''Ooh, La, La'' is the debut and only studio

album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, dig ...

by American singer,

Suzi Lane Suzi Lane is an American female singer and model noted for her 1979 hit disco song "Harmony" / " Ooh, La La". Lane was born Suzilienne McDonald. She adopted the name Suzi Lane prior to the release of her debut album '' Ooh, La, La''. The album ...

, released in 1979 through

Elektra Records Elektra Records (or Elektra Entertainment) is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt. It played an important role in the development of contemporary folk and rock music between the ...

. The album was produced by

Giorgio Moroder Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (, ; born 26 April 1940) is an Italian composer and music producer. Dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Father of Disco", Moroder is credited with pioneering Euro disco and electronic dance music. His work ...

who was also producing

Donna Summer Donna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948May 17, 2012), known professionally as Donna Summer, was an American singer and songwriter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s and became known as the "Queen of Disco", while her music ...

at that time. Lane said she met Summer at the recording studio and that she was influenced by the "high-energy

electronica Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mos ...

" sound pioneered by Moroder and Summer. The title track along with the song "

Harmony In music, harmony is the concept of combining different sounds in order to create new, distinct musical ideas. Theories of harmony seek to describe or explain the effects created by distinct pitches or tones coinciding with one another; harm ...

" reached number one on ''Billboard'' magazine's

Hot Dance Music/Club Play The Dance Club Songs (also known as National Disco Action, Hot Dance/Disco Club Play, and Hot Dance Club Play) was a chart published weekly between 1976 and 2020 by ''Billboard'' magazine. It used club disc jockeys set lists to determine the mos ...

chart. The dance hit was number one for one week then remained on the chart for six months.''Joel Whitburn's Hot Dance/Disco: 1974–2003'', 2004 Soon after the release of the album, Lane was involved in a car accident in which her face was seriously injured by the broken windshield. Lane spent three years in seclusion at her home in Las Vegas recuperating.

Track listing

#"Ooh, La, La" (Chris Bennett,

Harold Faltermeyer Hans Hugo Harold Faltermeyer (born 5 October 1952) is a German musician, composer and record producer. Faltermeyer is best known for composing the " Axel F" theme for the feature film '' Beverly Hills Cop'', an influential synth-pop hit in the ...

) #"Givin' It Up" (Bennett, Faltermeyer) #"No One Home in the City" (Bennett, Faltermeyer) #"

" (

Geoff Bastow K.I.D. was a British musician and the 1980s Italo disco musician best known for his SAM Records, SAM import and club hit "You Don't Like My Music (Hupendi Muziki Wangu?!)" that entered the ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Club Play Singles, ...

, Moroder,

Pete Bellotte Peter John Bellotte (born 28 August 1943)Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Birth Index: 1916–2005 atabase on-line Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Inde ...

) #"Morning, Noon and Night" (Bellotte, Moroder) #"Free Me" (Bellotte, Moroder) #"Harmony (12" version) (Bastow, Moroder, Bellotte) #"Ooh, La, La" (12" version) (Bennett, Moroder, Faltermeyer) #"Harmony" (7" version) (Bastow, Moroder, Bellotte)

Personnel

* Arranged By –

* Art Direction – Johnny Lee, Mary Francis * Bass – Les Hurdle * Brass – Dino Solera's Brass Section * Drums –

Keith Forsey Keith Forsey (born 2 January 1948) is an English pop musician and record producer. Early life Forsey began his career as a percussionist in the mid-late 1960s as the drummer for The Spectrum and as the drummer in Udo Lindenberg's Panik Orche ...

* Engineer ssistant– Carolyn Tapp, Steven D. Smith * Engineer ecording & Mixing– Harold Faltermeyer, Jürgen Koppers * Guitar – Günther Moll, Mats Björklund * Photography By – McGowan, Coder * Piano, Synthesizer – Harold Faltermeyer * Backing Vocals (Uncredited) –

, Gloria Weems, Yvonne Lewis * Producer –

* Strings – Fritz Sonnleitner

References

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