The Weather Girls

Weather Girls
General information
Genre (s)	Pop , soul
founding	1980
Website	http://www.the-weathergirls.de/
Founding members
singing	Martha Wash
singing	Izora Armstead
Current occupation
singing	Dynelle Rhodes (Armstead)
singing	Dorrey Lyles

The Weather Girls is the name of an American singing duo whose music can be assigned to the areas of soul and pop and which originally consisted of Martha Wash and Izora Armstead († September 16, 2004 ).

biography

Martha Wash (2008)

Initially, Wash and Armstead called themselves The Two Tons o 'Fun and performed as background singers for Sylvester James . From 1980 some singles appeared under this name , e. B. Earth Can Be Just Like Heaven / Do You Wanna Boogie, Hunh? , which made it to No. 2 on Billboard Dance Music / Club Play Singles in 1980 .

In 1983 The Weather Girls had an international hit with It's Raining Men, which was released the previous year . The single was most successful in England, where it reached number 2 in the charts and was awarded a silver record . In Germany and the USA, the song reached top 50 placements. Despite further publications, The Weather Girls remained commercially unsuccessful for the rest of the 1980s.

In the 1990s, Izora Armstead moved to Braunshardt and performed again with her daughter Dynelle under the name The Weather Girls. In Germany, the duo made it to the charts with 3 long players and 4 singles. The album Double Tons of Fun reached number 79 in 1994, the included new version of the classic It's Raining Men already climbed to number 45 in the single charts last year , the following single Can U Feel It also reached number 75 in 1993 and the third and final release We Shall All Be Free 1994 ranked 80th.

The 1996 album The Sound of Sex was at number 39 in April of that year, the single of the same name reached number 89. With the compilation Puttin 'on the Hits - The Ultimate Hitparty , the duo returned to the German album charts in 1998, this time on 79th place.

Together with the Disco Brothers, The Weather Girls participated in the Countdown Grand Prix 2002 , the German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 . The title Get Up took 13th out of 15 places.

From 2004 to 2011, Izora Rhodes Armstead's daughter Dynelle Rhodes performed with Gainesville , Georgia- born American soul singer Ingrid Arthur, her cousin, as The Weather Girls. In 2005 the album Totally Wild was created , which contains the underground club hit Wild Thang . In 2008, Break You , a feature starring Ralph Falcon, placed twelve on the US dance charts.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	CH	UK	US	R&B
1980	Two Tons o 'Fun	-	-	-	US91 (11 weeks) US	R&B28 (18 weeks) R&B	as Two Tons o 'Fun
1994	Double Tons of Fun	DE79 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-
1996	The sound of sex	DE39 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More albums

• 1980: Backatcha (as Two Tons)
• 1983: Paul Jabara and Friends (Paul Jabara feat. The Weather Girls, Leata Galloway and Whitney Houston )
• 1983: Success
• 1985: Big Girls Don't Cry
• 1988: The Weather Girls
• 1995: Think Big!
• 1999: We Can Stand Together
• 2005: Totally Wild
• 2007: Muscles, Men & More
• 2009: The Woman I Am (12 mp3 files)

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	CH	UK	US	R&B
1998	Puttin 'on the Hits - The Ultimate Hitparty	DE79 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-

More compilations

• 1985: Megatonnage: The Best of Two Tons aka The Weather Girls (Two Tons aka The Weather Girls)
• 1993: Get the Feeling (as Two Tons: Martha Wash & Izora Armstead)
• 1997: It's Raining Men
• 1999: We Can Stand Together
• 2000: great hits
• 2000: Sexy Ghost

