Stacy Lattisaw

Stacy Lattisaw Jackson (* 25. November 1966 in Washington, DC ) is an American Pop - R & B - Soul - and disco - singer . Her biggest hit is the song Jump to the Beat from 1980.

biography

Lattisaw sang in a duet with her mother Sandra at the age of five . In high school , she was a member of a group where Marvin Gaye played the piano . At the age of eleven, she became a professional singer and performed at fashion shows . Lattisaw gained further notoriety through an appearance in the opening act of Ramsey Lewis , in which she performed five songs. At the age of twelve she recorded her first LP , which was produced by Van McCoy . The album Young and in Love was released in 1979 on Cotillion Records. The disc version of the song When You're Young and in Love contained on it , of which the record also contains a ballad version, was a huge success and reached number 91 on the Billboard R&B Singles .

The international breakthrough came in 1980 when the single Jump to the Beat / Dynamite climbed # 1 in the Dance Music / Club Play Singles. In the British charts the song Jump to the Beat rose to number 3, in Germany it remained the only chart success at number 38. Let Me Be Your Angel , the second single from the album of the same name, placed 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 . The track Dynamite , which previously reached number 8 on the US R&B charts, was the third release at number 51 in the UK. At number 44 on the Billboard 200 , Let Me Be Your Angel became Lattisaw's most successful album.

By 1985, other albums produced by Narada Michael Walden appeared on Cotillion, including Perfect Combination , a collection of duets with Johnny Gill , who became known as a member of New Edition . Four singles made it to the bottom of the US singles charts between 1981 and 1984. In 1986 Lattisaw moved to Motown , where three more albums were released by 1989. Only the singles Nail It to the Wall and Jump into My Life reached chart positions in England and the United States, respectively. Her last hit, Where Do We Go from Here , a duet with Johnny Gill, was number one on the R&B charts in 1990, but missed the jump into the pop hit lists.

Due to declining success, Lattisaw ended her singing career in the early 1990s and retired into private life to take care of the family. It has only appeared occasionally since then.

In 2010 Lattisaw was the subject of the documentary series Unsung on the Afro-American TV channel TV One. The series is dedicated to R&B stars who received less attention than others. A year later she published her autobiography I Am Not the Same Girl: Renewed .

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
year	title	DE	UK	US	R&B	Remarks
1980	Let Me Be Your Angel Cotillion	-	-	US44 (28 weeks) US	R&B9 (35 weeks) R&B	First published: June 21, 1980 Producer: Bunny Hull, Narada Michael Walden
1981	With you cotillion	-	-	US46 (15 weeks) US	R&B8 (18 weeks) R&B	First published: April 2nd, 1981 Producer: Narada Michael Walden
1982	Sneakin 'out cotillion	-	-	US55 (16 weeks) US	R&B11 (23 weeks) R&B	First published: February 1, 1982 Producer: Narada Michael Walden Percussion : Sheila E.
1983	Sixteen Cotillion	-	-	US160 (8 weeks) US	R&B26 (16 weeks) R&B	First published: October 15, 1983 Producer: Narada Michael Walden
1984	Perfect Combination Cotillion	-	-	US139 (8 weeks) US	R&B27 (25 weeks) R&B	First published: February 12, 1984 with Johnny Gill Producer: Narada Michael Walden Recording: The Automatt, San Francisco
1987	Take Me All the Way Motown	-	-	US131 (22 weeks) US	R&B36 (26 weeks) R&B	First published: September 1986 Producers: Steve Barri, Tony Peluso
1988	Personal attention Motown	-	-	US153 (10 weeks) US	R&B24 (28 weeks) R&B	First published: February 1988 Producers: Brownmark, Ron Kersey, Vincent Brantley, Lou Pace, Aaron Zigman , Jerry Knight
1989	What You Need Motown	-	-	-	R&B16 (30 weeks) R&B	First published: October 17, 1989 Executive Producer : Timmy Regisford

More albums

1979: Young and in Love (Cotillion; release: August 2nd)
1985: I'm Not the Same Girl (Cotillion)
1998: The Very Best of Stacy Lattisaw (compilation; Rhino )

