Midnight Star - Freak-A-Zoid (Petko Turner's Solar Edit) Electro Vocoder Funk Monster Free DL

Midnight Star - Freak-A-Zoid A Solar Edit By Mr. Turner Free DL
>> https://hypeddit.com/track/cnyvu0 The group was formed in
1976 at Kentucky State University by trumpeter Reggie Calloway,
vocalist Belinda Lipscomb, guitarist/drummer/vocalist Melvin
Gentry, bassist Kenneth Gant, multi-instrumentalist Bill Simmons,
keyboard player/vocalist Bo Watson and guitarist/keyboardist Jeff
Cooper, as a self-contained group. They later added non-KSU student
trombonist Vincent Calloway (Reginald's younger brother). A 1978
New York City showcase inspired SOLAR Records chief Dick Griffey to
sign the group. They released their debut album The Beginning
(1980) with some guest studio musicians. In 1981 their second
album, released on Solar Records, Standing Together, reached
position #54 on the U.S. R&B chart. In 1982 they released a
third album, Victory. Using elected band leader Reggie Calloway's
production skills, Midnight Star hit the U.S. R&B chart with
early singles "Hot Spot" and "I've Been Watching You". Drummer
Bobby Lovelace joined the group in late 1982, freeing Gentry to
sing and play guitar exclusively. Midnight Star's fourth album, No
Parking on the Dance Floor, was released in 1983, and proved to be
their breakout. Featuring a mix of R&B and funk with vocoder
vocals, the album hit No. 2 on the Billboard magazine Top Black
Albums chart[1] and No. 27 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape[1]
and it went double platinum in the U.S. Its first single,
"Freak-A-Zoid", went to No. 2 on the U.S. Black Singles chart. The
Washington Post's J. D. Considine argues that this song served to
"establish [the] group's stylistic identity" and that it "put
Midnight Star on the pop music map because it so perfectly combined
the group's technopop tendencies with its R&B roots". Other
singles from the album included "Wet My Whistle", and the title
track. The album's three singles all charted on Billboard's Hot
100, Black Singles and dance charts.[1] and the album tracks "Slow
Jam" (co-written by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds) and "Electricity"
received significant airplay. Their next album, Planetary Invasion,
had the same "basic sound...from the chattering electronic pulse to
Vincent Calloway's chatty vocoder" as the band's previous release
and also went platinum. The first single, "Operator" made the pop
Top 20 and the number one spot on the R&B chart; it remains the
band's only Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 hit to date. In 1985, Kool
& the Gang, Midnight Star, Shalamar and Klymaxx performed at
the Marriott Convention Center in Oklahoma City. The band continued
on to concerts in San Antonio and Little Rock. In 1986 the band
released their sixth album, Headlines, which was their third album
to sell at least gold. It was to be their last with the Calloway
brothers. Due to irreconcilable differences with the other members,
Reggie was out of the group and Vincent left shortly thereafter.
They achieved their biggest success in the UK with "Midas Touch",
which made #8, and "Headlines", a #16 hit earlier the same year.[5]
Without the Calloways (who formed the group Calloway and release an
album that spawned the 1990 hit single "I Wanna Be Rich"), Midnight
Star recorded two more albums, the self-titled Midnight Star and
Work It Out. These two albums proved not as successful as their
previous three releases, but the singles "Don't Rock the Boat" and
"Snake in the Grass" did reach the top ten on the R&B singles
chart. The group went on a long hiatus, though they never
officially broke up. The group reunited in 2000 with many of the
original members (including all of the singers) and released the
album 15th Avenue two years later. Since then, the group has toured
sporadically, most recently with a lineup that includes Belinda
Lipscomb, Kenneth Gant, Melvin Gentry, Bo Watson, and Bobby
Lovelace, with Bill Simmons sometimes joining as well.