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Heatwave's November single "Gangsters of the Groove" was a popular music success, [3] scoring number twenty-one on the US R&B chart (failing to make the Hot 100 because of the anti-disco backlash), and number 19 in the United Kingdom early in the New Year. [9] But the album peaked at number 71 in the United States in December 1980. [4]
Heatwave's Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by Heatwave released by Epic Records in 1984. It features all of their biggest hits from all of their albums, with the lone exception of the Hot Property album, which all of its singles were omitted.
Rodney Lynn Temperton was born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, [2] on 9 October 1949. [5] Interviewed for the BBC Radio 2 documentary The Invisible Man: the Rod Temperton Story, he said that he was a musician from an early age: "My father wasn't the kind of person who would read you a story before you went off to sleep.
After the international success of Heatwave's disco single "Boogie Nights", "Always and Forever" was chosen as the U.S. follow-up single in late 1977.A ballad featuring lead vocals by Johnnie Wilder, Jr., "Always and Forever" stood out among the band's predominantly disco repertoire and became a successful U.S. hit song in early 1978.
The song became one of the best-known disco songs by a British group and charted at No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart. In the US, "Boogie Nights" also peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 behind "You Light Up My Life" by Debby Boone. [2] It appeared on US Billboard R&B and dance charts during 1977.
Johnnie Wilder Jr. was born in Dayton, Ohio. He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War era, serving briefly in Vietnam as an infantryman before being reassigned to West Germany, where he first began performing solo in Taverns and Night clubs, following his discharge, he opted to stay in Germany before relocating to the United Kingdom where he met future Heathwave songwriter/keyboardist ...
Current is the fifth studio album by funk-disco band Heatwave, released in 1982 on the Epic label. It was produced by Barry Blue.. It was the last Heatwave album to feature vocalist Johnnie Wilder Jr. before his departure to pursue a solo career, as well as their final album to feature Rod Temperton as the band's primary songwriter, although he continued to write songs for other musicians ...
Candles is the fourth studio album by the British pop, funk, disco band Heatwave. Arranged, and primarily written by Rod Temperton , it was released on 21 November 1980 ( 1980-11-21 ) on the GTO record label in the United Kingdom, and the Epic record label (number 36873) in the United States.