Saturday, November 6, 2010
Ashford & Simpson Found A Cure
Nickolas Ashford (born May 4, 1942, in Fairfield County, South Carolina) and Valerie Simpson (born August 26, 1946 in The Bronx, New York) are a husband and wife songwriting/production team and recording artists.[1] They met at Harlem's White Rock Baptist Church in 1963. After having recorded unsuccessfully as a duo, they joined aspiring solo artist and former member of the Ikettes, Josie Jo Armstead, at the Scepter/Wand label where their compositions were recorded by Ronnie Milsap ("Never Had It So Good"), Maxine Brown ("One Step At A Time"), as well as the Shirelles and Chuck Jackson. Another of the trio's songs "Let's Go Get Stoned" gave Ray Charles a number one U.S. R&B hit in 1966. That same year Ashford & Simpson joined Motown where their best-known songs included "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", "You're All I Need To Get By", "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing", and "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)". As performers, Ashford and Simpson's best-known song is "Solid" (1984 US and 1985 UK). The duo was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002.
Discography
Albums
Valerie Simpson
Year Album Chart positions[2] Record label
US
Pop US
R&B
1971 Exposed — — Motown
1972 Valerie Simpson 162 50
[edit] Ashford & Simpson
Year Album Chart positions[3] Record label
US
Pop US
R&B
1973 Gimme Something Real 156 18 Hopsack and Silk
Keep It Comin' — — Motown
1974 I Wanna Be Selfish 195 21 Warner Bros.
1976 Come As You Are 189 35
1977 So So Satisfied 180 30
Send It 52 10
1978 Is It Still Good to Ya 20 1
1979 Stay Free 23 3
1980 A Musical Affair 38 8
1981 Performance 125 45
1982 Street Opera 45 5 Capitol
1983 High-Rise 84 14
1984 Solid 29 1
1986 Real Love 74 12
1989 Love or Physical 135 28
1996 Been Found — 49 Ichiban/Ryko
"—" denotes the album failed to chart
Singles
Valerie Simpson
* 1971: "Can't It Wait Until Tomorrow"
* 1972: "Silly Wasn't I" - US #63, R&B #24
Ashford & Simpson
* 1974: "(I'd Know You) Anywhere" - US #88, R&B #37
* 1976: "It'll Come, It'll Come, It'll Come" - R&B #96
* 1976: "Somebody Told a Lie" - R&B #58
* 1977: "Over and Over" - R&B #39
* 1977: "Send It" - R&B #15
* 1977: "So So Satisfied" - R&B #27
* 1977: "Tried, Tested and Found True" - R&B #52
* 1978: "By Way Of Love's Express" - R&B #35
* 1978: "Don't Cost You Nothing" - US #79, R&B #10
* 1978: "It Seems to Hang On" - R&B #2
* 1979: "Flashback" - R&B #70
* 1979: "Found a Cure" - US #36, R&B #2
* 1979: "Is It Still Good to Ya" - R&B #12
* 1979: "Nobody Knows" - R&B #19
* 1980: "Happy Endings" - R&B #35
* 1980: "Love Don't Make It Right" - R&B #6
* 1981: "Get Out Your Handkerchief" - R&B #65
* 1981: "It Shows in Your Eyes" - R&B #35
* 1982: "Love It Away" - R&B #20
* 1982: "Street Corner" - US #56, R&B #9
* 1983: "High-Rise" - R&B #17
* 1983: "It's Much Deeper" - R&B #45
* 1984: "I'm Not That Tough" - R&B #78
* 1984: "Solid" - US #12, R&B #1, Can. #7
* 1985: "Babies" - R&B #29
* 1985: "Outta the World" - R&B #4
* 1986: "Count Your Blessings" - US #84, R&B #4
* 1989: "I'll Be There for You" - R&B #2
* 1990: "Hungry for Me Again" - R&B #40
* 1996: "Been Found" - R&B #80
* 1997: "What If" - R&B #94
Aretha Franklin - Ladies Only - La Diva - Mike Douglas Show
La Diva is an Aretha Franklin album released in 1979. In an attempt to make a comeback, Franklin decided to record a disco-oriented album with the help of the late Van McCoy. In fact it was McCoy's final work as he died in June of that year. The record was released as disco music was running its course and New Wave rock was becoming the new musical trend.
The album was a commercial failure. It peaked at #146 on Billboard's album chart and sold less than 100,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. "Ladies Only" reached # 33 on Billboard's R&B Singles Chart and "Half A Love" #65. La Diva marked the end of Aretha's 12-year tenure with Atlantic. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak, and features 3 of her own compositions, as well as a composition by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha's failed disco lp, "La Diva" also includes substantial funk/ R&B tracks as well: The Emotions "Reasons Why", Zulema's "Half a Love" and scorching versions of Lalome Wahsburn's "It's Gonna Get A Bit Better" and her own "Honey I Need Your Love."
Side one
1. "Ladies Only" (Aretha Franklin) 5:15
2. "It's Gonna Get a Bit Better" (Lalome Washburn) 5:20
3. "What If I Should Ever Need You" (Charles H. Kipps) 3:32
4. "Honey I Need Your Love" (Aretha Franklin) 2:45
5. "I Was Made for You" (Clarence Franklin) 4:03
Side two
1. "Only Star" (Aretha Franklin) 5:04
2. "Reasons Why" (Skip Scarborough, Wanda Hutchinson, Wayne Vaughan) 3:55
3. "You Brought Me Back to Life" (Van McCoy) 4:24
4. "Half a Love" (Zulema Cusseaux) 5:25
5. "The Feeling" (Van McCoy) 4:45
ann margret love rush 1979 disco paul sabu
Ann-Margret Olsson (born April 28, 1941) is a Swedish-American actress, singer and dancer whose professional name is Ann-Margret. She became famous for her starring roles in Bye, Bye Birdie, Viva Las Vegas, The Cincinnati Kid, Carnal Knowledge, and Tommy. Her later career includes character roles in Grumpy Old Men, Any Given Sunday, The Santa Clause 3, and The Break-Up. She has won five Golden Globe Awards and been nominated for two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and six Emmy Awards. On August 21, 2010, she won her first Emmy Award for her guest appearance on Law & Order: SVU.
