Battle of the freestyle Girl groups who was your favorite?


Expose



Cover Girls



Sweet Sensation



Seduction



Company B.





I am quite sure a majority of the orgers alone will go for the popular choice...Expo ahem!!! I myself like stuff from all of them, but my fave would have to be....

Expose!

Company B was easily the worst of those you listed. That first album had a few okay singles, but overall it was pretty bad.

I liked and have a few Cover Girls singles, but never bought any of their albums so that eliminates them.

I sold my Seduction CD on ebay so they are out too--I never really thought their style was limited to freestyle anyway. C+C Music Factory made them bigger than that.

I still have my Exposé and Sweet Sensation records so it's between those two. Exposé's sound was much more polished and their first album may be the best freestyle record ever. But Sweet Sensation had that NYC freestyle sound that I loved so much--more than the Miami thing that Exposé was doing.

I'm gonna have to go with the obvious choice and say Exposé.

(Although if you had included solo artist, Sa-Fire, she would have been my easy winner.)

spelling edit.
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I have this album:

CinisterCee said:

Kickass, no?

I never had those albums xcept for Seduction

My choice would be Expose

VoicesCarry said:

Yeah I had their Greatest Hits at one point until I realized their hottest material (IMO) was highly concentrated on that debut.

CinisterCee said:

I agree. I'm not a fan of their later work.

My favs are Exposed To Love and Point Of No Return. If you get Exposé's Greatest Dance Mixes, you also get the original version of PONR (it runs some 6 minutes) with a different vocalist (not Gioia). That dance compilation and Exposure are what I would up buying.
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SEDUCTION was/Is my favorite freestyle girl group...COVER GIRLS are up there right next to them in my list. My favorite solo artist is CYNTHIA...'Endless night' is one of my fav freestyle jams

sextonseven said:

Expose!!!

Jeannette sang the remake of "Point of no return", not Gioia. Gioia sang "Let me be the one".

The 1985 original Expose had a girl named Sandee singing lead vocals on PONR and Exposed To Love.

Expose. I'm not very familar with the others.

VoicesCarry said:

That sounds like it might be worth checking out. Thanks.

boriquateddy said:

The black girl in the group used to live a few houses from me back in the days before she was in the group.

one2three said:

heh thats cool

VoicesCarry said:

I have Exposé's second album, 'What You Don't Know'. It's not bad. There are some freestyle songs on it, but you can tell they were trying to expand their sound. Sandee, the vocalist on the original "Point Of No Return" had a few solo hits like "You're The One" and "Notice Me".

boriquateddy said:

Caroline Jackson's (far left) younger brother was my classmate in grade school. The Cover Girls weren't popular until after we all graduated and that's when my friends and I realized that we knew who she was.

sextonseven said:

I like that album a l ot as well. It was sad that Gioia had to leave the group (according to the Greatest Hits liner notes) due to "irraparable throat damage" . Then was replaced by Kelly Moneymaker. I heard she was attempting to release a solo album, but nothing yet. If in fact her throat was that bad...I don't think we'll be hearing from her anytime soon or again.

Chico1 said:

Gioia's released 1 album and 1 one-off single on indie labels.
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Why doesnt anyone ever mention Stevie B?



Not a girl group, but still.
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VoicesCarry said:

OK..AND!!!!!???? Title, label, etc?

Well don't just tell. Post where I can find that shit! Quit teasing.

Are these groups really freestyle? Expose and Seduction always sounded very pop to me. They didn't really have Latina singers either.

VoicesCarry said:

I say that on Amazon recently. I think it had a titled that somehow referenced Expose.

dreamfactory313 said:

Stevie B is cool with me. His music still sometimes gets play on the stations here in Detroit (it's rarer and rarer as the pop stations try to avoid old school as much as possible now).

VinnyM27 said:

Thank goodness for Lisa Lisa!

Chico1 said:

Amazon and All Music?

VoicesCarry said:

Or CDuniverse, which lets you take use their images!


I told you the title mentions Expose!

http://www.cduniverse.com...=228934434

WhamBamGlamSlam said:

I agree that I wouldn't really place Seduction in the freestyle category either, but Exposé's first album was a big freestyle record.

Seduction and Company B didn't have Latina singers, but Sweet Sensation and The Cover Girls were definitely Latinas and so was Jeanette Jurado of Exposé.

sextonseven said:

Having Lating singers doesn't qualify you as freestyle though...you still had Shannon who is considered a founding mother of the genre and Joyce Sims. Seduction was a racially diverse group which did have Idalis who was Puerto Rican....I included them because there songs were still spinned regularly among freestyle sets,they definitely did have a more diverse sound of all of the ladies mentioned...