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What the hell ever happened to Portrait? This song was the jam! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA0wN46d3Co "Lack of home training crosses all boundaries." | |
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A song this good, I just had to help you out with the video.
As for what happened to the group? One of the members, Michael Sailbury is a friend of mine. He told me that, while they are still all good friends, they have no plans of getting back together at this time. [Edited 3/23/13 4:57am] [Edited 3/23/13 4:57am] "Love is like peeing in your pants, everyone sees it but only you feel its warmth" | |
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thank you! "Lack of home training crosses all boundaries." | |
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their second album "All That Matters" was steller from begining to end Life has a way of making you live it. . . . | |
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They did a second cd? When? "Lack of home training crosses all boundaries." | |
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Caramelpfe said: their second album "All That Matters" was steller from begining to end  Don't laugh at my funk
This funk is a serious joint | |
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I believe they released that second cd in 1995. I Can Call You was the jam. The other single from the album was their Bee Gees cover How Deep Is Your. The opening track Here's A Kiss was nice too. The lead singer left the group to go solo right after the release of the album (go figure) and replaced him with a guy that looked just like him.  Don't laugh at my funk
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Last good era of R&B. PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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Yeah, it was. It should've put them on the map. But, i think things went south, when the one dude decided he wanted to leave the group. He did this just as the album was about to drop too. What a shame. | |
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Yes. I have both albums, and they are very good!
"Love is like peeing in your pants, everyone sees it but only you feel its warmth" | |
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In the 90s,there was an abundance of R&B male vocal groups.Most of them only lasted a few years before they broke up or were dropped by their record labels...
Shai Portrait H-Town Joe Public Soul 4 Real The Boys The Rude Boys Riff Silk
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Yes this song definitely was the jam!!!! I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince. | |
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What are these guys doing now?
Portrait independently recorded an album in 2005 titled, "Share My Love". CDBaby.
I've never been a big fan of the "New Jack Swing" sound. I think Portrait feel into the tramp of being boxed into that style of music for a number of groups sound were similar. These group got lost in the shuffle even though they possess the talent to be pushed to the top.
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Don't 4 get: Soultry Ready 4 the World Profyle Something 4 the people Jodeci Boys II Men New Edition 2nd II None ..............and a few others. | |
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SoulAlive said: In the 90s,there was an abundance of R&B male vocal groups.Most of them only lasted a few years before they broke up or were dropped by their record labels...
Shai Portrait H-Town Joe Public Soul 4 Real The Boys The Rude Boys Riff Silk
Joe Public was really a band who fell into the New Jack Swing trap. They were previously known as Atension and had a single out called Push It To Ya. They looked very Minneapolis like DaKrash. I believed they pared down the lineup when they became Joe Public and changed their style from the music to fashion. Push It To Ya was in rotation on Video Soul in the late 80's but never became a radio hit. [Edited 3/25/13 8:38am] Don't laugh at my funk
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Joe Public was actually a band, not a vocal group. But they definitely had a sound that was very good in the early 90's.
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All the members are on FB.
Does anyone remember the group The Black Flames? | |
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They burned out.......... | |
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Wow. I thought it was just me... Their first album was really good, and underrated.
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who's the Black Flames? "Lack of home training crosses all boundaries." | |
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0 | |
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The Black Flames
An R&B trio signed to Def Jam (likely by Russell Simmons rather than Rick Rubin), this New Jack trio made their first appearance in 1987 on the Less Than Zero soundtrack (produced by Def Jam) which also included LL Cool J’s “Going Back to Cali” and Public Enemy’s “Bring The Noise.” They released only one album entitled The Black Flames featuring a New Jack remake of the hit song “Watching You”, and a second single entitled “Dance With Me.” In sound, the Black Flames were a lot like New Jack-era Tony Toni Tone – the lead singer sounding very much like Raphael Saadiq.
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Still don't know who they are-never heard their music "Lack of home training crosses all boundaries." | |
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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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I bought the first 2 albums of Something For The People. Their debut album (before "My Love Is The Shhh" hit single) has some excellent songs. Tons of other groups released work then, from which I can remember at the moment:
Damage Elements Of Life (EOL) Goodfellaz Mista Mn8 Solo (from Jam & Lewis' Perspective boutique)
Some other groups got a longer run such as Blackstreet with Teddy Riley or 112. Blackstreet's Dave Hollister continued after the group with solo work. One of the last singing groups I noticed in the 00s was Metropolis with a few catchy tracks. | |
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