Recording career
Ann-Margret began recording for RCA in 1961. Her first RCA recording was "Lost Love" from her debut album And Here She Is: Ann-Margret, produced in Nashville with Chet Atkins on guitar, the Jordanaires (Elvis Presley's backup singers), and the Anita Kerr Singers, with liner notes by mentor George Burns. She had a sexy throaty singing voice and RCA attempted to capitalize on the 'female Elvis' comparison by having her record a version of "Heartbreak Hotel" and other songs stylistically similar to Presley's. She scored the minor hit "I Just Don't Understand" (from her second LP) which entered the Billboard Top 40 in the third week of August 1961 and stayed six weeks, peaking at 17. The song was later covered in live performances by The Beatles, who never officially recorded any version of the song. Her only charting album was The Beauty and the Beard (1964) on which she was accompanied by trumpeter Al Hirt. She also sang at the Academy Awards presentation in 1962, singing the Oscar-nominated song "Bachelor in Paradise". Her contract with RCA ended in 1966. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, she had hits on the dance charts, the most successful being 1979's "Love Rush" which peaked at number eight on the disco/dance charts.
Discography
Singles
* "I Just Don't Understand" (1961) U.S #17
* "It Do Me So Good" (1961) U.S #97
* "What Am I Supposed To Do" (1962) U.S #85, #19 Adult Contemporary Chart
* "Sleep In the Grass" (1969) U.S #113 (Bubbling Under Chart)
* "Love Rush" (1979) U.S #8 (Club Play Chart)
* "Midnight Message" (1980) U.S #12 (Club Play Chart)
* "Everybody Needs Somebody Sometimes" (1981) U.S. #22 (Club Play Chart)
EPs
* And Here She Is...Ann-Margret (1961)
* Side 1: "I Just Don't Understand"/"I Don't Hurt Anymore"
* Side 2: "Teach Me Tonight"/"Kansas City"
* More and More American Hits (compilation) (1962)
* Side 2: "What Am I Supposed To Do"
Albums
* And Here She Is...Ann-Margret (1961)
* On the Way Up (1962)
* The Vivacious One (1962)
* Bachelor's Paradise (1963)
* Beauty and the Beard (1964) (with Al Hirt) U.S. #83
* David Merrick Presents Hits from His Broadway Hits (1964) (with David Merrick) U.S #141
* Songs from "The Swinger (And Other Swingin' Songs) (1966)
* The Cowboy and the Lady (1969) (with Lee Hazlewood)
* Ann-Margret (1979)
* God Is Love: The Gospel Sessions (2001)
* Ann-Margret's Christmas Carol Collection (2004)
* Love Rush (reissue of Ann-Margret) (2007)
* Everybody Needs Somebody Sometimes (single, reissue) (2007)
* All's Faire In Love (2008)
Soundtracks
* State Fair (1962) U.S #12
* Bye Bye Birdie (1963) U.S #2
* The Pleasure Seekers (1965)
* Tommy (1975) U.S #2
* Newsies (1992) U.S #149
Anita Ward Ring My Bell
"Ring My Bell" is a 1979 popular disco song by Anita Ward. It was originally written for Stacy Lattisaw, but when she signed with a different label, Ward was asked to sing it instead and it became her only major hit. The song hit number one on the disco charts. "Ring My Bell" went to number one on both the Billboard Hot 100, and soul singles chart. It also reached number one on the UK Singles Chart."Ring My Bell" has been covered by many artists since its original release, including Ann Lee, Tori Amos, Blood Sisters, Dynamic Duo, D'Flow Production Squad, Collette, Saïan Supa Crew, INOJ, Pato Fu, Joey Boy, and Sxip Shirey. It has also been remixed many times and is considered a disco-era classic.
Song Information
The song was included in the 1981 film Playgirl, the 1996 film A Thin Line Between Love and Hate, the 1998 film The Waterboy, the 1999 film Mystery Men, the 2001 film Corky Romano, the 2002 film Dahmer, the 2006 film The Possible, the 2007 film Are We Done Yet?, and the 2010 film The Book of Eli. It was also used in a 1997 advertisement for Burger King, 2008 advertisement for Heinz baked beans; as the theme to Alison Bell's 97.3FM radio show; sung on the karaoke in an episode of The Steve Harvey Show; sung on the karaoke in an episode of Thank God You're Here; as the goal song for Ottawa Senators defenceman Brendan Bell; as the at-bat song for former Houston Astros outfielder Derek Bell; as the scoring song for Milwaukee Bucks guard Charlie Bell; as part of a radio-station loop in the video games True Crime: New York City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas; and in numerous episodes of the TV series Will And Grace.
[edit] DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince version
"Ring My Bell" served as the second single taken from DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince's fourth studio album, Homebase. The song won a Grammy Award for best dance single in 1992. It spent a week at number #1 on the US R&B Chart,[4] as well as reaching #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also entered UK Singles Chart, peaking at #11
Alma Faye Brooks - It's Over (1979)
Alma Faye Brooks
The beautiful American born/Canadian raised chanteuse Alma Faye Brooks burst on the scene in 1977 with a bright little number that gave her the first taste of American exposure. "Stop, I Don't Need No Sympathy" was a bright, horn-laddened number that was released on an RCA records 12" single.
Alma is a 2 time Juno award nominee and was recognized as "Most Promising Female Vocalist". She shared the stage with great names such as Gloria Gaynor, Claudja Barry, Lisa Del Bello, Karen Silver, France Joli, Boule Noire, René Simard and Zachery Richard.
Our " Miss Brooks " who loves all genres of music is going back to one of her musical periods reminiscent of the days when she sang jazz standards in the Catskill Mountains. Today, Alma and Louis are currently collaborating on original material.
Abba - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)", originally titled "Been and Gone and Done It", is one of Swedish pop group ABBA's biggest disco hits. It was recorded and released in 1979 with "The King Has Lost His Crown" as the B-side. It appears on ABBA's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 album, as well as their best-selling ABBA Gold album.
