Well, the word hit school that they had a concert date, and I swear it seemed like the entire school was going! Well the day of the show arrived and me and a group of friends got there a bit early to hang out and see everyone else that we knew! The doors to the coliseum finally opened and we made our way in!

I seriously have the best memory ever of seeing Bell Biv DeVoe perform in the very early 90's during my senior year of High School! These guys were the shit then, and pretty much everyone was playing there CD in their cars! It was such a fun band and such fun music, it was impossible not to be a fan! In Bell Biv DeVoe we have a group that the pop world would sorely miss if they went away, the music world is a brighter place with their presence, and to this day they can still put on a killer live show. The band have also frequently reunited with their New Edition bandmates to perform concerts and record new albums. Since then the band has released two further albums, both favouring their hip-hop influences over the pop sounds that made their name.

“Do Me!” the bands follow up single, was equally as succesful, getting to number three on the Billboard Hot 100. This mix of hard edged hip-hop and smooth pop sensibilities basically created the genre of new jack swing as we know it and their debut single, their album’s title track, was a smash hit that’s gone on to be one of the most enduring pop songs of the early 90’s. In the wake of this, Bell, Bivins and Devoe were put together to form their own group by legendary production duo Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.īy 1990, the band had recorded “Poison”, their first album, which featured the production skills of Eric Sadler, and Hank and Keith Shocklee, otherwise known as Public Enemy’s Bomb Squad.

Throughout their time together the group were plagued by label and management problems, and by the end of the decade most of the band wanted out. However, all was not well behind the scenes. By the time they were fifteen and sixteen they were headlining national concert tours and scoring top five singles and albums regularly. The band were formed during the hiatus of their previous band New Edition, who were a pop quintet formed in 1978 when most of its members were around ten and eleven. They are the other kind of one hit wonder, the kind that has a pretty consistent level of love that passes from generation to generation, and few bands deserve that kind of respect more than these guys. Bell Biv Devoe, it’s safe to say, are not one of those bands. These are the kind of hits that make the people who saw their rise up the charts first-hand wince in pain at the very thought of them. The more common kind is the group or artist that is so ridiculously of their time that it makes one wonder how anyone took them seriously in the first place. In pop music you get two kinds of one hit wonders.

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