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The lead single of the album, Candy Girl, while being a massive hit on Black radio stateside and overseas, struggled for consistent plays on Pop radio and the video failed to crack the rotation at MTV in the U.S. despite strong sales numbers and being No. 1 on the Black Singles charts, surpassing George Clinton's "Atomic Dog" and Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" while staving off "Beat It" on ...
He entered them in a local talent show where they met songwriter/producer Maurice Starr who wrote "Candy Girl" for the group, envisioning them as a 1980s answer to the Jackson 5. Ralph Tresvant was positioned as the lead singer, because Starr considered his high tenor as reminiscent of a younger Michael Jackson , while having members Ricky Bell ...
Early hits included "Candy Girl", "Cool It Now", and "Mr. Telephone Man". [6] Tresvant was the lead singer on most of the songs. [7] In 1990, both Gill and Tresvant released their own solo albums, while the remaining three members formed the trio Bell Biv DeVoe; the group ceased to work together for the first half of the 1990s.
"Candy Girl" is the title of a hit single recorded in 1963 by the Four Seasons. Written by Larry Santos, it is the first original Four Seasons single composed by neither Bob Gaudio nor Bob Crewe. The writer, Larry Santos, would become a chart artist in his own right with 1976's "We Can't Hide It Anymore".
The Cars were an American rock band who recorded 89 songs during their career, of which included 86 originals and 3 covers.Emerging from the new wave scene in the late 1970s, the group consisted of singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter Ric Ocasek, bassist and singer Benjamin Orr, lead guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes, and drummer David Robinson.
This is a list of artists who have reached number one on the UK Singles Chart as recorded by the Official Charts Company since November 1952. Artists are listed alphabetically. Solo artists are listed by surname and groups are listed by full names excluding "the" or any foreign translations of "the".
The following is a list of notable soft rock bands and artists and their most notable soft rock songs. This list should not include artists whose main style of music is anything other than soft rock, even if they have released one or more songs that fall under the "soft rock" genre. (Such songs can be added under Category:Soft rock songs.)
Name of song, writer(s), original release, and year of release Song Writer(s) Original release Year Ref. "45 Revolutions Per Minute" [a] John Fogerty: Pendulum (40th Anniversary Edition) 2008 [1] "Bad Moon Rising" John Fogerty Green River: 1969 [2] "Before You Accuse Me" Ellas McDaniel † Cosmo's Factory: 1970 [3] "Bootleg" John Fogerty Bayou ...