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The Whispers

Index The Whispers

The Whispers are an American group from Los Angeles, California, who have scored hit records since the late 1960s. [1]

79 relations: Adult Contemporary (chart), Allan Felder, And the Beat Goes On (The Whispers song), Band (rock and pop), Bertelsmann Music Group, Billboard (magazine), Billboard 200, Billboard Hot 100, Bingo (The Whispers album), Boogie (genre), Bunny Sigler, California, Capitol Records, Caravan of Love, Carrie Lucas, Cleopatra Records, Collage (American band), Conscription in the United States, Dance Club Songs, Dick Griffey, EMI-Capitol Special Markets, Fort Worth, Texas, Funk, Headlights (album), Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Imagination (The Whispers album), Interscope Records, Janus Records, Just Gets Better with Time, List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart, List of Billboard number-one dance club songs, Loma Linda, California, Los Angeles, Love for Love, Love Is Where You Find It, Make It with You, Missouri, More of the Night, Music recording certification, My Girl (The Temptations song), My, My, My (Johnny Gill song), New Orleans, Nicholas Caldwell, Norman Harris (musician), Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, Official Charts Company, One for the Money (album), Open Up Your Love, Record chart, Recording Industry Association of America, ..., Rhythm and Blues Foundation, Rock Steady (The Whispers song), Ronnie Baker, RPM (magazine), San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, Sanctuary Records, Sly Stone, So Good (The Whispers album), SOLAR Records, Soul music, St. Louis, Texas, The Friends of Distinction, The Right Stuff Records, The Rippingtons, The Star-Spangled Banner, The Whispers (album), Top 40, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Twin, UK Albums Chart, UK Singles Chart, Unidisc Music, Vietnam War, Vocal Group Hall of Fame, Watts, California, Whisper in Your Ear, 1989 World Series. Expand index (29 more) »

Adult Contemporary (chart)

The Adult Contemporary chart is published weekly by Billboard magazine and lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary radio stations in the United States.

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Allan Felder

Allan Wayne Felder (May 26, 1943 – November 7, 1999) was an American songwriter.

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And the Beat Goes On (The Whispers song)

"And the Beat Goes On" is a 1979 single by the American music group The Whispers.

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Band (rock and pop)

A rock band or pop band is a small musical ensemble which performs rock music, pop music or a related genre.

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Bertelsmann Music Group

Bertelsmann Music Group (abbreviated as BMG) was a division of German media company Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on 1 October 2008.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Bingo (The Whispers album)

Bingo is the fourth studio album by The Whispers.

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Boogie (genre)

Boogie (sometimes called post-disco) is a rhythm and blues genre of electronic dance music with close ties to the post-disco style, that first emerged in the United States during the late 1970s to mid-1980s.

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Bunny Sigler

Walter "Bunny" Sigler (March 27, 1941 – October 6, 2017) was an American R&B singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer who did extensive work with the team of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, and was instrumental in creating the "Philly Sound" in the early 1970s.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Caravan of Love

"Caravan of Love" is a 1985 R&B hit originally recorded by Isley-Jasper-Isley, the second half of The Isley Brothers' 3 + 3 lineup of the 1970s.

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Carrie Lucas

Carrie Lucas (October 1, 1945) is an American R&B musician, born in Carmel, California.

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Cleopatra Records

Cleopatra Records is a Los Angeles-based independent record label founded in 1992 by entrepreneur and music fan Brian Perera.

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Collage (American band)

Collage was a Los Angeles-based music group, best known for their crossover song "Romeo Where's Juliet?".

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Conscription in the United States

Conscription in the United States, commonly known as the draft, has been employed by the federal government of the United States in five conflicts: the American Revolution, the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, and the Cold War (including both the Korean War and the Vietnam War).

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Dance Club Songs

The Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly chart published exclusively by Billboard in the United States.

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Dick Griffey

Richard Gilbert "Dick" Griffey (November 16, 1938 – September 24, 2010) was an American record producer and music promoter who founded SOLAR Records, an acronym for "Sound of Los Angeles Records".

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EMI-Capitol Special Markets

EMI-Capitol Special Markets were an EMI subsidiary.

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Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is the 15th-largest city in the United States and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Headlights (album)

Headlights is an album by The Whispers released in 1978 on the SOLAR Records label.

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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap Songs is a record chart that ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard.

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Imagination (The Whispers album)

Imagination is the tenth studio album by American R&B/Soul vocal group The Whispers, Released on November 30, 1980 by SOLAR Records.

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Interscope Records

Interscope Records is an American major record label.

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Janus Records

Janus Records was a record label owned by GRT Records, also known as General Recorded Tape.

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Just Gets Better with Time

Just Gets Better with Time is the fourteenth studio album by American R&B/Soul group The Whispers.

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List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart

This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on Billboard magazine's Dance Club Songs chart.

