Elly Brown - Don't Hang Up mp3 album

Leave it to italodisco to really confuse how you hear music. Of course, this track is pretty late italo, which means it could also lie in multiple synth/dance subgenres. Produced by the leader of US group Grace Pool, and sung by another Grace Pool member, this record mixes Italian-style mid-80s italo melodic synths with freestyle-fashioned vocals, hard-programmed beats, synth stabs, and even a bit of a guitar riff is thrown into the main melody. Brown can do the "little-girl" freestyle-ish high vocals but is talented enough to really belt the tune out. It's over-the-top enough to call italo, but sounds like it could have been a synth-freestyle hit all over US radio in the middle 80s. Is it amazing? After 15 listens, I still don't know. But it sure is fascinating, and that vocal hook is super effective as well. A keeper.

It made it to #27 in US Dance Club Play, so it was all over the US clubs at least. :)