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks	[↑]: treated together with the previous entry; [←]: placed in both charts
		DE	CH	UK	US	R&B	Dance
1980	Just Us Two Tons o 'Fun	-	-	-	-	R&B29 (18 weeks) R&B	-	First published: April 1980 as The Two Tons o 'Fun Authors: Eric Robinson, Victor Orsborn
	I Got the Feeling Two Tons o 'Fun	-	-	-	-[R&B: ↑]		-	B-side of Just Us as The Two Tons o 'Fun Authors: Don Miley, Frank Loverde, James Wirrick
	Taking Away Your Space Two Tons o 'Fun	-	-	-	-	R&B53 (7 weeks) R&B	-	First published: August 1980 as The Two Tons o 'Fun Authors: Sylvester , Harvey Fuqua
	Do Ya Wanna Boogie, Huh / I Got the Feeling / One-Sided Love Affair / Earth Can Be Just Like Heaven Two Tons o 'Fun	-	-	-	-	-	Dance2 (30 weeks) Dance	First published: 1980 as The Two Tons o 'Fun
1981	Never Like This Backatcha	-	-	-	-	R&B55 (8 weeks) R&B	-	First published: January 1981 as The Two Tons Authors: Hailey, Eric Robinson
	I Depend on You Backatcha	-	-	-	-	-	Dance72 (8 weeks) Dance	First published: 1981 as The Two Tons Authors: Josh A. Hailey, Tony Flores
1982	It's Raining Men Success	DE43 (7 weeks) DE	CH95 (1 week) CH	UK2 silver (19 weeks)UK	US46 (11 weeks) US	R&B34 (18 weeks) R&B	Dance1 (22 weeks) Dance	First publication: November 1982 including re-entry in the UK: 2001 place 81 (2 weeks), 2014 place 31 (1 week) Authors: Paul Jabara , Paul Shaffer
1984	Success Success	-	-	UK95 (1 week) UK	-	R&B89 (3 weeks) R&B	-	First published: September 1983 Authors: Bob Esty, Paul Jabara
1985	Well-a-Wiggy Big Girls Don't Cry	-	-	-	-	R&B76 (4 weeks) R&B	-	First published: July 1985 Authors: Bob Esty, Paul Jabara
	No One Can Love You More Than Me Big Girls Don't Cry	-	-	-	-	-	Dance26 (8 weeks) Dance	First published: October 1985 Authors: Billy Livsey, Terry Britten
1993	It's raining men	DE45 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	-	First release: August 1993 Chocolate feat. Weather Girls Remix: Jeo (aka Joachim Mezei)
	Can U Feel It Double Tons of Fun	DE75 (11 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	-	First publication: December 1993 Authors: Beate Murray, Heider & Kalif , Izora Armstead
1994	We Shall All Be Free Double Tons of Fun	DE80 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	-	First published: April 1994 Authors: Heider & Kalif, Izora Armstead
1996	The Sound of Sex (Ooh Gitchie O-La-La-Ay) Think Big!	DE89 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	-	First published: March 1996
2008	Break you	-	-	-	-	-	Dance12 (14 weeks) Dance	First release: February 2008 Ralph Falcon feat. The Weather Girls Author: Ralph Falcón

More singles

1980: I Been Down (as Two Tons o 'Fun) 1980: Earth Can Be Just Like Heaven (as Two Tons o 'Fun) 1983: I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair (as Two Tons o 'Fun) 1983: Dear Santa (Bring Me a Man This Christmas) 1984: Land of the Believer 1988: Love You Like a Train 1991: Let's Get Busy 1994: party 1995: Oh, What a Night 1996: Star (feat. Jimmy Somerville )

1998: Don't Look Any Further ( Dennis Edwards feat. The Weather Girls) 1998: I'm so excited 1999: Big Brown Girl 2002: Your Love 2002: Get Up (Disco Brothers feat.Weather Girls) 2004: Wild Thang 2005: Megamix 2005 2009: The Woman I Am: Dance Remixes (4 mp3 files) 2012: It's Raining Men 2K12 (Sebo Reed meets Weather Girls)

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1. ↑ ^{a b} UK gold / platinum database
2. ↑ The Weather Girls on Ingrid Arthurs website ( memento of the original from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: Singles Albums UK US1 US2 US3
4. ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
5. ^ Joel Whitburn : Top R&B Albums 1965–1998, ISBN 0-89820-134-9 .
6. ^ Joel Whitburn : Hot R&B Songs 1942–2010: 6th Edition, ISBN 978-0898201864 .
7. ^ Joel Whitburn : Hot Dance / Disco 1974-2003, ISBN 978-0-89820-156-7 .

Web links

• Official website of the band
• The Weather Girls at Allmusic (English)
• The Weather Girls at Discogs (English)