Silver Convention - Fly, Robin, Fly (1975) HD 0815007

What this video is

Recorded for AVRO's TopPop — the first and most influential dedicated pop music television programme in the Dutch-language broadcast area — at the moment 'Fly, Robin, Fly' was ascending to number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 (November 1975, three weeks at the top) and simultaneously topping the US Soul Singles and Disco/Dance charts. The song was the first by a German pop group to reach number one on the…

Why it matters

A foundational document of Euro-Disco as a transatlantic commercial force. 'Fly, Robin, Fly' established the Sound of Munich template — orchestral strings over four-on-the-floor disco pulse with near-absent lyrics — that would influence Giorgio Moroder, Donna Summer, and the broader late-1970s…