Cheryl Lynn appreciation thread

She had another hit???

I always loved her. My favorite was "Star Love."

No one told her disco was over by 1981 and I’m so glad! I was still holding on to that sweet, sweet sound and couldn’t get enough of this song when it came out.

I was 9 when this song came out and I was a huge fan. But I prefer the original version that was released, not the one that has been played for the past 25 or so years with the "zoo-hoos" at the end.

Her duet with Luther Vandross, "If This World Were Mine', is one of my favorite vocal duets of all time. They sang it live on "Soul Train." Fantastic performance.

My brother would get furious with me if I sang Cheryl Lynn songs. He’d punch me in my arm and attempt to body slam me. Sometimes I’d punch him in his face and we’d wrestle until my mother broke it up. He’d call me charming names like “Girl Lynn” or “Hey, faggot!”. Years later he told me that they only played her music in gay discos…now he’s a semi-homeless addict and I just downloaded my favorite Cheryl Lynn songs to my Apple Music playlist on my HP Envy desktop and iPhone, that I bought with money earned from my job as an executive secretary. In my house purchased with my VA home loan. He only uses the VA for rehab and job programs for the indigent ex-servicemen with other than honorable discharges.

See what happens when you listen to Miss Lynn. Thank you, gurl…

R1, hey ugly, you are too ignorant to speak for the world. Go get in the toilet 🚽

Every time I Say Goodbye - Her top 10 r&b hit from 1989

R8, I love this song.

The last time I saw her perform was at Sinbad’s Aruba concert. She was headlining with Jeffrey Osborne and DL fave (?) Stephanie Mills. She had put on weight and was a bit out of breath, but still sounded good.

I love Miss Stephanie Mills too r9

Her song Fidelity produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis was such a jam even if it did sound like Encore.

1983 was my peak club-going period. Didn't miss a single weekend out at the gay clubs.

I don't every recall hearing this "Encore" song that OP posted. It certainly wasn't a standard in any of the clubs I was going to.

Or possibly I did hear it once or twice. and forgot about it. It's a very forgettable song. Doesn't have any kind of hook like Got to be Real or Star Love.

r12 Encore went to the #1 position on the Billboard Hot R&B charts peaking in early 1984. I am 49 yrs old and have known of the song since it came out. I used to listen to r&b radio a lot as a kid.

Sorry you do not enjoy the song. 😣 It is a totally different sound (more Urban) than her disco output. Encore is a Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis production.

r13 I realize "Encore" went to #1 on the charts. Somebody must have been playing it for it to go to the top.

If just wasn't playing in the gay clubs I was going to in North Carolina in 1983. At least not on any king of regular rotation cause I spent many hours on the dance floor in those days and it doesn't sound at all familiar.

R14 nobody said it was playing in the NC gay clubs to begin with.

R3: I love "Shake It Up Tonight"

Another deep cut disco

One of my all time favorite voices! My favorite song is the ballad Hurry Home from the album In the Night. An absolutely beautiful vocal performance. I really miss her.

Some 80s funk

“Gotta crack in the wall an’ a leak in the hall”

Cheryl’s still keeping it real with the disco funk. A friend once told me, in reference to this album cover, that she looked like a grape. He was a bitch.

The only thing I remember about this huge flop was when she tried to come after me on Twitter many years ago.

Sorry, but God don’t like ugly, child!

Go back to your casket, Anita.

What happened with Anita?

Bad divorce.

Love her while she's here. I recall hearing every cut on her debut album.

Classic P town bar The Atlantic House would play Star Love to close the night.

Great song.

I can never remember how "Star Love" goes. I like "Encore." It went to #6 on the Dance charts so it certainly received play. She and Luther sound lovely on "If This World Were Mine" but it's not much of a song.

[quote]Her song Fidelity produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis was such a jam even if it did sound like Encore.

That’s because Jimmy and Terry produced “Encore” too.

It's a shame Jam & Lewis stopped working with singers full time.

She always sounded so joyful.

In a (Red Bull?) Interview online, Jam & Lewis said that Encore was like t heir favorite song. That Terry usually doesn't like synth bass or something, but that even he can't resist this jam!

The drum machine programming alone on this is genius, especially during the break where I've heard Jimmy plaid it live with his fingers on the drum machine

[quote]But I prefer the original version that was released, not the one that has been played for the past 25 or so years with the "zoo-hoos" at the end.

The full version has both an extended break down to bass and piano, and the later the zoo hoos come in. They were always there, even if top 40 radio cuts them off usually.

David Foster co-wrote this with Cheryl and I think (not sure) I read that she somehow got ripped off ;( on the royalties.

Does Monte Moir deserve more credit?

Nice r32. It’s one of my faves too.

Should Lisa Keith have had a better career? She did sort of look like Troop Beverly Hills.

Keep It Hot is a banger

[quote]Does Monte Moir deserve more credit?

Why, is he on it?? I Don't think so.

Monte did write and produce Janet's Pleasure Principle though.

Monte Moir was the B-Team of Jam& Lewis.