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	Title album	DE	UK	US	R&B	Dance	Remarks
1979	When You're Young and in Love Young and in Love	-	-	-	R&B91 (4 weeks) R&B	-	First published: May 1979 Author: Van McCoy
1980	Dynamite! Let Me Be Your Angel	-	UK51 (3 weeks) UK	-	R&B8 (20 weeks) R&B	Dance1 (20 weeks) Dance	First published: May 1980 Authors: Bunny Hull, Narada Michael Walden
	Jump to the Beat Let Me Be Your Angel	DE38 (15 weeks) DE	UK3 (11 weeks) UK	-	-[Dance: ↑]	Dance1 (20 weeks) Dance	First published: June 1980 Authors: Lisa Walden, Narada Michael Walden
	Let Me Be Your Angel Let Me Be Your Angel	-	-	US21 (24 weeks) US	R&B8 (20 weeks) R&B	-	First published: July 1980 Authors: Bunny Hull, Narada Michael Walden
1981	Love on a Two Way Street With You	-	-	US26 (17 weeks) US	R&B2 (18 weeks) R&B	-	First published: June 1981 Authors: Bert Keyes, Sylvia Robinson Original: Lezli Valentine, 1968
	It Was So Easy With You	-	-	-	R&B61 (5 weeks) R&B	-	First published: September 1981 Authors: Bobby Thomas , Julie Reeder, Robert Reeder
	Feel My Love Tonight With You	-	-	-	R&B71 (4 weeks) R&B	Dance36 (8 weeks) Dance	First published: October 1981 Authors: Allee Willis, Andre Knox, Charles Chapman, Narada Michael Walden, Wayne Wallace, Frank Martin, Randy Jackson
	Spotlight With You	-	-	-	-[Dance: ↑]	Dance36 (8 weeks) Dance	Placed in the dance charts as an album track Authors: Alan Glass, Preston Glass
1982	Don't Throw It All Away, Sneakin 'Out	-	-	-	R&B9 (16 weeks) R&B	-	First published: July 9, 1982 Authors: David Richard Mindel, Gary Benson
	Attack of the Name Game Sneakin 'Out	-	-	US70 (6 weeks) US	R&B14 (30 weeks) R&B	-	First published: October 1982 Authors: Jeffrey Cohen, Narada Michael Walden
	Hey there lonely boy sneakin 'out	-	-	-	R&B71 (8 weeks) R&B	-	First published: December 1982 Authors: Earl Shuman, Leon Carr
1983	Miracles Sixteen	-	-	US40 (16 weeks) US	R&B13 (17 weeks) R&B	-	First published: August 1983 Authors: Frank Wildhorn , Gary Benson
1983	Million Dollar Babe Sixteen	-	-	-	R&B52 (12 weeks) R&B	-	First published: October 1983 Authors: Carla Vaughn, Preston Glass
1984	Perfect Combination Perfect Combination	-	-	US75 (9 weeks) US	R&B10 (15 weeks) R&B	-	First published: February 1984 with Johnny Gill Authors: Preston Glass, Narada Michael Walden
	Baby It's You Perfect Combination	-	-	-	R&B37 (10 weeks) R&B	-	First published: May 1984 with Johnny Gill Authors: Barney Williams, Burt Bacharach , Mack David
	Block Party Perfect Combination	-	-	-	R&B63 (7 weeks) R&B	Dance48 (5 weeks) Dance	First published: July 1984 with Johnny Gill Authors: Narada Michael Walden, Preston Glass
1985	I'm Not the Same Girl I'm Not the Same Girl	-	-	-	R&B52 (9 weeks) R&B	-	First publication: July 1985 Authors: Michael Masser , Randy Goodrum
1986	Nail It to the Wall Take Me All the Way	-	UK76 (2 weeks) UK	US48 (13 weeks) US	R&B4 (18 weeks) R&B	Dance2 (12 weeks) Dance	First published: September 1986 Authors: Arnie Roman, Stephen Broughton Lunt
1987	Jump into My Life Take Me All the Way	-	UK79 (2 weeks) UK	-	R&B13 (12 weeks) R&B	Dance3 (10 weeks) Dance	First publication: January 1987 Authors: Kashif, Paul Gurvitz
1988	Every Drop of Your Love Personal Attention	-	-	-	R&B8 (16 weeks) R&B	-	First published: November 1987 Authors: Alex Brown, Ron Kersey
	Let Me Take You Down Personal Attention	-	-	-	R&B11 (14 weeks) R&B	-	First published: April 1988 Authors: Lou Pace, The Blitze
	Call Me Personal Attention	-	-	-	R&B80 (5 weeks) R&B	-	First published: October 1988 Rap: Reginald White Authors: Lou Pace, The Blitze
1989	What You Need What You Need	-	-	-	R&B30 (13 weeks) R&B	-	First published: September 1989 Authors: Gordon Williams, Niki Richards
1989	Where Do We Go from Here What You Need	-	-	-	R&B1 (18 weeks) R&B	-	First published: December 1989 with Johnny Gill Authors: Alex Brown, Ron Kersey

More singles

1981: Baby I Love You
1981: Screamin 'Off the Top
1982: Sneakin 'Out
1982: Tonight I'm Gonna Make You Mine
1983: 16
1985: He's Just Not You
1989: Dance for You
1990: I Don't Have the Heart

literature

Frank Laufenberg: Frank Laufenberg's Rock and Pop Lexicon Vol. 1 , ISBN 3-612-26206-8 .

Individual evidence

↑ Stacy Lattisaw, Stacy Lattisaw Jackson: I Am Not the Same Girl: Renewed . Believers Building Bridges, 2011, ISBN 978-0-615-40774-6 ( google.de [accessed March 12, 2020]).
↑ ^a ^b Chart sources: DE UK US
^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
^ Joel Whitburn : Top R&B Albums 1965–1998, ISBN 0-89820-134-9 .
^ Joel Whitburn : Hot R&B Songs 1942–2010: 6th Edition, ISBN 978-0-89820-186-4 .
^ Joel Whitburn : Hot Dance / Disco 1974-2003, ISBN 978-0-89820-156-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Lattisaw, Stacy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lattisaw Jackson, Stacy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American pop, R&B, soul and disco singer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 25, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Washington, DC

[1] Stacy Lattisaw, Stacy Lattisaw Jackson: I Am Not the Same Girl: Renewed . Believers Building Bridges, 2011, ISBN 978-0-615-40774-6 ( google.de [accessed March 12, 2020]).

[charts-2] Chart sources: DE UK US

[Billboard-3] The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .

[4] Joel Whitburn : Top R&B Albums 1965–1998, ISBN 0-89820-134-9 .

[5] Joel Whitburn : Hot R&B Songs 1942–2010: 6th Edition, ISBN 978-0-89820-186-4 .

[6] Joel Whitburn : Hot Dance / Disco 1974-2003, ISBN 978-0-89820-156-7 .