We are ending this month with records that celebrate Black History and no better record than this. I bought this because I really wanted to write about New Edition in some regards. However, a slow computer is killing it for me today. Plus it is Saturday. So we are going to unfortunately make this post brief.
This record was released in 1985, right after the great success of their second record which contained “Mr Telephone Man” which is the song I greatly associated these Roxbury, Mass teens with. The video was all of tv at the time. It was a catchy song.
Today, most people remember Bobby Brown from the band as well as members Ricky Bell, Michael Bivens, and Ronnie DeVoe. However, the lead singer was Ralph Tresvant and at the time of the recording of this album, a rift between him and Brown had developed. Brown wanted more time up front. He was also dissatisfied with the group’s bubble gum image. Tensions would continue, eventually leading to Brown and the band to part ways (reunions would later follow). Who left who is debatable (mainly because I do not want to dig any further), but New Edition continued successfully. Brown became a mega star. The point of all this is that this was Brown’s last album from the 1980’s with the group.
Decent album. Was very successful. It produced three Top Ten Soul singles. The record went platinum. Again, I meant to say more but I am going to leave it at this. For a sample, I went with “Kickback”.
Satisfactory. See you next month.