'No Sleep Till Brooklyn' was a hit single for which group in 1987?
"Morris Minor and the Majors Morris Minor and the Majors was a British band, created by the British comedians and writers Tony Hawks and Paul Boross. The group became famous with their 1987 song ""Stutter Rap"", an original song in the style of the then-popular rap song ""No Sleep till Brooklyn"" by the Beastie Boys. The stage names of the group were ""Morris Minor"", ""Rusty Wing"" and ""Phil Errup"" (real names Tony Hawks, Paul Boross and Phil Judge). The song reached No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart, No. 14 in Canada and was a No. 2 hit in Australia."
"Hockinson. Contrera was invited to California for a special project shortly thereafter; he declined, but sent Esposito. Sudano and Hockinson followed, and the three formed the group Brooklyn Dreams. Three new members came in- John Tarangelo (Johnny T), Joey Napoli, and Emil Stucchio. Stucchio is the original lead singer of The Classics, famous in their own right with their hit record ""Till Then"". The Classics and Mystics were acquainted, as they both came from Brooklyn. By the early 1980s, the group was Phil Cracolici, Albee Cracolici, Al Contrera, and Johnny T. In 1982, Bob Ferrante was in town when the"
"1987, alongside Catbutt and Girl Trouble. A month prior to their second show at the venue, the band recorded a demo tape which consisted of six songs, five of which were originals and one was a cover of Sonny Bono and Cher's ""I Got You Babe."" Another two of the band's shows were significant as they headlined Sub Pop Sunday at Seattle's Vogue Theatre and a June 5, 1988 show saw the band come close to perform with iconic grunge band Nirvana, who decided not to perform due to the sparse attendance. During their original run, Doll Squad also performed"
"the Band, and the Who. ""With or Without You"" was released as the lead single on 21 March 1987, with the B-sides ""Luminous Times (Hold on to Love)"" and ""Walk to the Water"". The single quickly topped the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, becoming the band's first number-one hit in America. The song topped the singles chart in Canada, while reaching number four in the UK and number two in the Netherlands. The group originally planned to use ""Red Hill Mining Town"" as the second single. However, the group were unhappy with the music video filmed by Neil Jordan, and Bono had"
"Brooklyn Dreams (group) The Brooklyn Dreams were a successful singing group of the late 1970s and early 1980s mixing R&B harmonies with contemporary dance/disco music and best known for a number of collaborations with singer Donna Summer. The band consisted of Joe ""Bean"" Esposito, Eddie Hokenson and Bruce Sudano. Esposito provided lead vocals for the band and played guitar, while Sudano played keyboards and Hokenson played drums and occasionally sang lead vocals. Their biggest hit was the single ""Heaven Knows"", a single by Donna Summer featuring Joe Esposito on second lead and the group singing backup. Released on the Casablanca"
"six songs in 1987 that to this day remain unreleased. The Soho Vultures songs recorded were ""Head Over Heels"", ""Can't Get To Sleep"", ""The Leather"", ""The Loneliness And Your Dark Eyes"", ""Happy"", ""Too Late"" and ""London Town"". ""Too Late"" featured Nasty Suicide on lead vocals while the other songs featured Berg's vocals. ""The Leather"", ""The Loneliness And Your Dark Eyes"", ""Happy"", and ""Too Late"" were to be rerecorded for the band's debut single on Ammunition Records that never came to be. ""Head Over Heels"", ""Can't Get To Sleep"", and ""The Leather, The Loneliness And Your Dark Eyes"", were all recorded"
"'Til Tuesday 'Til Tuesday (often written as ’til tuesday) was an American new wave and alternative rock band formed in Boston, Massachusetts. The band, consisting of Aimee Mann (lead vocals, bass), Robert Holmes (guitar), Joey Pesce (keyboards), and Michael Hausman (drums), was active from 1982 to 1989. They are best known for their 1985 hit single ""Voices Carry"". 'Til Tuesday first gained fame six months after its formation when it won Boston's WBCN Rock & Roll Rumble in 1983. Their original composition ""Love in a Vacuum"" (credited to all members of the group) received a fair amount of airplay on"
"The Bangles The Bangles are an American pop rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1981. They scored several hit singles during the 1980s. The band's hits include ""Walk Like an Egyptian"", ""Billboard"" magazine's number-one single of 1987; two number-two hits, ""Manic Monday"" and ""A Hazy Shade of Winter""; and their 1989 number-one single ""Eternal Flame"". Their classic line-up consisted of Michael Steele on bass and vocals, founding members Susanna Hoffs on vocals and rhythm guitar, Debbi Peterson on drums and vocals, and Vicki Peterson on lead guitar and vocals. The band currently consists of Hoffs, Debbi Peterson and Vicki"
"Dominatrix (band) Dominatrix was a synthpop band from New York City, best remembered for their 1984 club hit, ""The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight"". Although the group was short lived, their lone hit single was highly influential in the freestyle genre. Producer/songwriter Stuart Argabright (formerly of Ike Yard) formed Dominatrix with vocalist Claudia Summers, Ivan Ivan (AKA Ivan Baker), Ken Lockie and keyboardist Peter Baumann. When Claudia Summers parted ways with the group, musician and actress Dominique Davalos took her place. The band's only single was the controversial ""The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight,"" released in 1984. The track became a pioneering force in"
