Timmy84 said:

Wow! What part of the country did he grow up in? I'm 40 years old and I have never heard anyone say that they thought a little boy dressing up like a girl and performing was cute.

Timmy84 said:

Motown said it only sold 30,000 copies

kitbradley said:

In California.

banks said:

Yeah that's right. 30,000...anyway still stupid lol

funkpill said:

Co sign.

Stacy seemed to have a lot of regret regarding her career.. I think she want people to think that she was ok with walking away but i get the feeling that it's not the case

banks said:

Yeah, for awhile, she said that she couldn't look at the Grammys

ernestsewell said:

Stacy didn't have a lot of exposure when it came to her "grown-up" songs. On Unsung, they said that she only had one video. That wasn't true. I remember being completely "in love" with one of her songs when I was a teenager. It was called "Every drop of your love" and I remember there was a video for it that showed on one of the BET video shows in the late '80's.

banks said:

Talk about "humble beginnings." She actually said that she remembered him as "patient and nice" Hmmm.

maria1999 said:

That was before he got with Uptown.

This is a bit off-topic. But for those who choose to comment on how Unsung doesn't seem to give a lot of detail about the artists that are featured. I don't think that it was intended to give a "blow-by-blow" account on what happened in the artists' worlds that led to them "leaving" the industry.
I thought that all of them (the I watched) were very informative. Remember what they are telling us is information either gathered from the source or through those close to the source. Which ever Unsung choses to go with, there will always be "left out" for whatever reason. For instance, I remember watching 106 & Park when BTK first reported breaking-up. Omarion said in his interview that everyone was paid, yet in the interview with J and the other ones, they insisted that they weren't paid.
In the case of Stacy and Teena Marie, I believe what they both said, because that is a universial truth about the recording industry.
Shalamar eventually fizzled because everyone of the original three all left the group. Also, true of the Clark Sisters
Minnie, Phyllis, Donnie, and Sylvester are no longer here in the flesh
Norman Whitfield "played" the boys versus girl game with Rose Royce.
and Klymaxx, also, had individuals with ego issues which ended up messing them up.

maria1999 said:

I don't think they said she had one video. They just said her first #1 song was her last video.

ernestsewell said:

That song she did the video for was not her #1 Her only #1 was the duet with Johnny Gill " Where Do We Go From Here" and no video was shot for the song, but they did say that the video in question was her one and only video
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But those guys are not doing there home work, cause i know Stacy had more than 1 music video

One I did notice is that she is completely charisma free and no stage presence. You can really see that in that clip where she did Dynamite. She also seems bitter.

I used to love Dynamite.

scriptgirl said:

Having lived during the era in question and having been a Stacy fan in my younger years, I can say that her concerts were great fun back in the day, and it might be unreasonable to judge her overall career as a performer from one random clip. Additionally,if she seems bitter, I actually don't blame her; she was very,very young when she was thrust into r&b stardom, and to date the collective track record for how children were treated in the entertainment biz (before the Big- Brotherish advent of the Internet) was poor to say the least. Had bben a child star prior to the 90's, I'd probably be mad too.

phunkdaddy said:

I LOVED the Sylvester episode, phunk!





I did, though.

and where were Ms. Lattisaw's parents in all of this?

banks said:

I've been looking for the Million Dollar Babe video for awhile! I had it on VHS some years ago

Ottensen said:

Damn man that brick hurts.

funkpill said:

In some regard the music business ran the poor girl out, she's not the first. I mentioned to scriptgirl I have a collection of records/albums from artist that recorded one, two or three albums/songs. Damn good albums and songs...
When I've searched to see why these groups or singers discography is limited, most said they walked away because of the bs. Hell, it takes Bill Withers to talk about why he walked away.

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TD3 said:

Shuggie Otis didn't want fame either. He turned down a lot of opportunities. It's like he felt if he became famous then he'll lose himself and be like what his friends like Sly Stone and Billy Preston turned into.

Timmy84 said:

Kudos to those like Otis who can see the price appears to be WAY high. I read an interview years ago and Frampton talking about the price fame. He said, he could see it coming like a mack train, he was scared silly and barely survived it. It's more than a notion, it's like one step from selling your soul something..


I can't wait to get home see this. Though my daughter said, Centric doesn't seem to be repeating these Unsungs like they do Soul Train.
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TD3 said:

Uh that's because Unsung is on TV-One.

Timmy84 said:

Well shit maybe that's why she and I are missing them.

I get my black tv confused, they all look alike.




I get my spelling confused too, one day me and blackberry are going to make this work. See.
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TD3 said: