They achieved their biggest success in the UK with " Midas Touch", which made #8, and "Headlines", a #16 hit earlier the same year. Due to irreconcilable differences with the other members, Reggie was out of the group, and Vincent left shortly thereafter. It was to be their last with the Calloway brothers. In 1986 the band released the Headlines, which was their third album to sell at least gold. The band continued to concerts in San Antonio and Little Rock. In 1985, Kool & the Gang, Midnight Star, Shalamar and Klymaxx performed at the Marriott Convention Center in Oklahoma City. " Operator", the first single, made the pop top 20 and the number one spot on the R&B chart it remains the band's only Billboard top 40 hit to date. The Planetary Invasion,had the same "basic om the chattering electronic pulse to Vincent Calloway's chatty vocoder" as the band's previous release and also went platinum. and the album tracks "Slow Jam" (co-written by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds) and "Electricity" received significant airplay. The album's three singles all charted on Billboard's Hot 100, Black Singles and dance charts. Considine argues that this song served to "establish 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. Its first single, "Freak-A-Zoid", went to No. 27 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape and it went double platinum in the U.S. 2 on the Billboard magazine Top Black Albums chart and No.
Featuring a mix of R&B and funk with vocoder vocals, the album hit No. Midnight Star's fourth album, No Parking on the Dance Floor, was released in 1983, and proved to be their breakout. Drummer Bobby Lovelace joined the group in late 1982, freeing Gentry to sing and play guitar exclusively.
R&B chart with early singles "Hot Spot" and "I've Been Watching You". Using elected band leader Reggie Calloway's production skills, Midnight Star hit the U.S.
In 1981 their second album, released on Solar Records, Standing Together, reached position #54 on the U.S. They released their debut album The Beginning (1980) with some studio musicians. A 1978 New York City showcase inspired SOLAR Records chief Dick Griffey to sign the group. They later added non-KSU student trombonist Vincent Calloway (Reginald's younger brother). 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. Midnight Star is an American musical group that had a string of hit records in the 1980s.
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