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Silvester Levay was a keyboardist from Munich, Germany whose contemporaries at the time were soon to be legends like Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey, Pete Belotte and Harold Faltermeyer. Producer Micheal Kunze was impressed by Levay's keyboard talents that he had him arrange the music for one of his recording sessions. Later, Levay brought him a demo of "Save Me" for his opinion. Kunze told him to put strings on it and they were both satisfied with the final product and put it out there. "Save Me" was recorded using three session singers named Ingrid, Wilma and Monica whose last names have been lost to time, but were collectively called "Silverbird", a word play on Silvester. They thought nothing of the song, and all declined to go on tour to support it or to record more material since they did not want the anonymity that went with being a band. Oh, the irony.... In the meantime the order came down from the label to have "Silverbird" record a full album. An ensuing lawsuit also threatened the project as there already was a band named "Silverbird", so the name was then changed to "Silver Convention" in time for the album's release. That also led to the hiring of Penny McLean, Ramona Wulf and Jackie Carter. Carter lasted for only a few TV performances and Linda G. Thompson took her place in time to be in the band when "Fly Robin Fly" hit #1 in the US during 1975. So "Save Me" did just that, saving Silver Convention from disco oblivion. Ramona Wulf is the Mary Wilson of the band and she occasionally reunites with Penny McLean and Linda G Thompson (the lineup that recorded the bulk of their first LP) for the odd TV appearance...