Original version
History
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man after Midnight)" was written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, with the lead vocal sung by Agnetha Fältskog. Agnetha, as the narrator, weaves the image of a lonely young woman who longs for a romantic relationship and views her loneliness as a forbidding darkness of night, even drawing parallels to how the happy endings of movie stars are so different from her own existence. Some people believe though that she is slipping into insanity and will do anything to get romance, even if it means a one night stand. The song was recorded at Polar Music Studios in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 1979, and was ready for release in October of that year, in conjunction with the group's tour of North America and Europe.
Originally, ABBA had recorded another song, "Rubber Ball Man", which was planned as a single. It featured the typical "ABBA-arrangement" with both Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad on lead vocals and the use of classical strings. This song was also performed by the group during rehearsals for their current tour as "Under My Sun". However, they felt that "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!", with its disco sound, would be a better choice, and thus, "Rubber Ball Man" remained nothing more than a demo.
The single version of this song, which was released in its full length of 4:46 everywhere else in the world, was released in the United States and Canada in an edited format, being just 3:36 in length. This was done by removing the first half of the opening instrumental, the first four of the eight bars of the instrumental bridge between the second and final chorus, and fading the song out early. It is believed the edit was done by Atlantic, ABBA's North American record label, and not Polar, hence the reason why it was available only in the USA and Canada. This single version has never appeared on any commercial CD issued by Polar/Universal to date, and marked the only time Atlantic ever commercially released an edited version of an ABBA single while they had the North American rights to release ABBA recordings.
"¡Dame! ¡Dame! ¡Dame!" is the Spanish language version of the song. The song was released as a single to promote Gracias Por La Música in Latin America and other Spanish-speaking countries.
The single was never released by Polar Music in the group's native Sweden, instead being featured on the 'Greatest Hits Volume 2' album, which did get a Swedish release. Whilst Polar released the single in neighbouring Norway, Denmark and Finland, copies of these versions were not made available in the Swedish record stores, who thus arranged to import copies of the United Kingdom version on Epic Records. Sales of these imports were sufficient for the single to reach number 16 on the sales chart in Sweden.
[edit] Reception
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" was another highly successful song for ABBA. It hit #1 in Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland & Switzerland, while reaching the Top 3 in Austria, Germany, Great Britain, The Netherlands & Norway. It also proved to be their most successful song in Japan, hitting #17.
[edit] Chart positions
Chart (1979) Position
Australian Singles Chart 8
Austrian Singles Chart 2
Belgian Singles Chart 1
British Singles Chart 3
Dutch Singles Chart 2
Finnish Singles Chart 1
French Singles Chart 1
German Singles Chart 3
Irish Singles Chart 1
Japanese Singles Chart 17
New Zealand Singles Chart 15
Norwegian Singles Chart 2
Swedish Singles Chart 16
Swiss Singles Chart 1
Donna Lynton theme from Charlie's Angels (soundtrack)
Donna Lynton born 1 Januarie 1951 in Brooklyn,New York as Dianne Carol lynton is a american singer living in Holland known for her hit Theme song from Charlie's Angels.
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Thursday, November 4, 2010
Teddy Pendergrass - Do Me
Theodore DeReese "Teddy" Pendergrass (March 26, 1950 – January 13, 2010 was an American R&B/soul singer and songwriter. Pendergrass first rose to fame as lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in the 1970s before a successful solo career at the end of the decade. In 1982, he was severely injured in an auto accident in Philadelphia, resulting in his being paralyzed from the waist down. After his injury, the affable entertainer founded the Teddy Pendergrass Alliance, a foundation that helps those with spinal cord injuries. Pendergrass commemorated 25 years of living after his spinal cord injury with star filled event, Teddy 25 - A Celebration of Life at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center. His last performance was on a PBS special at Atlantic City's Borgata Casino in November 2008.
Early life
Pendergrass was born Theodore DeReese Pendergrass at Thomas Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the only child of Jesse Pendergrass and Ida Geraldine Epps. Pendergrass' father left Teddy at an early age and later was murdered when Pendergrass was 12. Pendergrass grew up in a local Philadelphia slum and sung often at church. Pendergrass once dreamed of being a pastor and got his wish when at ten he was ordained as a minister according to author Robert Ewell Greene. He also took up drums during this time and was a junior deacon of his church. Pendergrass attended Thomas Edison High School for Boys (now closed). He sang with the Edison Mastersingers. Subsequently, he dropped out in the eleventh grade to enter the music business. Pendergrass' early career was as a drummer for local Philadelphia groups. Eventually he landed a drumming gig for the group, The Cadillacs. In 1970, the singer was spotted by Blue Notes founder Harold Melvin (1939–1997) and immediately convinced Pendergrass to play drums in his group. However, during a performance, Pendergrass began singing along after coming from the back of the stage jumping off its rear and Melvin immediately changed his mind on Pendergrass making him the lead singer of the group. By the time Pendergrass had joined the group, the Blue Notes had struggled to find success. That all changed when after a successful audition, they landed a recording deal with Philadelphia International Records, in 1971, thus beginning Pendergrass' successful collaboration with label founders Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff.
Early career
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes: 1972-1977
In 1972, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes released their first single, a slow, solemn ballad titled "I Miss You". The song was originally written for The Dells but the group passed on the song and noting how Pendergrass sounded like Dells lead singer Marvin Junior, Kenny Gamble decided to build the song with Pendergrass, then only 21 at the time of the recording of the song, singing much of the song in a raspy baritone wail that became his trademark. The song also featured Bluenotes member Lloyd Parks singing falsetto in the background and spotlighted Harold Melvin adding in a rap near the end of the song as Pendergrass kept singing, feigning tears. The song, one of Gamble and Huff's most creative productions, became a major rhythm and blues hit and put the Blue Notes on the map.
The group's follow-up single, "If You Don't Know Me by Now", brought the group to the mainstream with the song reaching the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 while also reaching number-one on the soul singles chart. Like "I Miss You" before it, the song was originally intended for a different artist, fellow Philadelphian native Patti LaBelle and her group Labelle but the group couldn't record it due to scheduling conflicts. Pendergrass and LaBelle developed a close friendship that would last until Pendergrass' death.
