Fern Kinney

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Groove me
  US 54 08/18/1979 (8 weeks)
Together We Are Beautiful
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
gold
gold
February 16, 1980 (11 weeks)

Fern Kinney (* before 1965 in Jackson , Mississippi ) is a former American R&B and pop singer .

Life

Kinney began her musical career in the mid-1960s. As a replacement for the singer Patsy McClune, she became a member of the girls' trio The Poppies . With the band she succeeded in 1966 at the height of the girl group wave of the 1960s with the title Lullaby of Love, a hit on the US Billboard charts . Still a member of the band, she recorded her first solo single with Atlantic Records in 1968 , but failed to achieve commercial success.

In the early 1970s she worked in the Malaco and North American recording studios as a studio musician and background singer. Among other things, she was heard on recordings by Jean Knight and Frederick Knight . She supported soul singer King Floyd with his top ten single Groove Me in 1970 and her former bandmate Dorothy Moore with her hit single Misty Blue from 1976.

In the mid-1970s, Kinney retired from the music business and pursued her private life as a housewife. But in 1979 she decided to make a comeback and recorded her own version of King Floyd's Groove Me . She transformed the soul song into a disco number and reached number 6 on the Billboard Club Play Charts. The follow-up single also followed the same pattern: Together We Are Beautiful , originally by Ken Leray from 1977, was accompanied by a slow, pressing disco beat. The single missed the charts in its home country, but surprisingly rose to number 1 on the British hit list for a week in March 1980 .

In the following years Kinney released a few more disco style singles. But the trend had already passed its zenith and Kinney was unable to repeat its success. She went back to her job as a background singer and remained a classic one-hit wonder .

Discography

Albums

  • 1979: Groove Me
  • 1981: Fern
  • 1982: Sweet Music

Compilations

  • 1988: Fern Kinney
  • 1994: Chemistry - The Best of Fern Kinney

Singles

  • 1968: Your Love's Not Reliable
  • 1978: Sweet Life / Tonight's the Night (with Frederick Knight)
  • 1979: Baby Let Me Kiss You
  • 1979: I Want You Back
  • 1979: Groove Me
  • 1979: Together We Are Beautiful
  • 1979: I've Been Lonely for so Long
  • 1981: Let the Good Times Roll
  • 1982: I'm Ready for Your Love / Boogie Box
  • 1983: Beautiful Love Song

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: UK US
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
personal data
SURNAME Kinney, Fern
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American R&B and pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Jackson , Mississippi , United States