Tavares (band)

Tavares (also known as The Tavares Brothers ) is a Grammy- winning American soul , disco , and R&B band that enjoyed their greatest success in the 1970s. Between 1973 and 1983 the group achieved a total of 27 hits in the American R&B charts. She's Gone (1974), It Only Takes a Minute (1975), Whodunit (1977) were number one. Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel and More Than a Woman (1976) were other major international hits from Tavares.

Members

The band originally consisted of the five brothers

• Ralph - Ralph Viera Tavares (born December 10, 1942)
• Pooch - Arthur Paul Tavares (November 12, 1943)
• Chubby - Antone Lee Tavares (born June 2, 1945)
• Butch - Feliciano Tavares (born May 18, 1948)
• Tiny - Perry Lee Tavares (born October 23, 1949)

history

Originally the Tavares come from Cape Verde . The brothers first appeared in 1963 under the name Chubby and the Turnpikes . Ten years later, in 1973, they signed a recording deal with Capitol Records and had their first hit with Check It Out . Another brother, John Tavares, left the group after the first album, which was constantly on the charts. 1975 was the most successful year for Tavares, the album In the City reached the top 40 of the US pop charts, the single It Only Takes a Minute reached number ten on the pop and number one on the R&B charts. Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel (1976) was a million seller and their first major international hit (including number four in Great Britain, number 38 in Germany and their only number one in the American disco charts). Remember What I Told You to Forget (1975), Don't Take Away the Music (1976), Whodunit (1977) and The Ghost of Love (1977) were other successful hits of the group, which are increasingly in the disco style of the time Time presented.

So Tavares contributed a hit to one of the most successful albums of all time, the soundtrack to the disco drama Saturday Night Fever . Their version of the Bee Gees song More Than a Woman reached number 32 on the US pop charts and number 7 in the UK and the group received their only Grammy for it .

Later albums were less successful, but continued to hit the R&B charts with top 10 hits like Never Had a Love Like This Before (1978/9), Bad Times (1980) and Deeper in Love (1983). A Penny for Your Thoughts in 1982 was the last top 40 hit in the US pop charts. It was also the first single after moving from Capitol to RCA . Here they only released two albums. After that, Tavares singles appeared from time to time, but the band's heyday was over for good.

In Great Britain, where the band had eight hits by 1978, Ben Liebrand remixes of Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel and It Only Takes a Minute hit the charts in 1986 . In 1992, Take That covered the latter title and thus had their first Top 10 success in the UK. A year later, Capitol's interest reawakened and released the CD The Best of Tavares .

Victor Tavares had already left the group in 1973 after the first record success. He released an unsuccessful solo LP called Victor Tavares for Polydor in 1981 . In 1983 Ralph Tavares left the band and became a court clerk, but began performing again with his brothers in 2014. In the mid-1990s, Perry Lee "Tiny" Tavares temporarily left the group, but has been back since 2009.

In 2014 the group was inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame. Tavares continues as a quartet and still performs live.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		UK	US	R&B
1974	Check It Out	-	US160 (8 weeks) US	R&B20 (13 weeks) R&B	first album at Capitol
	Hard core poetry	-	US121 (23 weeks) US	R&B11 (36 weeks) R&B
1975	In the city	-	US26 (17 weeks) US	R&B8 (15 weeks) R&B
1976	Sky high!	UK22 (13 weeks) UK	US24 (31 weeks) US	R&B20 (29 weeks) R&B
1977	Love Storm	-	US59 (22 weeks) US	R&B15 (18 weeks) R&B
	The best of Tavares	UK39 silver (2 weeks)UK	US72 (10 weeks) US	R&B42 (11 weeks) R&B	Best of album
1978	Future bound	-	US115 (8 weeks) US	R&B55 (5 weeks) R&B
1979	Madam Butterfly	-	US92 (11 weeks) US	R&B13 (16 weeks) R&B
1980	Supercharged	-	US75 (7 weeks) US	R&B20 (11 weeks) R&B
1982	New Directions	-	US137 (11 weeks) US	R&B30 (30 weeks) R&B	first album on RCA
1983	Words and Music	-	-	R&B48 (11 weeks) R&B