The group rode to fame with several more releases over the years including "The Love I Lost", a song which predated the upcoming disco music scene; the ballad "Hope That We Can Be Together Soon", and socially conscious singles "Wake Up Everybody" and "Bad Luck", the latter song about the Watergate scandal. One of the group's important singles was their original version of the Philly soul classic, "Don't Leave Me This Way", which turned into a disco smash when Motown artist Thelma Houston released her version in 1976. By 1975, Pendergrass and Harold Melvin were at odds, mainly over monetary issues and personality conflicts. Despite the fact that Pendergrass sung all of the group's songs, Melvin was controlling the group's finances. Pendergrass discovered this while attending a party with Melvin. At one point, Pendergrass wanted the group to be renamed "Teddy Pendergrass and the Blue Notes" because fans kept mistaking him as Melvin. Pendergrass left the group in 1977 and the Blue Notes struggled with his replacements. They eventually left Philadelphia International and by the early 1980s had disbanded for good.
Solo career
Early solo success
In 1977, Pendergrass released his self-titled album, which went platinum on the strength of the disco hit, "I Don't Love You Anymore". Its follow-up single, "The Whole Town's Laughing At Me", became a top 20 R&B hit. It was quickly followed by Life Is a Song Worth Singing, in 1978. That album was even more successful with its singles including "Only You" and "Close the Door". The disco single, "Get Up, Get Down, Get Funky, Get Loose" was popular in dance clubs. 1979 brought two successes, Teddy and the live release, Live Coast to Coast. Hits off Teddy included "Come and Go With Me" and "Turn Off the Lights". His 1980 album, TP, included his signature song, "Love TKO" and the Ashford & Simpson composition, "Is It Still Good to You". Between 1977 and 1981, Pendergrass landed five consecutive platinum albums, which was a then-record setting number for a rhythm and blues artist.
Pendergrass' popularity became massive at the end of 1977. With sold-out audiences packing his audiences, Pendergrass' manager soon noticed that a huge number of his audience consisted of women of all races. They made up a plan for Pendergrass' next tour to have it with just female audiences only, starting a trend that continues today called "women's only concerts". With five platinum albums and two gold albums, Pendergrass was on his way to be what the media was calling him, "the black Elvis", not only in terms of his crossover popularity but also due to him buying a mansion akin to Elvis' Graceland, located just outside of his hometown of Philadelphia. By early 1982, Pendergrass was the leading R&B male artist of his day usurping competition including closest rivals Marvin Gaye and Barry White. In 1980, the Isley Brothers released "Don't Say Goodnight (It's Time for Love)" to compete with Pendergrass' "Turn Off the Lights", which sensed Pendergrass' influence on the quiet storm format of black music.
[edit] Accident
On March 18, 1982, in the Germantown section of Philadelphia on Lincoln Drive, Pendergrass was involved in an automobile accident. The brakes failed on his 1981 Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit, causing the car to hit a guard rail, cross into the opposite traffic lane, and hit two trees. Pendergrass and his passenger, Tenika Watson, a transsexual woman, whose birth name was Johnnie Watson, who was a nightclub performer with whom Pendergrass was acquainted, were trapped in the wreckage for 45 minutes. While Watson walked away from the accident with minor injuries, Pendergrass suffered a spinal cord injury, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.[4][5]
[edit] Later solo career
[edit] Personal life
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Pendergrass had three children, Tisha, LaDonna and Teddy II. In 1987, he married a former Philadanco dancer named Karen Still, who had also danced in his shows. Karen was Pendergrass' primary caregiver. The couple amicably divorced in 2003. Pendergrass met Joan Williams in the spring of 2006. Pendergrass proposed to Joan after four months and they married in a private ceremony officiated by Teddy's Pastor Allyn Waller of Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church on March 23, 2008. A formal wedding was celebrated at The Ocean Cliff Resort in Newport, Rhode Island on September 6, 2008.
As members of Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church, Joan Pendergrass set up The Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church Youth Fund in the name of Teddy Pendergrass to provide assistance and a center for Philadelphia's inner city youth.
He published his autobiography, Truly Blessed, in 1992. There are plans to make a feature film biopic of Teddy's life. Tyrese Gibson is set to star as the late singer.
Death
On June 5, 2009, Pendergrass underwent successful surgery for colon cancer and recovered to return home. A few weeks later he returned to the hospital with respiratory issues. After seven months, he died of respiratory failure on January 13, 2010, at age 59 with wife Joan by his side, while hospitalized at Bryn Mawr Hospital in suburban Philadelphia.[6] Teddy is survived by his mother Ida, wife Joan, three children; Tisha, Teddy II, LaDonna, stepdaughters Sherilla Leftrade, Jessica Avila and four grandchildren and three stepgrandchildren.
Joan Pendergrass is the executrix of The Theodore Dereese Pendergrass Estate.[citation needed]
Discography
Main article: Teddy Pendergrass discography
Grammy Award nominations
Pendergrass received the following five nominations for Grammy Awards.
Award Year Result Category Song
Grammy Award 1979 Nomination Best Male R&B Vocal Performance "Close the Door"
1982 Nomination Best Male R&B Vocal Performance "I Can't Live Without Your Love"
1989 Nomination Best Male R&B Vocal Performance "Joy"
1992 Nomination Best Male R&B Vocal Performance "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"
1994 Nomination Best Male R&B Vocal Performance "Voodoo"
[edit] In popular culture
In Eddie Murphy's standup comedy, Delirious, Murphy does an imitation of Pendergrass singing "Only You", saying Pendergrass' masculine voice "scares the bitches into liking him".
Latin Legend India, also known as The Princess of Salsa Music, recorded a cover of Teddy's song "Turn off the lights" on her 2010 album, Unica. India explained in an interview that she had grown up listening to some of this music and she had decided to do a cover to this song with a more tropical/Salsa feel to it.
Tata Vega - I Just Keep Thinking About You Baby
Táta Vega (born Carmen Rosa Vega, October 7, 1951, Queens, New York) is an American vocalist whose career spans theater, film, and a variety of musical genres.
Career
Ms. Vega began her professional singing career in 1963. In California (1969-70) she was cast in the Los Angeles production of the Broadway musical, Hair. From there went on to join the group Pollution, led by Dobie Gray (who also was also in Hair), and then became a member of the group Earthquire, which released an album in 1973 on Motown's Natural Resources label.
