Club Nouveau
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| Genre (s) | R&B , pop |
| founding | 1986 |
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| Denzil Foster | |
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Thomas McElroy |
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Samuelle Prater |
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Valerie Watson |
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Jay King |
Club Nouveau is an American Contemporary R & B / Pop - band of the 1980s.
Band history
After the band Timex Social Club broke up , producer Jay King decided to put together a new group in Sacramento , California . Together with Denzil Foster, Thomas McElroy, Samuelle Pratter and Valerie Watson he founded Club Nouveau and the label King Jay Records. The band received a recording contract with the Warner Music Group and released their debut album Life, Love and Pain in 1986 . This included the songs Jealousy (an answer to the Timex social club classic Rumors ), Situation # 9 , Why You Treat Me So Bad, and Heavy on My Mind . They achieved their greatest success with a cover version of the Bill Withers classic Lean on Me from 1972.
The following singles could not build on the success, but found their attention in the US R&B charts. The group won an award for Lean on Me at the 1988 Grammy Awards . In 1995 the last album Everything Is Black was released , after which the group broke up.
Foster and McElroy later became a music producing team and founded En Vogue in 1988 .
reception
The song Why You Treat Me So Bad was used as a sample by Luniz ( I Got Five on It ) as well as by R. Kellys and Puff Daddys Statisfy You in the 1990s .
Discography
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Albums
- 1986: Life, Love and Pain
- 1988: Listen to the Message
- 1989: Under a Nouveau Groove
- 1992: A New Beginning
- 1995: Everything Is Black
Singles
- 1986: Situation # 9
- 1986: Jealousy
- 1986: Lean on Me
- 1987: Why You Treat Me So Bad
- 1987: Heavy on my Mind
- 1988: For the Love of Frances
- 1988: It's a Cold, Cold World!
- 1988: Envious
- 1989: No Friend of Mine
- 1990: Under a Nouveau Groove
- 1990: Momentary Lover
- 1992: Oh Happy Day
- 1992: I Like Your Way
- 1994: Ghetto Swang
- 1995: Let It Go (feat. Thrill Da Playa by 69 Boyz )
- 1996: When Will You Come Back to Me
- 1998: What Kind of Love (Secret Rendezvous)
Compilations
- 1998: The Collection Volume 1
- 2000: Greatest Hits
- 2004: Share Your Love: The Ballad Collection
- 2004: Ballads & Love Songs
Individual evidence
- ^ Club Nouveau at Allmusic (English). Retrieved July 24, 2011.
- ↑ a b Life, Love & Pain at Allmusic (English). Retrieved July 24, 2011.
- ^ Bill Withers Biography . Billwithers.com. S. 8th Paragraph; Last Sentence. Archived from the original on August 29, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 6, 2009.
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US1 US2
- ↑ a b Music Sales Awards: UK US
Web links
- Club Nouveau at Allmusic (English)
- Club Nouveau at Discogs (English)