More albums

• 1980: Love Uprising (Capitol)
• 1981: Loveline (Capitol)
• 1983: Words and Music (RCA)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	UK	US	R&B
1973	Check It Out, Check It Out	-	-	US35 (12 weeks) US	R&B5 (20 weeks) R&B	Authors: Floyd Butler, Billy Osborne
1974	That's the Sound That Lonely Makes Check It Out	-	-	US70 (7 weeks) US	R&B10 (15 weeks) R&B	Authors: Johnny Bristol , James Dean, John Glover
	Too Late Hard Core Poetry	-	-	US59 (7 weeks) US	R&B10 (13 weeks) R&B	Authors: Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter
	She's gone hard core poetry	-	-	US50 (16 weeks) US	R&B1 (18 weeks) R&B	Original / Authors: Daryl Hall , John Oates
1975	Remember What I Told You to Forget Hard Core Poetry	-	-	US25 (11 weeks) US	R&B4 (16 weeks) R&B	Authors: Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter
	It Only Takes a Minute In the City	-	-	US10 (18 weeks) US	R&B1 (17 weeks) R&B	Authors: Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter No. 2 in the US dance charts
	Free ride in the city	-	-	US52 (6 weeks) US	R&B8 (12 weeks) R&B	Authors: Dan Hartman
1976	The Love I Never Had In the City	-	-	-	R&B11 (15 weeks) R&B	Authors: Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter
	Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel (Part 1) Sky High!	DE38 (2 weeks) DE	UK4th silver (11 weeks)UK	US15th gold (21 weeks)US	R&B3 (19 weeks) R&B	Authors: Freddie Perren , Keni St. Lewis # 1 on the US dance charts
	Don't Take Away the Music Sky High!	-	UK4th silver (10 weeks)UK	US34 (12 weeks) US	R&B14 (14 weeks) R&B	Authors: Freddie Perren, Keni St. Lewis, Christine Yarian No. 3 in the US dance charts
1977	The Mighty Power of Love Sky High!	-	UK25 (6 weeks) UK	-	-	Authors: Freddie Perren, Keni St. Lewis
	Whodunit Love Storm	-	UK5 (10 weeks) UK	US22 (15 weeks) US	R&B1 (17 weeks) R&B	Authors: Freddie Perren, Keni St. Lewis
	One Step Awy Love Storm	-	UK16 (7 weeks) UK	-	-	Authors: Freddie Perren, Keni St. Lewis
	Goodnight My Love Love Storm	-	-	-	R&B14 (11 weeks) R&B	Authors: George Motola , John Marascalco
	More Than a Woman Future Bound	-	UK7 (11 weeks) UK	US32 (21 weeks) US	R&B36 (14 weeks) R&B	Authors: B. Gibb , R. Gibb , M. Gibb from the movie Saturday Night Fever
1978	The Ghost of Love (Part 1) Future Bound	-	UK29 (6 weeks) UK	-	R&B48 (11 weeks) R&B	Author: Keni St. Lewis
	Slow Train to Paradise Future Bound	-	UK62 (3 weeks) UK	-	-	Authors: Dave Callens, Lucy Garber, Ed Villareal
	Timber Future Bound	-	-	-	R&B94 (2 weeks) R&B	Author: Keni St. Lewis
	Never Had a Love Like This Before Madam Butterfly	-	-	-	R&B5 (22 weeks) R&B	Authors: Len Ron Hanks, Zane Gray
1979	Straight from the Heart Madam Butterfly	-	-	-	R&B77 (4 weeks) R&B	Authors: Len Ron Hanks, Zane Gray
	Bad Times Supercharged	-	-	US47 (10 weeks) US	R&B10 (17 weeks) R&B	Author: Gerard McMahon
1980	I Can't Go On Living Without You Supercharged	-	-	-	R&B42 (9 weeks) R&B	Author: Benjamin Wright
	Love Uprising Love Uprising	-	-	-	R&B17 (16 weeks) R&B	Authors: René Moore, Angela Winbush
1981	Loneliness Love Uprising	-	-	-	R&B64 (5 weeks) R&B	Authors: Benjamin Wright, Lloyd Price
	Turn Out the Nightlight Loveline	-	-	-	R&B45 (10 weeks) R&B	Authors: Andrew Woolfolk, Bunny Hull
	Loveline Loveline	-	-	-	R&B47 (9 weeks) R&B	Authors: Kashif Saleem, Paul Laurence
1982	A Penny for Your Thoughts New Directions	-	-	US33 (21 weeks) US	R&B16 (17 weeks) R&B	Author: Kenny Nolan
1983	Got to Find My Way Back to You New Directions	-	-	-	R&B24 (10 weeks) R&B	Authors: Kris Young, Richard Wyatt Jr.
	Deeper in Love Words and Music	-	-	-	R&B10 (14 weeks) R&B	Authors: Dana Meyers, Dominic Leslie, Wardell Potts
	Words and Music Words and Music	-	-	-	R&B29 (12 weeks) R&B	Author: Kenny Nolan
1986	Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel ( Ben Liebrand Remix)	-	UK12 (9 weeks) UK	-	-	Remix of the song from 1976 Authors: Freddie Perren, Keni St. Lewis
	It Only Takes a Minute (Ben Liebrand Remix)	-	UK12 (9 weeks) UK	-	-	Remix of the song by 1975 Authors: Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter

literature

• Stambler, Irwin: The Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock And Soul . 3rd Revised Edition, New York City, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989, pp. 666-668. ISBN 0-312-02573-4

Web links

• Official website of Tavares
• Tavares at Allmusic (English)
• Tavares at soultracks.com (English)
• Tavares at soulwalking.co.uk (English)
• Tavares Top Songs on Music VF
• Tavares at Discogs
• Tavares in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joel Whitburn: Top R&B Singles 1942-1995, 1996 ISBN 0-89820-115-2
2. ^ Joel Whitburn: Hot Dance / Disco 1974-2003, 2004, ISBN 0-89820-156-X
3. ↑ Victor Tavares. Retrieved December 3, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Kevin Armstrong: Aaron Hernandez court officer, Ralph Tavares, is a Grammy-winning former member of R&B group Tavares. Retrieved December 3, 2019 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE UK US
6. ↑ US albums: Joel Whitburn : Joel Whitburn presents the Billboard Albums . 6th edition. Billboard Books, New York 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 . / US R&B albums: Joel Whitburn : Joel Whitburn's Top R&B Albums 1965–1998 . Billboard Books, New York 1999, ISBN 0-89820-134-9 .
7. ↑ ^{a b} gold / platinum databases: UK (search, BPI) / US (RIAA)
8. ↑ US singles: Joel Whitburn : Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2006 . Billboard Books, New York 2007, ISBN 0-89820-172-1 . / US R&B singles: Joel Whitburn : Joel Whitburn presents Hot R&B Songs 1942-2010 . Billboard Books, New York 2011, ISBN 0-89820-186-1 .