- The Manhattans( Manhattans )【 5 albums 70 lyrics 】
- The Manhattans are an American popular R&B vocal group. Their work includes million-selling songs 'Kiss and Say Goodbye' recorded in 1976 and 1980's 'Shining Star'. The Manhattans have recorded twelve top 10 R&B hits in the United States charting on the Billboard chart for the first time in 1965. Their 1983 song 'Forever by Your Side' remains especially popular in Brazil thirty years after its release.
Early history
The Manhattans, originally from Jersey City, formed in 1962 with members George 'Smitty' Smith (born December 18, 1939, Florida; died December 16, 1970), Edward 'Sonny' Bivins (born Edward Jessie Bivins, Jr., January 15, 1936, Macon, Georgia; died December 3, 2014, Basking Ridge Bernards Township, New Jersey), Winfred 'Blue' Lovett (born Winfred Lorenzo Lovett, November 16, 1936, Jersey City; died December 9, 2014, Arizona), Kenny 'Wally' Kelley (born Kenneth Bernard Kelly, January 9, 1941, Jersey City; died February 17, 2015), and Richard 'Ricky' Taylor (born in 1940; died December 7, 1987). Bivins, Lovett, and Kelley were graduating from Lincoln High School, while Taylor and Smith were graduating from Snyder High School. All five enlisted in the armed forces and came together as a group following their discharges from their respective branches.
The group's first single was 'For the Very First Time,' released in 1964 by Carnival Records. They continued recording successfully with songs written by various members of the group. In 1968, the group received the 'Most Promising Group' award by NATRA. In 1969, the group moved to the De Luxe record label, a subsidiary of King Records, subsequently embarking on a college tour. While playing at Kittrell College in North Carolina, the group met another group, the New Imperials, featuring Gerald Alston, nephew of The Shirelles' lead singer, Shirley Alston-Reeves. They were so impressed with Alston that they asked him to join the group, but he declined.
Misfortune hit the group late in 1970 when George Smith fell down a flight of stairs and later took ill. With him unable to perform, the group began to search for a new lead. First they attempted to woo The Cymbals' lead, Lee Williams, but he was unwilling to leave his current group. The group then renewed their request to Gerald Alston (born November 8, 1951, North Carolina), who accepted and took over the lead spot. Original lead singer George Smith died of a brain tumor on December 16, 1970, 2 days before his 31st birthday.
The Manhattans continued recording throughout the 1970s with Alston singing lead vocals. They struck chart gold in 1973 with the Bivins-written song 'There's No me Without You'. Then their biggest song to date was 'Kiss and Say Goodbye,' written by Blue Lovett and arranged/co-produced with the group by the Philadelphia-based record producer Bobby Martin, a former member of the MFSB band of session musicians. The song quickly became a #1 chart topper on both the US Billboard Pop and R&B charts. It also became only the second single to go platinum[citation needed], after the RIAA introduced the award in 1976. Taylor left in 1976 to concentrate on his conversion to Islam. He died in 1987 after a long illness. The group continued as a quartet, and found further success in March 1980 with the release of 'Shining Star,' which reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #4 on the R&B Chart. Produced and co-written by the Chicago-based record producer, Leo Graham, it received a Grammy Award the following spring.
In 1983, The Manhattans released the album Forever by Your Side, by Columbia Records, which brought the two singles the group that year. The first was the song 'Crazy', the great success of this album, peaked at #4 on the R&B chart. The second single was the title track 'Forever by Your Side', which had moderate success in the United States, peaked at #30 on the R&B chart, but has become a great success and a romantic classic in Brazil two years later, when she was part of the soundtrack of a soap opera in the country in 1985. The success made 'Forever by Your Side' gain a Portuguese version the following year, called 'Pra Sempre Vou Te Amar', which also was successful in Brazil and was recorded by several Brazilian artists. Another highlight of this album Forever by Your Side was the song 'Just The Lonely Talking Again', written by the American singer and songwriter Sam Dees, which was originally recorded by The Manhattans this 1983 album and was later re-recorded by Whitney Houston on her second studio album 'Whitney' in 1987.
The group celebrated its 20th anniversary in 1985 with the release of Too Hot To Stop It. It included the Evans/Smith-penned 'When We're Made As One,' originally recorded in 1966 but covered in an a cappella, doo wop style to emphasize the group's doo wop roots. The album was also dedicated to George Smith.
The group continued until 1988. That year, Alston left to record as a solo artist, scoring with several major R&B hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s for Motown. Roger Harris was recruited as the new lead singer for the group, which moved to the new label, Valley Vue, when their Columbia recording contract expired. - Sorted by ＞ Sorted by album (Time) Sorted by song name (Characters) Sorted by other
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There’s No Me Without You
2016
1.There's No Me Without You
2.Falling Apart at the Seams (Provided)
3.The Day the Robin Sang to Me
4.It's so Hard Loving You (Provided)
5.You'd Better Believe It6.Soul Train (Provided)
7.I'm Not a Run Around (Provided)
8.Wish That You Were Mine
9.We Made It (Provided)
10.The Other Side of Me (Provided) -
There’s No Good In Goodbye Reissue
2016
1.There's No Good in Goodbye (Provided)
2.Here Comes the Hurt Again (X-Rated Version) (Provided)
3.Don't Say Goodbye (X-Rated Version) (Provided)
4.Am I Losing You (Alternate Version w o Rap) (Provided)
5.Don't Say Goodbye (Provided)
6.Everybody Has a Dream
7.Movin' (Provided)8.Goodbye Is the Saddest Word
9.You're My Life
10.Happiness (Provided)
11.Share My Life (Provided)
12.Tomorrow (Provided)
13.Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye (Provided)
14.That's Not Part of the Show (X-Rated Version) (Provided) -
Love Talk
2016
1.Love Talk (Provided)
2.The Right Feeling at the Wrong Time (Provided)
3.Devil in the Dark (Provided)
4.Here Comes the Hurt Again (Provided)
5.I Just Wanna Be the One in Your Life (Provided)6.New York City (Provided)
7.That's Not Part of the Show (Provided)
8.We Tried (Provided)
9.After You -
Forever by Your Side
1983
1.I'm Ready to Love You Again
2.Just the Lonely Talking Again3.Forever by Your Side -
Miscellaneous
1.Kiss And Say Goodbye
2.Shining Star
3.Am I Losing You (Extended Edit)
4.Girl of My Dream
5.I Kinda Miss You
6.Hurt
7.Am I Losing You
8.Everyday People
9.You Are My Shining Star
10.Kiss And Say Godbye
11.We Never Danced to a Love Song (Live)
12.It Feels So Good to Be Loved So Bad (Live)
13.Kiss And Say Goodbye - Single Version
14.Dreamin'
15.Shinning Star
16.There's No Me Without You (Live)
17.Follow Your Heart18.Manhattan Stomp
19.Turn Out the Stars (Remastered)
20.I Got It Right (Remastered)
21.Don't Take Your Love
22.Do You Really Mean Goodbye?
23.Just One Moment Away
24.Kiss And Say Goodbye (Radio Edit)
25.Shining Star (Re-Recorded / Remastered)
26.Honey, Honey
27.When I Leave Tomorrow
28.Kiss and Say Goodbay
29.If My Heart Could Speak
30.The Way We Were / Memories
31.I'll Never Find Another (Find Another Like You)
32.Crazy
33.Reasons
34.Send for Me
【Correction of errors in the album information】