With Motown Records, Vega released four solo albums on the Tamla label: Full Speed Ahead (1976), Totally Táta (1977), Try My Love (1978) and Givin' All My Love (1981). These albums featured a diverse range of genres, including classic Motown soul, country or southern soul, disco, jazz, funk, country, Latin, doo-wop, and gospel.[citation needed]
She has had an active career as a backing vocalist, working with Stevie Wonder, Andraé Crouch, Lou Rawls, Rare Earth, Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, Michael Jackson, Ray Charles and Madonna. She is featured on the 2010 Elton John and Leon Russell CD The Union. She also worked in film, performing the voice of Shug Avery in The Color Purple; she is featured on four songs on the 1986 soundtrack album, one of which, "Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)", was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Song category.
In 1994, she recorded the Spanish version of "The Circle Of Life" (El ciclo sin fin) for the Latin American dubbing of Disney's The Lion King.
In 1998, she signed with Quincy Jones’s Qwest Records and released a gospel album, Now I See.
Táta Vega signed with Do Rite Records, who released a new Gospel album "This Joy" on October 27, 2009.
[edit] Discography
* Pollution (1971), Pollution, Prophesy Records, OCLC: 38849601
* Pollution (1972), Pollution II, Prophesy Records, OCLC: 38372430
* Earthquire (1972), Earthquire, Natural Resources Motown, OCLC: 31848118
* Vega, Tata (1976), Full Speed Ahead, Tamla Motown, OCLC: 33057917
* Vega, Tata (1977), Totally Tata, Tamla Motown, OCLC: 33057752
* Vega, Tata (1978), Try My Love, Tamla Motown, OCLC: 6634273
* Vega, Tata (1980), Givin' All My Love, Tamla Motown
* Vega, Tata (1987), Time's So Right, Independent
* Vega, Tata (1998), Now I See, Qwest Records, OCLC: 40485132
* Vega, Tata (_2009), This Joy, Do Rite Records
Two man sound - Disco samba
Two Man Sound was a Belgian pop trio of the 1970s. Their style combined the disco music typical of the era with samba and bossa nova. Their signature hits were "Charlie Brown" and a Latin track called "Disco Samba". Charlie Brown was a success in Belgium and Italy but never broke the United Kingdom. The medley "Disco Samba" became a huge European hit in the early 1980s, with repeated hit-listings in euro-charts from 1983 through 1986. The samba song "Que Tal America" became an 'underground disco anthem' in North America
Other projects
Band members Lacomblez and Deprijck were also record producers and songwriters who penned the international hit "Ça plane pour moi" for fellow Belgian Plastic Bertrand. Deprijck, who was also producer on "Ça plane pour moi", appeared under numerous other pseudonyms during his career; finding fame in several European countries for his work with Lou and the Hollywood Bananas[2] who produced the minor 1978 ska hit, "Kingston, Kingston".[3] Two Man Sound's 1979 track "Que Tal America" was a minor hit (#46) in the UK Singles Chart.[4]
Group members
* Lou Deprijck
* Sylvain Vanholmen formerly of the Wallace Collection (band)
* Yvan Lacomblez, often known by the nickname 'Pipou'
Discography
* 1972 - Rubo Negro (Pink Elephant)
* 1973 - Vini Vini (Pink Elephant)
* 1976 - Charlie Brown (Wea)
* 1977 - Oye Come Va (Wea)
* 1978 - Disco Samba (Vogue) distributed by JDC Records
* 1979 - Que Tal America
* 1980 - Two Man Sound (Vogue)
* 1990 - The Best of... (CD, Ariola Records)
Vicki Sue Robinson
Vicki Sue Robinson (May 31, 1954 – April 27, 2000) was an American theatre and film actress and singer, closely associated with the disco era of late 1970s pop music; she is most famous for her 1976 hit, "Turn the Beat Around.
Early life and career
Born in Harlem, New York, to African-American Shakespearean actor Bill Robinson by his European-American wife Marianne, a folk singer. Vicki Sue Robinson was reared in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for most of her early years, returning with her family to New York City when she was ten. She had given her first public performance in 1960 at the age of six, when she accompanied her mother on stage at the Philadelphia Folk Festival. Ten years later, at the age of sixteen, Robinson made her professional performing debut when she joined the Broadway cast of the musical Hair. Robinson remained with Hair for six weeks before moving to a new Broadway production, Soon, whose cast included Peter Allen, Barry Bostwick, Nell Carter and Richard Gere.After the show's short run, Robinson appeared in the off-Broadway play Long Time Coming, Long Time Gone in which she and Richard Gere played Mimi and Richard Farina. New York magazine opined Robinson "sings with gentle power, accompanying herself on guitar and dulcimer, and moves with astounding confidence."Robinson also had bit parts in the films Going Home (1971) and To Find A Man (1972). After a sojourn in Japan Robinson returned to Broadway in 1973 joining the cast of Jesus Christ Superstar.
Robinson made her recording debut as one of several Hair veterans invited to sing background on Todd Rundgren's Something, Anything album released in 1972. In 1973 she spent time in Japan with Itsuro Shimoda with whom she did session work on his album Love Songs and Lamentations and toured nationally.