"The Tokens The Tokens are an American male doo-wop-style vocal group and record production company group from Brooklyn, New York. They are known best for their chart-topping 1961 single, ""The Lion Sleeps Tonight"" The group was formed in 1955 at Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School, and was known first as The Linc-Tones. Originally featuring members Neil Sedaka, Hank Medress, Eddie Rabkin, and Cynthia Zolotin, Rabkin was replaced by Jay Siegel in 1956, and the band recorded its first single, ""While I Dream"" that same year. In 1957 Sedaka and Zolotin left the band, leaving only Siegel and Medress, who would"
"Elbow Bones and the Racketeers Elbow Bones and the Racketeers was an American big band-era styled male/female vocal group, created by August Darnell, and best known for their hit single ""A Night in New York"", written by Ron Rogers and Deborah Clarkin, and released on the EMI label. It entered the UK Singles Chart on 14 January 1984. It remained in there for nine weeks, reaching #33. Elbow Bones was the alter ego of writer/photographer John Rynski, who had become friendly with Darnell after working as his stage and lighting man on the Kid Creole and the Coconuts tours. Rynski"
"at all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums in the United States and Canada. Original Tokens The Tokens The Tokens are an American male doo-wop-style vocal group and record production company group from Brooklyn, New York. They are known best for their chart-topping 1961 single, ""The Lion Sleeps Tonight"" The group was formed in 1955 at Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School, and was known first as The Linc-Tones. Originally featuring members Neil Sedaka, Hank Medress, Eddie Rabkin, and Cynthia Zolotin, Rabkin was replaced by Jay Siegel in 1956, and the band recorded its first single, ""While I Dream"" that same year."
"and at #9 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1984. The group then did some promotion for the song, performing on the syndicated television program ""Soul Train"" in the midst of the success of the song. The ""Breakin<nowiki>'</nowiki>"" soundtrack went on to peak at #8 on the US ""Billboard"" 200 albums chart. The following year, the duo released the single ""Electric Boogaloo"", the title theme to the ""Breakin<nowiki>'</nowiki>"" sequel """". The single did fairly well on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #57 on the chart. However, the song failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100; it did, however,"
"Raw Silk Raw Silk was an American dance band, originated in New York. Raw Silk is best known for their garage-boogie song ""Do It to the Music"" (1982). The group consists of two Crown Heights Affair members, Ron Dean Miller and Bert Reid, and three female vocalists Jessica Cleaves, Sybil Thomas, Tenita Jordan. Their production was somewhat successful, ""Do It to the Music"" reached number 5 on ""Billboard"" Hot Dance Club Songs charts, ""Just in Time"" (1983) peaked lower, at number 40 on the same chart. The single was more successful in the United Kingdom, though. First Raw Silk signed"
"The Honeymoon Killers (American band) The Honeymoon Killers were an American noise rock band from New York City, formed in 1983. Their name is taken from the 1970 crime film ""The Honeymoon Killers"". The Honeymoon Killers' sound is deeply rooted in the blues earning them comparisons to The Cramps, whose music was highly influential to Teel. The nucleus of the band was Jerry Teel and Lisa Wells, with Sally Edroso serving as the longest standing drummer between 1985 and 1990. The group's rotating line-ups would consist of members belonging to like-minded bands such as Pussy Galore, Boss Hog, Ritual Tension"
"rock band. In 2012, she joined the three piece rock band SuperEtte with local Austin musicians Susie Martinez and Matthew Phebus. They recorded their first EP, titled ""Your's Till The End,"" in March, 2014. The song was featured in the 1986 film ""Parting Glances"", the 1997 film ""Grosse Pointe Blank"" and the 2010 film """". Dominatrix (band) Dominatrix was a synthpop band from New York City, best remembered for their 1984 club hit, ""The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight"". Although the group was short lived, their lone hit single was highly influential in the freestyle genre. Producer/songwriter Stuart Argabright (formerly of Ike"
"late 1983, the group had their most successful single, ""Fo-Fi-Fo"", which peaked at No. 13 on the US soul chart. The single “What Can I Do,” from the album ""‘Bout Dat Time"", with Norwood on the lead vocals, peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard Hot R&B Singles chart in February 1990. Tracy Hamlin, was the group's lead vocalist from 2002 to 2005 and sings on two of their albums, ""Love Silhouette"" and ""No Assembly Required"". Pieces of a Dream (band) Pieces of a Dream is an American R&B and jazz fusion group. The group was formed in Philadelphia during"
"from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. In December 2014, he was reported to be an associate in the labor and employment group of Philadelphia law firm Ballard Spahr. Studio Albums: EPs/Demos Studio Albums: EPs/Demos: EPs/Demos: Rogers Stevens Thomas Rogers Stevens (born 31 October 1970) is a guitarist from Blind Melon, a rock band which began in the 1990s and is most famous for their hit song ""No Rain"". He has also been a member of the bands Extra Virgin and The Tender Trio, and is an attorney. Rogers Stevens was born in West Point, Mississippi, United States, where"
