49ers  (Italy) EuroDance, HiNRG group Added : 20/11/2001 Viewed 7808 times                                                     87 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

49ers albums

	49Ers	1989
	The Remix Album	1991
	Playing with My Heart	12th Aug 1992
	Greatest Hits 1990-2002 2 CDs	2004

49ers singles

	Die Walküre	Nov 1988
	Shadows	1989
	How Longer	1990
	Touch Me	Feb 1990	LISTEN
	Don't You Love Me	Apr 1990
	I Need You	1991
	Girl To Girl	1991
	Move Your Feet	17th Oct 1991	LISTEN
	Got To Be Free	7th May 1992	LISTEN
	The Message	29th Jul 1992	LISTEN
	Everything	16th Feb 1993	LISTEN
	Keep Your Love	Jul 1993	LISTEN
	Rocking My Body	1st Sep 1994	LISTEN
	Hanging On To Love	26th Jul 1995
	Lovin' You	2nd Feb 1996
	Baby, I'm Yours	9th Apr 1997
	I Got The Music	1st Dec 1997
	Let The Sun Shine In	Oct 1998
	My Heart	28th Oct 2002
	Touch Me 2010	25th Jun 2010
	Je cherche après Titine	21st Sep 2010
	Shine On In Love (feat. Cheryl Porter)	7th Feb 2013	LISTEN

49ers remixes

	How Longer
	Die Walküre	1988
	Touch Me	1989	LISTEN
	Don't You Love Me	1990
	Girl To Girl	1990
	I Need You	1990
	Move Your Feet	1991	LISTEN
	The Message	1992	LISTEN
	Everything	1993	LISTEN
	Touch Me (1993 Remixes)	1993

49ers biography

The first single to be released by 49ers was Die Walküre in 1988. At this time, Pieradis Rossini was a part of the team. He was also behind all the hits from the first album : Don't You Love Me, How Longer, Touch Me (with samples from tracks Rock-A-Lot by Aretha Franklin and Touch Me by Alisha Warren), I Need You, and Girl To Girl, which all reached top ten places in the charts worldwide.

In 1991, Gianfranco Bortolotti of Media Records was searching world-wide for a new singer for 49ers. Over a period of 6 months, a total of 5 singers came to Italy from America and the UK to audition for the new album. The voice had to be perfectly suited and Gianfranco didn't find what he was looking for. The search continued. Finally G.F.B. reached Michael at MCA, who was a personal friend of Ann-Marie Smith's manager. After hearing a demo-tape of her voice Gianfranco knew that the search was over.

Immediately after, Ann-Marie came to Italy to begin work on the new 49ers album. Her desire to succeed made her all the more popular with the production team of Media Records who find her a joy to work with. The first single from the album Move Your Feet stormed the charts all over Europe and America reaching the first position on the world-wide charts.

Summer 1992 was the time for a double production, double success. 49ers released another great mix Got To Be Free obtaining big results from sales and press but it's with The Music Is Moving, the first track made with Fargetta, that she became the queen of the summer. The song was played in every radio, in all kinds of clubs and Ann-Marie was invited to many shows to promote the song and the new album, Playing With Me Heart, released in the Autumn 1992.

She is still at the first position with The Music Is Moving when Media Records released a new single of 49ers The Message which followed the others in success. In December she toured Japan with Mig and Cappella (both artists from Media Records) for a big media event. Then, a new production with Fargetta. This time she made new an old record by John Miels Music! Her powerful voice gave a different interpretation to this classic, giving the new generations the possibility to know it, love it and dance to it.

February 1993, the new single Everything got to the #1 position in 120 Italian radios and scheduled to be released by London Records. Within the first week of may, that got right away in the record mirror club chart at #5.

July 1993: Keep Your Love, a single that had very good response by the audience all over Europe. October 1994: The single Rocking My Body is following the bright walk of success like the previous ones. March 1997: The single Baby, I'm Yours was released, followed by another single called I Got The Music.

The 49ers hoped that the powerful Let The Sun Shine In wouuld bring them more success. This track had got strong vocals and was very suitable for the clubs. Ann Marie Smith at her best ! But it probably did not get the success expected, since afterwards, everything became very quiet around 49ers. The Media records team were busy with other productions.

2002 : on October 28th, a new single was released in Italy. Called My Heart, it included the B-side (Escape) My Heart.

2010 : in June, ZYX release some 2010 remixes of 49ers's hits Touch Me and I Got It. In November, after almost 10 years of silence, 49ers were back with an single reminding of electro/retro style of Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP We No Speak Americano. It sampled the theme and voice of Charlie Chaplin's singing Je cherche après Titine in his movie "Modern Times" in 1936.

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© Niklas Adolfsson 1996-1999

The biography was last updated Thu, January 06th 2011

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Latest 49ers news

10/02/2013 : 49ers's new single is entitled Shine On In Love (Thanks to Krasi)

05/11/2010 : After almost 10 years of silence, 49ers are back with an single reminding of electro/retro style of Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP We No Speak Americano. It sampled the theme and voice of Charlie Chaplin's singing Je cherche après Titine in his movie Modern Times in 1936.

10/06/2010 : ZYX will also release some 2010 remixes of 49ers's hits Touch Me and I Got It

17/11/2002 : The 49ers' new single will be entitled Heart Escape. It will include some Mario Piu, Club and Cappella Remixes (thanks to Marlon Treep and Dance Artist Infos).

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