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Premieres on Monday. Here's another group I never knew much about outside of their music. I've been seeing previews for the past few days. Apparently, when Barbara Weather joined the group, she was dating one of the Lewis brothers, which reaked all kinds of havoc within the group. Hmmmmm. I'm also interested in finding out why A&M made a bigger push to cross the group over to Pop audiences after Sharon Bryant exited.

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I'm actually excited about that one too...

Not real excited about this ep

YESS

I look forward to this episode mainly because of Sharon Bryant.

Barbara was dating Wayne during her tenure with the group.

After Barbara went solo it was one female lead after another.

Looking forward to this episode but I wonder if they interview Sharon Bryant as well. I guess the better question to ask is who was the better lead singer for the group Sharon or Barbara?

I have to go with Barbara Weather.

I loved We My Whistle ... wait.

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LittleBLUECorvette said:

I loved We My Whistle ... wait.

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What ep airs after theirs?

scriptgirl said:

What ep airs after theirs?

Hopefully Full Force.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

scriptgirl said:

What ep airs after theirs?

Hopefully Full Force.

You'll have to wait on Jan 30 for the Full Force ep. Can't wait for Atlantic Starr's ep, I wanna see what happened between them and Sharon Bryant.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

scriptgirl said:

What ep airs after theirs?

Hopefully Full Force.

Freddie Jackson's next if I'm not mistaken.

1sotrue said:

Looking forward to this episode but I wonder if they interview Sharon Bryant as well. I guess the better question to ask is who was the better lead singer for the group Sharon or Barbara?

I have to go with Barbara Weather.

Miss Bryant, in a heartbeat.

scriptgirl said:

Not real excited about this ep

Me neither, but I'm going to watch anyway.

Harlepolis said:

1sotrue said:

Looking forward to this episode but I wonder if they interview Sharon Bryant as well. I guess the better question to ask is who was the better lead singer for the group Sharon or Barbara?

I have to go with Barbara Weather.

Miss Bryant, in a heartbeat.

I liked Barbara but she had more of a softer, Pop voice. Sharon was a R&B belter!!! So, I'll have to go with Sharon on this one!!!!

Atlantic Starr, Starpoint and Midnight Star were all interchangeable to me

scriptgirl said:

Atlantic Starr, Starpoint and Midnight Star were all interchangeable to me

Five star

No, I mean Midnight Star-they did "Freakazoid."

scriptgirl said:

Atlantic Starr, Starpoint and Midnight Star were all interchangeable to me

Atlantic Starr was the better and most memorable out of those groups.

Atlantic def had more hits

babybugz said:

scriptgirl said:

Atlantic Starr, Starpoint and Midnight Star were all interchangeable to me

Atlantic Starr was the better and most memorable out of those groups.

1sotrue said:

Looking forward to this episode but I wonder if they interview Sharon Bryant as well. I guess the better question to ask is who was the better lead singer for the group Sharon or Barbara?

I have to go with Barbara Weather.

Sharon Bryant could SANG! She was gritty and could get down. You ever heard "My Turn Now" or "You're the One?" Man, hold up! (LOL)

I would take Sharon over Barbara any day too...

Timmy84 said:

I would take Sharon over Barbara any day too...

Sharon could sing the alphabet and it would be good! She is an awesome vocalist!

babybugz said:

scriptgirl said:

Atlantic Starr, Starpoint and Midnight Star were all interchangeable to me

Atlantic Starr was the better and most memorable out of those groups.

I saw Starpoint and Atlantic Starr on the same show back in the mid

eighties and Starpoint's show was definitely better. Atlantic Starr was

very bland with Barbara Weathers to the point they literally put me to

sleep. Midnight Star would smoke Atlantic Starr like a mutherfuckin

pack of Kools. That said i look forward to this episode but i liked the

Sharon Bryant era a lot better.

Okay so tell me if I got this right....

I absolutely love the songs: "When Love Calls", "Circles" and "Touch a Four Leaf Clover". So these songs were the ones featuring Sharon Bryant correct?

I find these songs to be absolutely cheesy and despise them: "Always", "Secret Lover", "If Your Heart Isn't In It". These songs are the ones featuring Barbara Weathers? Cause these are the tunes that put me to sleep.

missfee said:

Okay so tell me if I got this right....

I absolutely love the songs: "When Love Calls", "Circles" and "Touch a Four Leaf Clover". So these songs were the ones featuring Sharon Bryant correct?

I find these songs to be absolutely cheesy and despise them: "Always", "Secret Lover", "If Your Heart Isn't In It". These songs are the ones featuring Barbara Weathers? Cause these are the tunes that put me to sleep.

Missfee, you are correct about the Sharon Bryant songs. In my opinion, I thought the band was more funky and rhythmic when Sharon was the lead singer. Not to take anything from Barbara Weathers, but when she became lead singer the band not only went adult contemporary and pop, but they dropped some of their core members. In all honesty, after their 1987 album I stopped listening.

I definitely prefer the Sharon Bryant years to the ones with Barbara Weathers. Apart from Freak-a-Ristic, Silver Shadow and Cool, Calm Collected, there wasn't too much from that time with Barbara Weathers that I really liked to what they had before. And Barbara was dating Wayne Lewis during her time with the group?! I'll be tuning in this ep for sure.