"Turn the Beat Around"
In 1975, Robinson was providing vocals at a New York recording session for the album Many Sunny Places, by Scott Fagan, a singer she'd performed with in Greenwich Village clubs. Warren Schatz, a producer/engineer affiliated with RCA, was struck by Robinson's voice and saw her potential as a disco-oriented artist. Schatz invited Robinson to cut some demos, including a remake of the Foundations' "Baby Now That I've Found You" which became Robinson's first solo release. Despite that track's failure, RCA green-lit Schatz's producing Robinson's debut album Never Gonna Let You Go. The title cut - a Schatz original - became a #10 disco hit but another album track: "Turn the Beat Around" began to build "buzz" and was expediently released as a single: topping the disco charts on March 20, 1976 "Turn the Beat Around" broke on Top 40 radio in Boston in May, almost immediately topping the charts there. Despite failure to crack the major markets of New York City and Los Angeles, "Turn the Beat Around" reached the U.S. Top 10 in August, overall spending some six months on the Billboard Hot 100 and propelling the Never Gonna Let You Go album to #49. "Turn the Beat Around" would chart internationally, reaching #14 in Canada, #44 in France, #11 in the Netherlands and #12 in South Africa. The track would earn Robinson a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.Follow-up
Again with Schatz producing, Robinson cut the Vicki Sue Robinson album for release in the fall of 1976: although its lead single, a cover of Bobby Womack's "Daylight" was only a minor hit (#61), the album reached #45. Robinson's next Hot 100 appearance was in August 1977 with her version of David Gates' "Hold Tight" (#67) but its parent album, Half and Half - produced by Schatz - was not released until 1978 and without the impetus of a major Pop hit it charted no higher than #110. In 1979 Robinson contributed the track "Easy to Be Hard" to the Schatz production Disco Spectacular - an album of dance versions of songs from the musical Hair inspired by the release film version - and recorded what would prove to be her final album, Movin' On; Although Schatz was credited as the album's executive producer, it was produced by Evelyn "Champagne" King's producer, T. Life. Movin' On's tracks were ignored even in the dance clubs: Robinson did however score a 1979 club hit with "Nighttime Fantasy," a track written and produced by Norman Bergen and Reid Whitelaw recorded for the film Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula. Also in 1979 Robinson appeared in a film made by the same production company as Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula, titled "Gangsters," which also featured T. Life and Cissy Houston and the first credited screen role for Jean Smart. The 1980sIn 1980 Robinson moved from RCA to another major label Ariola but she was dropped following one 7" release, "Nothing But a Heartache." Subsequently Robinson reteamed with Schatz for releases on a number of dance-oriented labels: Prelude, Ariola, Promise, Perfect and Profile, with the last-named releasing her dance version of "To Sir With Love," which became a surprise Top Ten hit in Australia in 1983. Robinson's next release, a remake of "Everlasting Love," in 1984 was her last recording for almost fifteen years apart from the track "Grab Them Cakes" a duet with Junkyard Dog featured on The Wrestling Album (1985). "Grab Them Cakes" was issued as a single but seems to have attracted attention only by virtue of Cyndi Lauper's "playing" the guitar in the performance video.
Robinson had sung background on Irene Cara's hit single "Fame" in 1980 and as the decade progressed she returned to session work backing such singers as Michael Bolton and Cher. She also established herself as a career jingle singer for such products as Wrigley's Doublemint chewing gum, Maybelline Cosmetics, Downy fabric softener, Hanes underwear, New York Bell, and Folger's coffee. From 1987 to 1988 Robinson provided the singing voice for the characters Rapture and Minx in the animated TV series Jem.
Career resurgence
Robinson regained some publicity from Gloria Estefan's 1994 version of "Turn the Beat Around." The success of the Estefan single inspired Robinson to re-record a new version of the song for the flip side of Robinson's 1995 single For Real. This led to TV guest appearances on a number of talk shows as well as some recording, film, and stage projects. First, she provided backing vocals on RuPaul's 1996 album Foxy Lady, where the two of them also recorded a duet. Then, in 1997, she recorded the song House Of Joy for DJ/producer Junior Vasquez, which became Robinson's first hit single in the United Kingdom. She then recorded the song My Stomp, My Beat for the motion picture Chasing Amy, which starred Ben Affleck. In October of that same year Robinson played herself on Comedy Central's mock TV documentary Unauthorized Biography: Milo, Death of a Supermodel. A resurgence of interest in disco music by the mid 1990s led Robinson, along with fellow disco veterans K.C. and the Sunshine Band, Thelma Houston, Gloria Gaynor and The Village People to embark on a well-received world tour.Upon returning to the U.S. in 1999, Robinson went back to her roots in theatre by performing in an off-Broadway musical titled Vicki: Behind The Beat, which was semi-autobiographical in nature and featured her hit songs, along with her best-known jingles. The play was a continuation of her popular, enticing cabaret show, which received raved reviews. In June of that same year she provided the track "Pokémon (Dance Mix)" from the "2.B.A. Master" soundtrack for the English dub of the Pokémon anime. Three months later, in September, Robinson released her final single, "Move On," which reached #18 on Billboard's Dance Chart. During that same month, she was forced to withdraw from her off-Broadway show owing to ill health. However, before her state became terminal, Robinson undertook the role of a fairy godmother in the independent film Red Lipstick, which was released on April 16, 2000.
Death
On April 27, 2000, eleven days after the release of Red Lipstick, Robinson died of cancer at her home in Wilton, Connecticut. She was thirty-five days short of reaching the age of 46.Discography
Albums
| Year | Album | Black Albums | Pop Albums |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Never Gonna Let You Go | 51 | 49 |
| Vicki Sue Robinson | 39 | 45 | |
| 1978 | Half & Half | 56 | 110 |
| 1979 | Movin' On | n/a | n/a |
Singles
- "Baby Now That I Found You" - 1975
- "Turn the Beat Around" - 1976
- "Never Gonna Let You Go" - 1976
- "Daylight" - 1976
- "Should I Stay" / "I Won't Let You Go" - 1977
- "Hold Tight" - 1977
- "Trust In Me" - 1978
- "Jealousy" - 1978
- "Freeway Song" - 1978
- "Nighttime Fantasy" - 1979 (from the film Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula)
- "Nothin' But A Heartache"
- "Hot Summer Night" - 1981
- "Give My Love Back" - 1982
- "Summertime Fun"
- "To Sir with Love" - 1983
- "Everlasting Love" - 1984
- "Grab Them Cakes" - 1985 (Junykard Dog featuring Vicki Sue Robinson)
- "For Real" - 1995
- "House of Joy" - 1997
- "Move On" - 1999
- "Pokemon (Dance Mix)" - 1999
Filmography
- Going Home - 1971
- To Find A Man - 1972
- Gangsters - 1979
- Unauthorized Biography: Milo, Death Of A Supermodel - 1997
- Red Lipstick - 2000
Theater
- Hair - 1970
- Soon - 1971
- Long Time Coming, Long Time Gone - 1971
- Voices From The Third World - 1972
- Jesus Christ Superstar - 1973
- Vicki Sue Robinson: Behind The Beat - 1999
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Barbra Streisand The Main Event / Fight (live)
The Main Event is a 1979 comedy starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal, written by Gail Parent and directed by Howard Zieff.
