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GOTTA BE A BETTER WAY 1989 | DR.SOUL 1989 | AROUND THE WORLD IN 80......1989 | FM2 1989 | ONCE IN A BLUE MOON 1993 |
A1: Single Version - 4:06 | A1: Extended Version - 7:03 | A1: Edit - 5:05 | 01: Dr. Soul - 4:36 | 01: The Vibe (pump) - 5:12 |
B1: Long Version - 6:29 | B1: Instrumental - 4:36 | B1: Long Version - 6:39 | 02: Gotta Be A Better Way - 4:57 | 02: Be Bop 2 Hip Hop - 5:10 |
B2: Bonus Beats - 4:20 | 03: Yum Yum - 4:25 | 03: Straight Playas - 4:47 | ||
04: Desperately - 4:46 | 04: We Came To Move Ya - 4:58 | |||
05: Was It Good for You - 3:42 | 05: One Love - 4:26 | |||
06: Wanna Make You Feel Real Good 4:51 | 06: Da Underground - 4:43 | |||
07: Around The World In 80 Beats - 5:42 | 07: T's Joint - 5:04 | |||
08: Waiting On You - 4:54 | 08: DNT - 4:15 | |||
09: When You Kiss Me - 4:44 | 09: I Keeps A Kit - 4:32 | |||
10: Props For Moms And Pops - 4:41 | ||||
11: We Came To Sax Ya - 4:58 | ||||
12: Cause I'm Lonely - 3:57 |
Denzil Foster was born in 1962 and greatly influenced by the Philly soul of the day. Thomas McElroy grew up in house that was filled with jazz, partly because his father was a jazz piano player. Foster and McElroy met eachother at Oakland, CA's Laney College on a basketball court. Both were enrolled in college: McElroy at San Francisco State, Foster at U.S.C. In the early '80s, the two saw that the popularity of R&B was declining and decided to reinvigorate the genre by adding rap beats. After hooking up with producer Jay King, they had several releases on the independent Triangle label before the formula yielded hits like the three-million selling "Rumours" by the Timex Social Club and Club Noveau's number one hit "Lean on Me." Coming with a concept for a vocal group, Foster & McElroy assembled En Vogue. The group had several number one R&B hits: "Hold On," "Lies," "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It),"You Don't Have to Worry," and "Don't Let Go (Love)." They had two platinum LPs, Born to Sing and EV3, and one triple-platinum album, Funky Divas The hit production duo of Foster & McElroy has also hits with , Tony!, Toni! Tone'!, and Silk-E. They had their own recording career as both Foster & McElroy (the Top Ten R&B hit "Dr. Soul" with M.C. Lyte and the Atlantic album Fm2) and Fmob (the smash "Runaway Love" with En Voque |