Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Pretty Poison, C.C.C.P., & Red Flag Package

PRETTY POISON is an electronic dance music group based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Group members are Jade Starling - Lead vocalist; Whey Cooler - keyboardist/guitarist; Kaya Pryor - Percussionist/keyboardist; Mike Capozzoli - Bassist; Bobby Corea - Drummer; Lou Franco - Guitar (performance). They charted for the first time in 1984 with the song "Nighttime", which hit number fourteen on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart. In 1987 their song "Catch Me (I'm Falling)" was featured in the Jon Cryer movie Hiding Out, and with heavy MTV exposure, became a top ten U.S. Billboard Hot 100 hit, peaking at number eight. The song also went to number one on the dance chart. The B-side contained a shorter "Spanish Mix" vocal. A re-recorded version of "Nighttime" became their second Hot 100 hit, climbing to number thirty-six. Pretty Poison had several more dance chart entries, the most recent being a new version of "Catch Me (I'm Falling)" which hit number forty-three in 1998.


C.C.C.P. was a German high-energy techno and rock band, led by Rasputin Stoy. They were best known for their 1986 instrumental American-Soviets, released by Clockwork Germany. This six-minute song themed on the Cold War became a major hit at dance clubs and in the US-Billboard Charts, German Top 75 and many more european charts. The following single releases (Made in Russia, Orient Express) was released by BMG Europe and BMG Pacific. Boths titles was no. 1 and no.2 in the official charts in the same week (Hong Kong, BeNeLux,France and Spain).
RED FLAG is a synthpop band founded in 1984 in San Diego by brothers Chris Reynolds and Mark Reynolds (vocals). Considered to be one of the most successful and widely known synthpop bands hailing from the United States, RED FLAG has proven to be one of the most enduring, most prolific, stylistically varied and most influential electronic bands from America.

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