The film received negative reviews from critics, but was one of the among the Top 10 highest grossing films of the year at the box office. It was also the impetus for Barbra Streisand's first foray into disco, singing the Golden Globe-nominated theme song written by Paul Jabara and Bruce Roberts.
In June of 1979, the soundtrack was released on LP, cassette, and eight-track. In October 1993, it was released on CD. The CD is now out of print. The soundtrack seems to play as basically an extended single of "The Main Event/Fight", containing an 11:39 version, an edited and slightly altered version at 4:54, released as the single, and a ballad version titled simply "The Main Event" as it omits the "Fight" parts. A bootleg of the recording sessions for the title song exists with Streisand commenting on the vocal challenges the song contains. A DJ-only promo 12" single was released for "The Main Event/Fight".
1. The Main Event/Fight - Barbra Streisand
2. Body Shop, The - Michalski & Ooversteen
3. The Main Event/Fight (short version) - Barbra Streisand
4. Copeland Meets The Coasters (Get A Job) - Michael Melvoin
5. Big Girls Don't Cry - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
6. It's Your Foot Again - Michael Melvoin
7. Angry Eyes - Loggins & Messina
8. I'd Clean A Fish For You - Michael Melvoin
9. The Main Event (ballad) - Barbra Streisand
Shalamar
Career
Their first hit was the 1975 Motown-inspired production "Uptown Festival," the success of which inspired Griffey to replace his session singers with vocalists Jody Watley, Jeffrey Daniel and Howard Hewett (the latter replacing short-time members Gary Mumford and, later, Gerald Brown) in 1979.The group was joined up with producer Leon Sylvers III in 1979, signed with Griffey's SOLAR Records and scored a US million seller with "The Second Time Around".
In the UK the group had a string of hits with songs such as "Take That To The Bank" (1978), "I Owe You One" (1980) and 1982's "I Can Make You Feel Good", "A Night to Remember", "There It Is" and "Friends". The album of the same title Friends was also a big seller in the UK in 1982 crossing the genres of pop, disco and soul. The band's record sales in the UK increased when Daniel demonstrated his body-popping dancing skills on BBC Television's music programme, Top of the Pops, premiering the Moonwalk on television for the first time. Michael Jackson was a fan of the group, in particular, Daniel and his dance moves, after watching him on Soul Train.[citation needed] Jackson and Daniel met after, and Jackson took his then 12 year old sister Janet to see Shalamar perform at Disneyland. Daniel went on to teach Jackson the Moonwalk and choreographed Jackson's "Bad" and "Smooth Criminal" videos.
The group took a knock when both Watley and Daniel left the band individually due to various conflicts within the group among other separate and increasing issues. Adding to the subsequent departure was Watley's increasing frustration with SOLAR Records and Dick Griffey shortly after the release of their next album, The Look, in 1983. Nonetheless, the album yielded a number of UK hit singles including "Disappearing Act", "Dead Giveaway" and "Over And Over". The album itself moved Shalamar into a more new wave/synthpop direction, with rock guitars to the fore. But The Look generally was not the success that Friends had been the previous year.
With a mid 1980s line-up change with Delisa Davis and Micki Free, Shalamar returned to the US Top 20 in 1984 with "Dancing In The Sheets" from the Footloose soundtrack, peaking at #17, and they won a Grammy for "Don't Get Stopped in Beverly Hills" from Beverly Hills Cop in 1984.
But when Hewett left for a solo career in 1985, and was replaced by Sydney Justin, the band faded into temporary obscurity. The group recorded 1987's Circumstantial Evidence, which was a commercial disappointment, and faded away soon after the release of 1990's Wake Up.
Watley launched her own solo career in 1987, winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist and releasing hit singles including "Looking For a New Love" and "Friends" featuring Eric B & Rakim. She rejoined with Hewett and Daniel, plus LL Cool J, on Babyface's 1996 million-selling single "This Is for the Lover in You"; a cover of a hit single from Shalamar's 1980 album Three for Love. Watley was also one of the few American singers to perform on the original Band Aid record recorded by mostly British singers in November 1984. Micki Free was mentioned on Chappelle's Show, under Charlie Murphy's 'True Hollywood Stories' when playing basketball with Prince.
Shalamar reformed in 2005, for the UK television series, Hit Me, Baby, One More Time, with original members Daniel and Hewett, and with new singer Carolyn Griffey (a long time friend and fan of the original band, and daughter of Shalamar founder and Solar Record boss Dick Griffey). Carolyn's mother is Carrie Lucas for whom Watley sang backing vocals. They reached the grand final of Hit Me, Baby, One More Time on 22 May 2005, ultimately losing out to Shakin' Stevens.
Shalamar scored a total of three gold albums in the US; with Big Fun, Three for Love (which eventually went platinum) and Friends.
Also in 1980, the band made a promotion of "The Second Time Around" for the radio station KJR in Seattle, called "The Sonics Came To Play"; dedicated to the Seattle SuperSonics who had won the NBA Championship, the previous year.
Shalamar was more recently featured in a segment of TV One's series Unsung, in which Watley, Daniel and Hewett shared their stories about the lack of payment and royalties from Solar Records, success, egos, and breakup of the group. During the interview, Daniel revealed that he played a major role in teaching Michael Jackson the Moonwalk dance, and that the dance was originally called the "backslide." In the interview Watley stated that she had moved on in her life and career, when asked about a possible reunion.
In October 2009, Hewett, Daniel and Griffey collectively performed as a part of "The Ultimate Boogie Nights Disco Concert Series at IndigO2 within O2 Arena Entertainment Avenue in London.This prompted their return to the UK in April 2010 for a tour.
 | Take That to the Bank (Remix) / Right in the Socket / There It Is Release Date: 2006 Label: Unidisc More Details >> |
 | Wake Up Release Date: 1990 Label: Solar Rating:  More Details >> |
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Munich Machine - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
Disco project based in Munich, Germany lead by Giorgio Moroder. Other producers involved were Pete Bellotte, Stefan Wissnet, Günther Moll and others.
A Whiter Shade of Pale by Munich Machine (feat. Chris Bennett) was the second album under the Munich Machine project name for Giorgio Moroder. Much less electronic than the first (S/T) of the series, with a much more sensuous female vocal delivery, which will peak in the 3rd LP, "Bodyshine". The title track is a nice cover of the original track.
