has anyone heard the group SWITCH?


I heard a song by them, I don't have a clue if they are still a group or not, but they sounded so PRINCE late 70s.....

The song was called "I call your name"

Anyways, just wanted to share this and also if anyone knows if they get their inspiration from our man or if it was maybe the other way around???

I Call Your Name does NOT sound like Prince.

Scandalous69 said:

Neither. Prince and Switch just happend to come along around the same time.

The group was discovered by Jermaine Jackson. The guys from Switch, Bobby and Tommy DeBarge are brothers to El, Randy, Bunny, Mark and James DeBarge (Janet Jackson's ex-husband) of the R&B group DeBarge (biggest songs include "I Like It", "Time Will Reveal", and "All This Love".

Released in late 1980,this is my favorite Switch album.Contains the hit "Love Over And Over Again",which is also my favorite song by them.Also features some great uptempo jams like "Believe In Yourself" and "Just Imagine",plus a smooth slow jam "You And I".

FruitToAttractBears said:

No it does NOT sound like a title to his song AT ALL

SoulAlive said:

OW KAY
Those guys look sooooo.....ummmm....what's the word?
Uncomfortableintheirpants maybe?

GOSH

THANX FOR THE PIC AND INFO

Ifsixwuz9 said:

Wow, thanx Ifsixwuz9!
I would have never ever thought that they could be linked to the DeBarge family.....
Well, well.....you learn something new every day.
I might, just MIGHT, go and purchase something from these guys....just for fun...

SoulAlive said:

That really is a good album. Gotta give it up for the title track as well. For me, its a toss-up between This is My Dream and Switch 2.

unkemptpueblo said:

I really dig the snaphots at the bottom of the page, each one displaying their "super powers".. Freakin hilarious!

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Man, these albums take me back!!!!!

Incidentally, the group was called Switch because most of the guys were multi-instrumentalists, and would often all switch instruments while onstage, in the middle of playing! At first, they all hated the name, but they never got around to coming up with a better one, so it stuck, for better or worse...








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Scandalous69 said:

The Bebarge brothers and sister. Nice collection of songs. Janet Jackson married their brother way back.

paligap said:

I'm gonna have to visit a used record store! I need some of those albums

SoulAlive said:

Yeah. I dont think I ve ever seen Switch 5.

unkemptpueblo said:

There's a great ballad on Switch 5, called "I'll Always Keep"



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Other members included lead-vocalist Philip Ingram and multi-instrumentalist Gregory Williams .
I still have to check their last album on Total Experience ( the label from Lonnie simmons ) . It's called " Am I Still Your Boyfriend " and was released in 1984 .
From liner-notes i remember that producer/writer/musician Attala Zane Giles had some input in some part of the Switch-era .
Attala also did a project with Philip Ingram called DECO and was released in 1983 on Q-West .

Switch was great. They have some of my favorite slow jams of all time. The kind of slow jams that make you wanna do those filthy unnatural thangs.

THANX U GUYS

and yeah I really dig the pix and snapshots as well on the bottom of the album cover.....

Aahhhhh THOSE WERE THE DAYS.....

incidentally, since the time I posted this, I found out my dad was a huge fan of SWITCH

WATTAYA KNOW?!?!?!?
My dad had an afro as well.....

AMAZING WHAT INFO WE DONO UNTIL WE ASK ABOUT IT

vainandy said:

... Since we are lyin' here ah
For the first time, you and I
Show me what you'll do for me
And then will I
Don't try to hide your nature
No other girl could never rate ya
There'll never be a better love, love, love, love.....

Please come over here and let me whisper in your ear
I'll say something good to you, you
Always wanted to hear
So real I know you won't regret it
So good I know you won't forget it....

Damn that was the song back in the day!

I DO
U Do
Birds and bees do too-woo

i I love u
u u love me
And and I KNOW!!

Wo wo wo wo wo...

Me and my brother use to pretend we were them singing THEM WERE DEM THERE DAYS

Phillip Ingram and James Ingram are brother's! I love Switch!! I remember those first two albumn covers...but not the ohers!

Kissmequick said:

takes me right back to the summer of '78

SoulAlive said:

Lovely.

Without You in My Life!!!! Philip Ingram!

Also some kids may not know that Raheim DeVaughn sampled the hell out of Switch's My Friend in the Sky on the Love Experience.

SoulAlive said:

Who has this joint @ home ? ... Any solid jams on it ?

100MPH said:

The last Switch album I bought was their third album.I lost interest after that.Bobby and a few other members left,and it was never the same after that.