Thanks to the suggestion of my beloved Bunny over at
Milk Carton Pop Stars, I give you Teen Dream. He did a feature on them there and thought I might like to share their music here for all of you to enjoy. And right he was! These are the first of a few albums I'm posting by artists featured there, thanks to overwhelming request. It's great '80s pop-R&B, fun and definitely danceable, thanks in part to producers like former Prince cohort Brownmark. Lisa, Nikki & Terri formed in Columbus, Ohio, and, after hooking up with producer Chris Powell, they were signed to Warner Bros. Records. They had modest success with their singles - "Let's Get Busy" just missed the top 40 on the Billboard R&B chart, "Slip Slide" just missed the top 20 on the Billboard dance chart, and "Toy" entered the lower regions of the R&B chart as well. But the album generated little heat, and they were dropped from Warner Bros.. Lead singer Terri left the group, but Chris Powell insisted on keeping the group going, recruiting two new girls to replace her and getting them signed to an indie label in Alabama, Muscle Shoals Sound Records. They released their second album two year later and two singles, the title track "Games" and a funky remake of the Anita Ward disco hit "
Ring My Bell". But the label clearly could not promote the girls properly and the hits and group dried up. While the whereabouts of the other girls remain unknown (thanks mostly to the fact that their last names weren't published), Terri Whitlow did create a
Myspace page in 2009 with some samples of new music and was rumoured to be making a solo album. That album has yet to see the light of day, but should you be curious, you could always write Terry on
Twitter and ask her what's up. ;)
Video for
Let's Get Busy
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Let's Get Busy
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| Toy |
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| Shake |
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| Blown Away |
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| Slip-Slide |
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| I Hear Talk |
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| Jealousy |
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| Without You |
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| Puppy Love |
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Games
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Take Your Time
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Sunshine
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Hard To Get
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All My Love
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Ring My Bell (Vocal And Drums)
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Games
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Gimme Your Love
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When You Find A Love
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Keep It Funky
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Ring My Bell
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