[quote]Her song Fidelity produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis was such a jam even if it did sound like Encore.

I didn't know this song but it does seem to use the same EP keyboard pattern and similar bass as Encore, even the drum program is a bit similar.

Encore has more layers of Synths happening though. And the vocals are insane, especially the background vocal arrangement on Encore.

I loved her INSTANT LOVE LP, produced by Luther Vandross…their cover of IF THIS WORLD WERE MINE shimmered.

This cut is fierce…I wonder if Luther did his control freak thing on her….

Luther called her "the diva of CBS." She was on CBS Records.

She had a great voice and so many great songs, why didn't she last longer?

Has Anita Baker ever gotten along with anyone? All the stories about her are that she's a nuclear bitch.

R41 Luther’s Vocals are always great but I find the cover of that song a big zzz.

Anita is so insecure…and there’s no need…she loves to cut down other female singers - Aretha was like that too.

R44 Anita falls asleep while performing

The song itself is a Zzzzz. I think it was only ever a b-side for Marvin & Tammi.

Anita presented Miki Howard with an award and whispered in Miki's ear that it was the only one she was ever going to get.

While you bitter sissies continue to drag my name through the mud, just know that my Vegas residency sold out in minutes!

40+ years in the business, and I'm still relevant. I'm not a flash-in-the-pan "disco" diva like this nonentity you're discussing. I'm still giving the people the best that I got!

Miss Baker, do you still have those braids in your head?

They make you look like a mini-me Predator.

Cheryl adding something special

Lisa Keith worked prominently with JJ & TL and can be heard singing background on many of their songs. A fave is the Jimmy/Terry-produced Herb Alpert track “Making Love in the Rain,” in which she shares singing duties with Janet.

???? R53 ????

[quote] Classic P town bar The Atlantic House would play Star Love to close the night.

What year?

[quote] ???? [R53] ????

R53 must be Anita Baker. She was like "what is the least relevant thing I can say about Cheryl Lynn?"

“Did you like that!? Mmmhmmm” 😂

Lawd, we are 50 plus posts and nobody mentioned her classic, the smash hit "Got To Be Real"

R52: I think half as much Cheryl Lynn would have been enough for this remarkable song. Her voice is extraordinary, and she really completes the mood of the song. But…she goes on and on and on, repeating the same phrase so many times throughout the song that it becomes overwhelming and irritating.

Cheryl Lynn was my favorite on "Charlie's Angels"

Husband stealer...! Oh, wait...

That’s Miss Cheryl Ladd bitch-ass r60

And she inspired the immortal Patti Lahelle series on YouTube.

Got 2B Real was genius, I wish Patti Lahelle would make more episodes.

Did she not succumb to illness?

Did Cheryl Lynn ever play Effie White?

I always thought that she might be a lesbian.

Her 1987 single "New Dress" wasn't a hit only peaking at #34 on the R&B charts but it was sooo good. So funky. Bernadette Cooper (of Klymaxx fame) wrote/produced it. It's heavy on late-80s production but I love late-80s production.

Being discovered on The Gong Show

I can’t believe that they gave her such low marks r69. She deserved better than that.

The gong show was all about the gong

ROFL at Della Reese, "Well, she turned me on!"

I thought that Della liked bones in her fish…

Keep It Hot is a fuckin BANGER

[quote] I thought that Della liked bones in her fish…

She wasn't picky. But was married for most of her adult life.

I loved Encore too, OP.

She managed to stay relevant in that big shift that happened when disco "died" - but a lot of acts just shifted on to a slightly more pop/R&B sound and survived the rampage.

She was one of a number of artists I remember from the early 80s - Evelyn King, SOS Band come immediately to mind - that were able to escape a disco label. In fact, almost everyone was able to make a shift.....except for the Bee Gees and Donna Summer, the kings and queen of disco.

Donna Summer was still able to get hit songs in the post-disco landscape, until the "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" shit killed her career.

R78 True, but it took her a bit longer to really get to She Works Hard For The Money.

I loved Love Is In Control but there seemed to be some resistance to playing it on various stations.

Star love was the song that was actually used in the dance scene in prom night. The producers figured out they couldn’t afford to use the real songs they shot the movie with so they hired local musicians to make similar new songs that were put in post production.

R78 it didn’t kill her career you amoeba

r81 it did kill her career, it never recovered. Her albums all flopped after the early 80s. She did have one hit with SAW but that was it.

R81:

Oh, dear. Oh, dear.

And throw in "amoeba" in its own special-class of language offense: Oh, dear.

Girls! Girls! You're ALL cunts!

Fuck you dumbass bitch. Donna Summer’s career trajectory had zero to do with your imagined quotes. Fuck off and die.

[quote]Donna Summer’s career trajectory had zero to do with your imagined quotes.

It sure did.

Donna always denied she was homophobic, but Giorgio Moroder said in an interview (after Donna had died) that she privately didn't like gay men.

Who was the delicious white boy in boxer shorts in the OP's video? People don't dance like THAT anymore.

ANYWAY......