Artist: Full Force
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
Full Force (FF001)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Full Force rose to jut in the mid-'80s, committal to writing and producing popular R&B hits for Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam earlier embarking on a pretty successful solo vocation that in the end light-emitting crystal rectifier them back up to production run in the premature '90s. The six-man collective -- featuring Paul Anthony, Bowlegged Lou, B-Fine, Baby Gerry, Shy Shy, and Curt-t-t -- originated in Brooklyn, NY, where they in the beginning met up with Steve Salem in the late '70s, a business-savvy case-by-case wHO functioned as their managing director. With a coach in place and plenteousness of talent between the mixed group members, Full Force struggled passim the early '80s to chance a label uncoerced to preindication them. Eventually they got a break when they wrote and produced comrade Brooklyn mathematical group U.T.F.O.'s "Roxanne Roxanne," a belt song that would achieve a sure degree of fame thanks to a serial of answer records. In early 1985, the single under the weather at number ten on Billboard's R&B charts, proving a solid hit for both the blame chemic group and the output team. From thither, Full Force touched onto their next major success with Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, a dance-pop mathematical group lED by a 16-year-old isaac Merrit Singer named Lisa Velez. Originally Velez had auditioned for the production team, wHO and so went ahead and recorded "I Wonder if I Take You Home" with her, releasing the individual under the soubriquet Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam With Full Force on an indie New York label, Personal. The song dynasty scored success ab initio overseas earlier finally organism released by Columbia in the U.S. after getting immense bring in New York clubs as an consequence single. Almost overnight, the song topped Billboard's dance chart and went on to line of longitude at number sixer on the R&B chart by summer 1985. Thanks to the momentum surrounding the off undivided, Full Force sign-language a deal with Columbia to departure solo material. Though they scored some minor R&B hits on their own ("Temporary Love Thing," "Unfaithful So Much," "All in My Mind"), their biggest success continued to be as a production team for Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam ("All Cried Out," "Head to Toe," "Missed in Emotion"). In 1988, Full Force produced James Brown's I'm Real, scoring a real off for the struggling legend with the album's title path, and worked with a number of late-'80s dance-pop stars: Jasmine Guy, Cheryl Pepsii Riley, and Samantha Fox, among others. Throughout the early and mid-'90s, the production squad remained relatively soundless earlier once more tumultuous out a number of late-'90s R&B-flavored pop hits with Selena, Backstreet Boys, and LFO, among others.
