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For Real also recorded songs for the soundtracks of the films Waiting to Exhale and Fled. Paying homage to the Motown sound with "Like I Do", The Marvelettes-inspired first single and video from their second album, Free (their first for Rowdy Records), they call their sound an answer to "counterfeit R&B". "During the Motown era, artists sang ...
Nick Massi (The Hollywood Playboys, among others [2] [3]) replaced Calello from late 1960 to September 1965.; Several studio albums and over 100 singles.Originally assembled from various New Jersey club groups, over the years, other notable names, including Don Ciccone (The Critters), John Paiva (The Happenings), Jerry Corbetta and session keyboardist Robby Robinson came and went as performers ...
Their hit single "I Wanna Love You" was one of the breakout songs on the soundtrack, cracking the Top 10 of the R&B charts and reaching #16 on the Billboard Hot 100. Their follow-up single "Don't Walk Away", was their biggest hit and climbed to #2 on the R&B chart and was certified gold by the RIAA in 1993. The single went on to sell 1.5 ...
Phillips and Rutherford decided to make music their full-time career, for they were starting to write more complex music than their earlier songs with King. [24] After Banks and Gabriel decided to follow suit, the four returned to Regent Sound in August 1969 and recorded four more demos with Silver: "Family" (later known as "Dusk"), "White ...
[1] [2] [6] The quartet is known for its live performances, containing a high degree of spontaneity and levity, and blending rock, pop, jazz, blues and Tin Pan Alley styles. [1] [7] From 1974 to 1994, the band included pianist Adams, bassist Spampinato, guitarist Al Anderson, and drummer Tom Ardolino. This is considered the classic lineup of ...
This list contains singers and groups who performed in the new jack swing (or swingbeat) [1] [2] style, a hybrid style popular from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s. [3] It developed as many previous music genres did, by combining elements of jazz, R&B, funk and hip hop. [4]
They had several highly ranked singles in multiple markets (US Pop, US R&B, US Disco/Club). Their biggest hit was 1979's "Disco Nights (Rock-Freak)", a single from their debut album Disco Nights , which reached #1 (for two weeks) on the R&B singles chart , #3 on the Hot Dance Club Play and #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 .
A review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic.com stated, "this is superb music, showcasing the guitarist and pianist at their very best." [ 1 ] Writing for All About Jazz, Reid Thompson described the album as "full of intuition, soul , and swing , and lacking in pretense," going on to say that the album "has me asking myself 'does music get ...