"""Rainy Day Soul"", twenty-three years later, in 2004. Sudano was voted AC artist of the year by ""New Music Weekly"". Sudano's next CD, ""Life & the Romantic"", was set to be released in March, 2009. Brooklyn Dreams (group) The Brooklyn Dreams were a successful singing group of the late 1970s and early 1980s mixing R&B harmonies with contemporary dance/disco music and best known for a number of collaborations with singer Donna Summer. The band consisted of Joe ""Bean"" Esposito, Eddie Hokenson and Bruce Sudano. Esposito provided lead vocals for the band and played guitar, while Sudano played keyboards and Hokenson"
"tracking some eight songs for the album since last December at his studio in Silver Lake, but added that there is currently no date set for release. Blind Melon Blind Melon (stylized as BLind MeLoN) is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California by two musicians from Mississippi and one from Indiana. They are best known for their 1993 hit ""No Rain,"" and enjoyed critical and commercial success in the early 1990s with their neo-psychedelic take on alternative rock. After releasing two albums on Capitol Records and touring extensively, the band came to an abrupt halt in 1995"
"summer of that year. When ""Chicago 17"" was released in 1984, it became the veteran band's most successful selling album in their history, eventually going on to sell over six million copies in the United States alone. All four singles released from the album were sung by Cetera, including three which he co-wrote, and all of them charted in the top twenty: ""Stay the Night"" (number sixteen), ""Hard Habit to Break"" (number three), ""You're the Inspiration"" (number three) and ""Along Comes a Woman"" (number fourteen). With the advent of the music video and the growing popularity of MTV, Cetera became"
"which reached no. 28 on the R&B chart. Their final album, ""Picture This"", was released in 1987. Billy Valentine also performed in the 1980s on the soundtracks of the films ""Champions Forever"" and ""The Five Heartbeats"", before joining the show ""It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues"" in Los Angeles in the late 1990s. He has also worked as a demo recording artist and songwriter, and as a singer in Los Angeles clubs. Since 2004 he has sung on the soundtrack of the hit TV series ""Boston Legal"". The Valentine Brothers The Valentine Brothers were an American recording act in the"
"from 1940s to Today"" by Jay Warner. The Danleers The Danleers was an American doo-wop group formed in Brooklyn, New York in 1958. The group's original and most famous lineup consisted of Jimmy Weston, Johnny Lee, Willie Ephraim, Nat McCune, and Roosevelt Mays. One of many streetcorner vocal groups in Brooklyn, they rose to prominence in 1958 on the strength of the single ""One Summer Night"", written by their manager, Danny Webb, who also named the group. The single was one of the biggest hits of that year and sold over one million copies. Further releases were not so successful"
"Blind Melon Blind Melon (stylized as BLind MeLoN) is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California by two musicians from Mississippi and one from Indiana. They are best known for their 1993 hit ""No Rain,"" and enjoyed critical and commercial success in the early 1990s with their neo-psychedelic take on alternative rock. After releasing two albums on Capitol Records and touring extensively, the band came to an abrupt halt in 1995 by the fatal overdose of lead vocalist Shannon Hoon on the band's tour bus in New Orleans, going on hiatus until officially disbanding four years later. In"
"disappointment after the across-the-board success of ""Whitesnake"""". Aerosmith's comeback album ""Permanent Vacation"" (1987) would begin a decade long revival of their popularity. ""Crazy Nights"" (1987) by Kiss was the band's highest charting release in the US since 1979 and the highest of their career in the UK. Mötley Crüe with ""Girls, Girls, Girls"" (1987) continued their commercial success and Def Leppard with ""Hysteria"" (1987) hit their commercial peak, the latter producing seven hit singles (a record for a hard rock act). Guns N' Roses released the best-selling début of all time, ""Appetite for Destruction"" (1987). With a ""grittier"" and ""rawer"""
"to West End Records, which was once a popular garage label, where they recorded moderate hits ""Do It to the Music"" and ""Just in Time"". Their songs were remixed by post-disco/R&B production duo Nick Martinelli and David Todd. Raw Silk Raw Silk was an American dance band, originated in New York. Raw Silk is best known for their garage-boogie song ""Do It to the Music"" (1982). The group consists of two Crown Heights Affair members, Ron Dean Miller and Bert Reid, and three female vocalists Jessica Cleaves, Sybil Thomas, Tenita Jordan. Their production was somewhat successful, ""Do It to the"
"Silk (group) Silk is an American R&B group, formed in 1989 in Atlanta, Georgia. They are best known for their 1993 hit single, ""Freak Me"", which reached number-one on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100. Silk is best known for their hit singles, ""Freak Me"", and ""Happy Days"" from their debut album, ""Lose Control"". Another hit from ""Lose Control"", ""Girl U For Me"", helped the album reach double platinum status. They later had success with singles such as ""I Can Go Deep"", ""Hooked on You"", ""Don't Rush"", ""If You"" (released February 23, 1999) ""Meeting in My Bedroom"", and ""We're Calling You."""
