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Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force went platinum. [4] Their second album, Spanish Fly, was a success in 1987. [3] It spawned two No. 1 pop hits, "Head to Toe" and "Lost in Emotion", [3] both of which went gold. "Head to Toe" peaked at No. 1 R&B for two weeks and stayed in the pop top 5 nearly three months.
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam was founded when Velez successfully auditioned for the Brooklyn production team Full Force. She met drummer Mike Hughes at Funhouse, a Manhattan underage club that she frequented to be discovered. She described the atmosphere as, "a young place, no liquor served in that place at all, so I kinda liked it.
The album's title is named for the Manhattan neighborhood in which lead vocalist Lisa Velez grew up and lived until the mid-2000s. The first half of the album was produced by C+C Music Factory's David Cole and Robert Clivillés, and the second half was produced, as with the previous Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam albums, by Full Force. [3] [4]
Lisa Velez opens up about surviving breast cancer while touring the country as the frontwoman of Lisa Lisa & Cult […]
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force is the debut album of Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam in collaboration with the band and production team, Full Force, released on Columbia Records on August 2, 1985. It is best known for the lead tracks, "I Wonder If I Take You Home", "Can You Feel the Beat" and "All Cried Out". The third of these hits also features ...
(Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force) Columbia 6 — 34 1 12 "Can You Feel the Beat" (Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force) Columbia 40 — 69 9 97 "Alice, I Want You Just for Me!" CBS 16 — — 34 9 "Girl If You Take Me Home" Columbia/CBS 78 — — 32 — 1986 "Unselfish Lover" 34 — — — — "All Cried Out" / "Behind My Eyes" (Lisa ...
"Let the Beat Hit 'Em" is a song by American urban contemporary band Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, released as the first single from their fourth and final studio album, Straight Outta Hell's Kitchen (1991). The song spent one week at number-one on the US R&B chart in the week of September 14, 1991, and also reached No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100. [2]
The album was produced by Guru, Nona Hendryx, and Junior Vasquez, among others. [9] It was Lisa's intention to move away from the Latin bubblegum style of her past as lead vocalist of the band Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam by crafting a harder-sounding record.