VILMA LADO

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Vilma Ladopoulos aka Vilma Lado, the ex-girlfriend of Vangelis from the 60s.  Up until recently, it was thought that she only provided vocals on the trippy single by Alpha Beta, but the single "Une Etoile/Le Vent" has been located from 1967 that Vangelis did with her.  Usually, these early projects with Vangelis have little background information.  However, an underground Greek label, Modal Records, dug up this single and put one of the tracks, "Une Etoile", on their album Operation Shake the Earth Vol. 1, and on the liner notes, has this to say about Vilma: "Vilma Lado has actually little to do with singing. "Une Etoile" is a single under the Zodiac record label, which was actually the result of her boyfriend's promotion: Vangelis Papathanassiou (leading member of The Forminx & the later Aphrodite's Child), who also composed and played hammond in this song. Actually, the band playing in this single is the Aphrodite's Child, a few days before leaving for Europe. Anyway, although Vilma lack of professional experience, her freshness is surely enough to make this song the absolute ye-ye shake, but unfortunately not sufficient to make it a commercial success." The song is not really that bad. Her singing is not that much different than the other female singers Vangelis worked with in the 60s, such as Maria or Zoe Kouroukli. [Thanks to Doc Oc for the scan of the A side].

7" singles

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Title	Pic?	Country	Label	Catalog No.	Notes
Une Etoile/Le Vent		Greece	Zodiac	LS 8002

Various Artists LPs

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Title	Pic?	Country	Label	Catalog No.	Notes
Operation Shake the Earth Vol. 1		Greece	Modal Records	MD 101	With "Une Etoile"

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