Patty Smyth

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Patty Smyth (2011)
Patty Smyth at the Tribeca Film Festival (2008)

Patty Smyth (born June 26, 1957 in New York City ) was the singer and front woman of the group Scandal in the 1980s . She left the band in 1984 and began a solo career.

Life

Patty Smyth grew up in Queens , Brooklyn and Manhattan . At 15 she made her first appearance in a local music club. In her mother's club she rehearsed with her first, unnamed band until she later founded Patty and the Planets . She kept her head above water with part-time jobs.

In 1982 she joined Scandal and released the self-titled EP and album The Warrior (1984) with the band .

After David Lee Roth left , she was offered the singing post at Van Halen , but she turned it down.

In 1985 Smyth married the punk musician Richard Hell , their daughter Ruby was born in the same year. The marriage was short-lived. The couple divorced when their first solo album Never Enough was released.

She made her breakthrough with her second album Patty Smyth (1992). Her best-known piece Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough was created as a duet with Don Henley . The song was at number 2 on the Billboard charts for two weeks in October 1992 and was nominated for a Grammy in February 1993 . The single and the album achieved gold status in the United States . Already in 1984 and 1989 she had sung in the background on albums of the former Eagles drummer and guitarist.

In 1994 she wrote the song Look What Love Has Done with James Ingram , James Newton Howard and Carole Bayer Sager for the soundtrack of the film Junior . This song was nominated for both a Golden Globe and an Oscar , but went empty at both awards.

In 1997 she married tennis player John McEnroe in Hawaii , with whom she has two children. In 1998, Smyth participated in the soundtrack for the film Armageddon .

As part of a specials on VH1 , it came in 2001 to a reunion of Scandal. Since then the band has been playing live again sporadically.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1982 Scandal (EP) - - - - US39 (32 weeks)
US
First published: 1982
with Scandal
1984 Warrior - - - - US17 (41 weeks)
US
First published: August 1984
with Scandal
1987 Never enough - - - - US66 (20 weeks)
US
First published: 1987
1992 Patty Smyth DE88 (5 weeks)
DE 		- - - US47 (34 weeks)
US
First published: August 1992

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

more publishments

  • 1992: Scandalous
  • 1998: Greatest Hits
  • 2006: We are the '80s
  • 2015: Come on December

Singles (chart successes)

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1982 Goodbye to You
Scandal 		- - - - US65 (11 weeks)
US
First published: November 1982
with Scandal
1983 Love's Got a Line on You
Scandal 		- - - - US59 (13 weeks)
US
First published: March 1983
with Scandal
1984 The Warrior
Warrior 		- - - UK86 (2 weeks)
UK 		US7 (21 weeks)
US
First published: June 1984
with Scandal
Hands tied
warrior 		- - - - US41 (13 weeks)
US
First published: October 1984
with Scandal
1985 Beat of a Heart
Warrior 		- - - - US41 (14 weeks)
US
First published: January 1985
with Scandal
1987 Never Enough
Never Enough 		- - - - US61 (11 weeks)
US
First published: February 1987
Downtown Train
Never Enough 		- - - - US95 (2 weeks)
US
First published: June 1987
1992 Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough
Patty Smyth 		DE51 (14 weeks)
DE 		AT28 (2 weeks)
AT 		- UK22 (6 weeks)
UK 		US2 (24 weeks)
US
First release: August 1992
feat. Don Henley
No Mistakes
Patty Smyth 		- - - - US33 (16 weeks)
US
First published: December 1992
1993 I Should Be Laughing
Patty Smyth 		- - - - US86 (4 weeks)
US
First published: June 1993

Web links

Commons : Patty Smyth  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Patty Smyth Is Happy to Have Turned Down Van Halen Job. Retrieved August 21, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Chart history - Patty Smyth. billboard.com, accessed November 11, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Rockonthenet.com
  4. ↑ Gold for Patty Smyth with the album PATTY SMYTH. In: riaa. Retrieved August 21, 2018 (American English).
  5. ↑ IMDB entry by Junio r
  6. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT UK US
personal data
SURNAME Smyth, Patty
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , United States