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List of Billboard number-one dance club songs

This is a list of number-one dance hits as recorded by Billboard magazine's Dance Club Songs chart — a weekly national survey of popular songs in U.S. dance clubs.

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Loma Linda, California

Loma Linda is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States, that was incorporated in 1970.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Love for Love

Love for Love is a Restoration comedy written by British playwright William Congreve.

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Love Is Where You Find It

Love Is Where You Find It is the eleventh studio album by American R&B/Soul group the Whispers.

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Make It with You

"Make It with You" is a song written by David Gates and originally recorded by the pop-rock group Bread, of which Gates was a member.

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Missouri

Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States.

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More of the Night

More of the Night is the fifteenth studio album by American R&B/Soul group The Whispers.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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My Girl (The Temptations song)

"My Girl" is a soul music song recorded by the Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) record label.

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My, My, My (Johnny Gill song)

"My, My, My" is a number-one R&B single by American singer-songwriter Johnny Gill.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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Nicholas Caldwell

Nicholas Caldwell (April 5, 1944 – January 5, 2016) was an American singer and musician, and original member of R&B vocal group The Whispers.

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Norman Harris (musician)

Norman Ray Harris (October 14, 1947 – March 20, 1987) was an American guitarist, producer, music arranger and songwriter, closely associated with Philly soul.

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Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum

The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, often referred to as the Oakland Coliseum, is a multi-purpose stadium in Oakland, California, United States, which is home to both the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL).

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Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company, also referred to as Official Charts (previously known as the Chart Information Network (CIN) and The Official UK Charts Company) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, including the UK Singles Chart, the UK Albums Chart, the UK Singles Downloads Chart and the UK Album Downloads Chart, as well as genre-specific and music video charts.

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One for the Money (album)

One for the Money is an album by The Whispers.

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Open Up Your Love

Open Up Your Love is an album by The Whispers.

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Record chart

A record chart, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period of time.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Rhythm and Blues Foundation

The Rhythm and Blues Foundation is an independent American nonprofit organization dedicated to the historical and cultural preservation of rhythm and blues music.

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Rock Steady (The Whispers song)

"Rock Steady" is a single released by American group The Whispers, from their eighteenth studio album Just Gets Better with Time (1987).

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Ronnie Baker

Ronnie Baker, also known as Ron Baker (1947-1990) was a famous record producer, bassist, arranger and songwriter.

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RPM (magazine)

RPM (and later) was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area (popularly referred to as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun estuaries in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.

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Sanctuary Records

Sanctuary Records Group Limited is a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of BMG Rights Management.

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Sly Stone

Sly Stone (born Sylvester Stewart, March 15, 1943, Denton, Texas) is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, most famous for his role as frontman for Sly and the Family Stone, a band that played a critical role in the development of soul, funk, rock, and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s.

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So Good (The Whispers album)

So Good is the thirteenth studio album by American R&B/Soul vocal group The Whispers, Released on July 26, 1984 via SOLAR Records.

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SOLAR Records

SOLAR (acronym for Sound of Los Angeles Records) was an American record label founded in 1977 by Dick Griffey, reconstituted out of Soul Train Records only two years after it was founded with Soul Train television show host and creator Don Cornelius.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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St. Louis

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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The Friends of Distinction

The Friends of Distinction were an American vocal group best known for their late 1960s hits, "Grazing in the Grass", "Love or Let Me Be Lonely", and "Going in Circles".

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The Right Stuff Records

The Right Stuff Records is a reissue record label that was part of EMI, which is now owned by Universal Music Group and is based out of Santa Monica, California.

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The Rippingtons

The Rippingtons are an American contemporary jazz group mainly relating to the genres smooth jazz, jazz fusion, jazz pop, and crossover jazz.

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The Star-Spangled Banner

"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States.

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The Whispers (album)

The Whispers is the ninth studio album by American R&B/Soul vocal group The Whispers, released on October 20, 1979 by SOLAR Records.

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Top 40

In the music industry, the top 40 is the current, 40 most-popular songs in a particular genre.

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Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.

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Twin

Twins are two offspring produced by the same pregnancy.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Unidisc Music

Unidisc Music is one of Canada's largest independent record labels.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Vocal Group Hall of Fame

The Vocal Group Hall of Fame (VGHF) was organized by Tony Butala, also the founder (and now only surviving original member) of the Lettermen, to honor outstanding vocal groups throughout the world.

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Watts, California

Watts, California, was a city of the sixth class that existed in Los Angeles County, California, between 1907 and 1926, when it was consolidated with the City of Los Angeles and became one of the neighborhoods in the southern part of that city.

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Whisper in Your Ear

Whisper in Your Ear is an album by The Whispers released in 1979 on the SOLAR Records label.

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1989 World Series

The 1989 World Series was the 86th edition of Major League Baseball's championship series, and the conclusion of the 1989 Major League Baseball season.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whispers

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