History
In 1978, the Pointer Sisters had begun an eleven-year association with Richard Perry - first through his Planet label and then still working with Perry with RCA Records - with the group amassing a total of eleven Top 40 hits. The career climax afforded by the Pointer Sisters' 1984 multi-platinum album release, Break Out - parent to four Top Ten hits1 - was followed by a decline in popularity and in 1988 the Pointer Sisters ended their contract with RCA.
It was reported in March 1989 that the Pointer Sisters were negotiating with Motown Records (who had passed on the group when they'd sought their first record deal in 1971).2 The group signed with Motown in May 1989 with member June Pointer then stating: "We want to help Motown get back up where it was" referencing the label's own faded fortunes.
Motown did not prove the label to recharge the Pointer Sister's career. The label released the groups' Right Rhythm album in the summer of 1990 following the May 1990 issue of the advance single "Friends' Advice"; that single was a relative failure, only reaching #36 on the Billboard R&B charts. The second single, a ballad called "After You," also failed to find a widespread audience. A third single, a remixed version of the album's "Insanity," managed a #62 R&B peak (#11 on the Billboard dance charts). Right Rhythm would be the only album release by the Pointer Sisters on Motown.
- 1including "I'm So Excited" introduced on the 1982 So Excited! album but remixed and added to later pressings of Breakout
- 2Original member Bonnie Pointer had left the group for a solo career with Motown: she was on the label's roster 1977-1981.
Read more about this topic: Right Rhythm
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“The myth of independence from the mother is abandoned in mid- life as women learn new routes around the mother—both the mother without and the mother within. A mid-life daughter may reengage with a mother or put new controls on care and set limits to love. But whatever she does, her child’s history is never finished.”
—Terri Apter (20th century)
“The true theater of history is therefore the temperate zone.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment’s comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)