Playahitty

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Playahitty
OriginItaly
Genres Eurodance, Europop
Years active1994–1998
LabelsDisco Inn/Conte Max Music
Past members Giovanna Bersola
Website www.contemaxmusic.com

Playahitty was an Italian Eurodance group, best known for the 1994 summer hit "The Summer Is Magic", and also for other popular club tracks, such as "1-2-3! (Train with Me)". Lipsync was performed on stage and in the videos by models called Marion Zapha, Sandra, Feline and Gabrielle.

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Musical career

Their main hit, a 1994 song titled "The Summer Is Magic", featured the voice of Giovanna Bersola, best known by her stage name Jenny B, one of the most important voices of the Italo dance/Eurodance genre, who also did the real vocals for the debut hit of Corona, "The Rhythm of the Night" (all other songs on the first and second albums by Corona were sung by Sandra Chambers a.k.a. Sandy). This led to the mistaken belief that "The Summer Is Magic" was another hit song by Corona.

The song was written by Emanuele Asti and Stefano Carrara, produced by Asti and licensed worldwide by Disco Inn/Conte Max Music.

Discography

Singles

YearSinglePeak chart positionsAlbum
AUT
[1]
FRA
[1]
GER
[2]
ITA
[1] [3]
NED
[1] [4]
SWE
[1]
SWI
[1]
1994"The Summer Is Magic"1436392363712Singles only
1995"1-2-3! (Train with Me)"21446
1996"I Love the Sun"16
1997"Another Holiday"
1998"The Man I Never Had"30
2008"The Summer Is Magic 2008"31
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 International peak positions
  2. "German peak positions". Archived from the original on 2012-09-30. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
  3. Italian peak for "1,2,3" = Italian peak for "I Love The Sun"- type: year 96, day 20/07l Italian peak for "The Man I Never Had" Musica e Dischi n. 612 - September 1998 - year LIV - Charts 18/24.8.1998
  4. Netherlands, 2008 peak position