"1983. A proposed series of United States performances supporting REO Speedwagon, Tom Petty and Hall & Oates fell through when Elektra was substantially reorganised. In November 1982 another single, ""Winners"", peaked at No. 12 in Australia. In October 1983 their second album, ""Matinee"", was released. It reached No. 16 and, of its four singles, only the lead single, ""Back to the Streets"", reached the Top 40. Their non-album single, ""Never"", was used for two film soundtracks, ""Footloose"" (1984) and ""Hot Rod"" (2007). By the end of 1987, the group had disbanded. The band reformed in 2011 with tours in 2011,"
"and Michael) appeared as themselves in the 1987 film, ""Rita, Sue and Bob Too"", which featured ""Gang Bang"" and ""Have a Screw"", which had been recorded by Barton and Gibb the previous year, the pair (Barton/Gibb) where also immortalised as caricatures in the TV show 'Spitting Image' and the hit single 'The Chicken Song' The band had a UK hit with their album ""Party Crazy"". 1987 saw a switcharound; Gibb returned whilst Barton left to join Smokie. Michael became a full-time member of Black Lace and he and Gibb released the single ""Jammin' the Sixties"" under the name Barracuda. The"
"1976. The band continued to record for Bang records until 1982. Other hits followed: ""That's What It's All About"" (R&B #48) and ""Dusic"" (#18 Pop, #2 R&B) in 1977, and ""Ain't Gonna Hurt Nobody"" (#92 Pop, #7 R&B) in 1978. Their last Top Ten R&B hit was ""Sweat (Til You Get Wet)"" in 1981. Under the leadership of Belinda Pervall from Total Event Management, the group is currently performing at venues around the world. Former Members Include Ray Ransom (lead vocals / bass / keyboards / percussion) Donald Nevins (vocals / Acoustic Piano / Clavinet / Moog) Edward D. Irons,"
"Friends (American band) Friends were a band from Brooklyn, New York formed in September 2010 and disbanded sometime in 2013. The band, originally named Perpetual Crush, consisted of Samantha Urbani (vocals), Lesley Hann (bass, percussion, backing vocals), Nikki Shapiro (guitar, keyboards, percussion), Matthew Molnar (keyboards, percussion, bass, and brother of Charley Molnar, former head football coach at UMass) and Oliver Duncan (drums). The group released the singles ""Friend Crush"" and ""I'm His Girl"" in 2011. On April 10, 2012, BBC Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens selected the band's third single, ""Mind Control"", as his ""Hottest Record in the World"". Friends"
"Blues Magoos The Blues Magoos are an American rock group from The Bronx, New York, United States. They were at the forefront of the psychedelic music trend, beginning in 1966. They are best known for the hit song ""(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet"". The band was formed in 1964 as ""The Trenchcoats"". The original members were Emil ""Peppy"" Thielhelm aka ""Peppy"" Castro (vocals and guitar), Dennis LePore (lead guitar), Ralph Scala (organ and vocals), Ron Gilbert (bass) and Jon Finnegan (drums). The band made a name for itself in various clubs in Greenwich Village. The band changed its name first"
"April 1988. The album peaked at number 42 on the ""Billboard"" 200. It has since sold 1.3 million copies in the US, earning a platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Four of the album's singles charted on the US ""Billboard"" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: ""Bring the Noise"", ""Don't Believe the Hype"", ""Night of the Living Baseheads"" and ""Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos"". The former three, along with the single ""Rebel Without a Pause"", also charted in the United Kingdom. ""Fear of a Black Planet"", the group's third studio album, was released in April 1990."