Champagne

A pop quartet from Rotterdam, in the same vein as Abba stylistically, scored big hits penned by Wally Tax.  Members: Jan Vredenburg (ex-Johnny Kendall Machine), Bert v.d. Wiel (ex-Ander & Half, Actions, Tiepies, and Soul Serenade), Trudie Huysdens (ex-Flashback and Groupies Delite), Paulette Bronkhorst (ex-Johnny Kendall Machine and Spanish Fly). Paulette left the group in 1981 to form the duo Chica, with Leida Sabee (ex-Kids & Cats). Then Champagne fell apart. Jan went on to Shampoo.

1976 Rock and roll star/Kiss your baby tonight                  Ariola AT 17493
1977 Oh me oh my goodbye/The last song                          Ariola AT 17831
     Oh me oh my goodbye/The last song [re]                     Ariola AT 11388
     Valentino/Ain't so funny to me                             Ariola AT 11641
     LP Champagne                                              Ariola XOT 25555
1978 Light up my eyes/                                          Ariola AT 15525
1979 That's life/Music is my living                               Ariola 100392
     Blackjack/Reason                                             Ariola 100690
     Rollerball/No love at all                                    Ariola 101113
     LP Rollerball                                                Ariola 201196
1980 Shooh shooh sugar/I do I do I want you                       Ariola 101941
     Captain/Just open up your heart                                   CBS 9384

CHICA

1981 La chica/Tropi callgirl				CBS 1075
1982 Dynamo/Call me					CBS 1960
Shaking hands/

Dutch charts:

CHAMPAGNE
11-12-76 SINGLE 2 12 ROCK AND ROLL STAR [Alarmschijf @ 4-12-76]
7-5-77 SINGLE 3 9 OH ME OH MY GOODBYE [Alarmschijf @ 30-4-77]
29-10-77 SINGLE 5 8 VALENTINO
26-11-77 ALBUM 33 5 CHAMPAGNE
29-4-78 SINGLE 11 6 LIGHT UP MY EYES [Alarmschijf @ 22-4-78]
17-3-79 SINGLE 23 4 THAT'S LIFE
8-9-79 SINGLE 21 5 BLACK JACK
24-11-79 SINGLE 23 5 ROLLERBALL
21-6-80 SINGLE 33 3 SJOOH SJOOH SUGAR
6-12-80 SINGLE tip CAPTAIN
22-1-83 SINGLE tip THE WOMAN I KNOW
CHICA
18-7-81 SINGLE tip LA CHICA

Submitted by: Adri Verhoef (a3@a3.xs4all.nl-removespam)
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