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Eartha Kitt-Where is my Man
In 1984, Eartha returned to the music charts with a disco song, "Where Is My Man", the first certified gold record of her career. "Where Is My Man" reached the Top 40 on the UK Singles Chart, where it peaked at #36; The song also made the Top 10 on the US Billboard dance chart, where it reached #7. The single was followed by the album I Love Men on the Record Shack label. Kitt found new audiences in nightclubs across the UK and the US, including a whole new generation of gay male fans, and she responded by frequently giving benefit performances in support of HIV/AIDS organizations. Her 1989 follow-up hit "Cha-Cha Heels" (featuring Bronski Beat), which was originally intended to be recorded by Divine, received a positive response from UK dance clubs and reached #32 in the charts in that country.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Carrie Lucas - It's Not What You've Got (It's How You Use It)
Carrie Lucas, is a female R&B musician born in Carmel, California. In 1976 she was signed to Soul Train Records. Lucas made six albums over seven years with Soul Train and Solar Records.
Career
"I Gotta Keep Dancing" and "Gotta Get Away From Your Love" were the two hit singles from Lucas's first album, Simply Carrie, released in 1977. "I Gotta Keep Dancing" peaked at number #64 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1977.
Lucas' second album Street Corner Symphony was released in 1978. It featured The Whispers as backing vocalists. A single from the LP, of the same name was a homage to the 1960s doo-wop groups. The album was released on the record producer Dick Griffey's Solar Records label.
In 1979 Lucas released Carrie Lucas in Danceland. Griffey brought in Jody Watley (Shalamar) for background vocals, Lakeside (co-producers and backgrounds) and Walter and Wallace Scott (The Whispers) for backgrounds. Organist Kossi Gardner (1941–2009) wrote (and played on) the hit "Dance With You", which propelled the album to #37 in the U.S Dance Album chart. 1980's Portrait of Carrie was less commercially successful, although it did spawn three modest hit singles. The first 12" was a reworking of her first hit, re-titled as "Keep Smilin'." This was followed by "It's Not What You Got (It's How You Use It)" and "Career Girl." Griffey shared production duties with Leon Sylvers and Gardner.
Lucas' next release was in 1982 and entitled, Still In Love. It was recorded and released under the banner of Solar Records and distributed by Elektra/Asylum. The album produced two 12" singles, "Men" and the more successful "Show Me Where You're Coming From." Sheila E. co-wrote the album's title track.
Her most recent album was released in 1985. "Horsin' Around" spawned four 12" singles; "Charlie," "Horsin' Around," "Summer In The Street" and "Hello Stranger." Her cover version of Barbara Lewis' "Hello Stranger" reached number 20 on the U.S. R&B chart.
Lucas' last known recording was an appearance on the 1990 soundtrack to Lambada: Set The Night On Fire. She performed the song "I Like the Rhythm." Lucas is now married to Griffey and decided to retire from the music industry and concentrate on married life and her horses. Carrie Lucas is also the mother of Carolyn Griffey.
Unidisc Records in Canada has released a Greatest Hits package that contains most of her 12" mixes in 1999.
Discography
* Simply Carrie (Soul Train 1977)
* Street Corner Symphony (Solar 1978)
* Carrie Lucas In Danceland (Solar 1979)
* Portrait Of Carrie (Solar 1980)
* Still In Love (Solar 1982)
* Horsin' Around (Constellation 1984)
Carrie Lucas also appeared on TV in the disco era: on SOUL TRAIN, HOT CITY, SOAP FACTORY DISCO and AMERICAN BANDSTAND. The archives should reveal her visits and her many talents.
LOVE AND KISSES - THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY [1978]
Love & Kisses was a 1970s disco group assembled by European producer Alec Costandinos, with a variety of male/female singers.
After collaborating on Cerrone's debut album Love In C Minor (1976), Costandinos assembled Love and Kisses in early 1977, and shortly after the group released their first album, which contained just two songs - and so was also classed as a double A-side single. These were "Accidental Lover" and I Found Love (Now That I Have Found You), which combined orchestral sounds, classical influences and a disco arrangement. The single charted at #1 for three weeks on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.
The following year saw the release of their second album entitled How Much, How Much I Love You, (title track covered side one, "Beauty and the Beast" completed side two) utilising the same basic formula. Both songs became top five disco smashes. This was followed closely by the group's biggest hit, "Thank God It's Friday", the title song from the movie. It peaked at #23 R&B, #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #1 for six weeks on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. The soundtrack, which featured Donna Summer's "Last Dance" and the Commodores "Too Hot Ta Trot", was nominated for several Grammy Awards.
Their third and final album, You Must Be Love was released in 1979, but met with less success. Shortly thereafter the group disassembled.
[edit] Discography
Albums
* 1977 Love and Kisses
* 1978 How Much, How Much I Love You
* 1979 You Must Be Love
Triple S Connection- Dance Fever (TV show theme)
Dance Fever is an American musical variety series that aired weekly in syndication from January 1979 to September 1987. The series was created and produced by Merv Griffin and written by Tony Garofalo.
Deney Terrio hosted the series until September 1985, where he was replaced by Adrian Zmed. The show's announcer for the first two years was Freeman King until September 1980 where he was replaced by Charlie O'Donnell.
Format
Each week, four dancing couples competed for a weekly cash prize of $1,000; Each couple performed their dance routine for a total of two minutes and the celebrity judges scored them anywhere between 70 and 100 points. The couple with the highest total score were the winners and advanced into the next round of competition, in the event of a tie, one set of celebrity scores was dropped in an effort to decide a winner; every fifth week was a Semi-Final show where those winning couples from the last four weeks compete for $5,000.
At the end of a 25-week competition, the five semi-final winners all came back to face off in the show's annual Grand Prix Finals for cash and prizes worth over $25,000 which included two brand new cars (one for each member of the winning dance team). In September 1984, the grand prize package was raised to $50,000.
Each week except for the year-end Grand Prix Finals, the show also featured a segment in which some of the top Disco, Pop, or R&B artists of the day would perform their latest hit.
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