Trouble Maker by Roberta Kelly

Roberta Kelly (b. November 23, 1942, Los Angeles) came to Germany in 1972 to pursue her dreams of becoming a singer. When she met producer Pete Bellotte, the idea came to record an answer-back record to Carl Douglas's hugely popular Kung-Fu Fighting, and Roberta had her recording debut in December 1974 with Kung-Fu's Back Again. At the same time she did a session job with Gitta Walthers, Betsy Allen and Lucy O'Neale, singing all the vocals for an album that was released under the name Silver Convention. Fly, Robin, Fly eventually was a global smash and a US #1 hit record. Roberta was very upset at the time that she was never credited nor asked to join the line-up who ended up promoting the song. Bellotte & Giorgio Moroder recorded another single on her, Love Power, which was released in the summer of 1975, just when Roberta's friend Donna Summer also started making a lot of noise with her Love To Love You, Baby. In January 1976, Roberta recorded 4 more songs with team Moroder/Bellotte, and her debut album was released the following month. Her third single Trouble-Maker was a hit in France and Italy, and also topped the US disco charts for two weeks in July '76.

Note: The German album had The Family as track A2, and Love Power as track B3.

She is best known for her disco hits from the Casablanca disco years, "Trouble Maker", "Zodiacs" and "Oh Happy Day"/

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