O”]
Aside from my adoration of many of his productions, I am endlessly fascinated with the lower points in Orlando’s career, including shameless use of an ever-changing line of studio musicians and lip-syncing front women (years before Milli, Vanilli or Ashlee), his highly ironic homophobia, and his regrettable recycling of hit melodies and lyrics. One of the worst examples of said recycling is his reincarnation of the lusty hi-enegry hit “I’m So Hot for You” as a whiny midtempo ballads ala “I am Hot for You (and You’re So Cold)” by the New York Models.
For more insight into Bobby O’s somewhat checkered past, Global Darkness, home of dutch electro labels Bunker and Cremé Organization, offers a 1987 feature on Orlando published in British mag The Face.