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First-Time Music Video Compilations on DVD From a
Trio of R&B Greats - The Temptations, Commodores and Cameo - Feature Their Best
From the '80s and '90s
LOS ANGELES, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- No R&B group was classier than The
Temptations; none was more successful in its era than the Commodores, and none
had more style than Cameo. Now DVD compilations for each, featuring five music
videos apiece -- digitally remastered in audio and video, many making their U.S.
DVD debuts -- join the groundbreaking UMe series 20TH CENTURY MASTERS/THE DVD
COLLECTION, the video companion to 20TH CENTURY MASTERS/THE MILLENNIUM
COLLECTION, the most successful single artist series of albums in history. Each
DVD will be released August 3, 2004.
THE BEST OF THE TEMPTATIONS (Motown/UMe) offers the most popular male vocal
and soul group in the world during an era when it could be seen with the advent
of the music video and its influence could be heard via a new generation at the
top of the charts. Included is the video to "Standing On The Top," the group's
1982 collaboration with funkmaster Rick James for their REUNION album that
returned The Temptations to the R&B Top 10 for the first time in seven years.
Along with the video for another R&B Top 10, "I Wonder Who She's Seeing Now"
(1987's TOGETHER AGAIN), are a trio from the '90s: a classic remake of "Time
After Time" (1995's For Lovers Only); "Stay," a #1 Urban Adult Contemporary hit
(1998's PHOENIX RISING), and the Top 40 R&B "I'm Here," produced by R&B Star
JOE, from the Grammy-winning 2000 album EAR-RESISTIBLE.
THE BEST OF COMMODORES (Motown/UMe) straddles the group with and without
Lionel Richie. Motown's best-selling male ensemble of the day, the Commodores
were pop stars with a soul funk foundation. IN THE POCKET, Richie's last album
with the group, spun off the hit "Lady (You Bring Me Up)" (Top 10 pop and R&B)
as well as the mellow "Saturday Night," in 1981. After he exited, replaced by
J.D. Nicholas, the Commodores scored in 1985 with the Grammy- winning #1 R&B/#3
pop "Nightshift," a tribute to legendary singers Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson
from the album of the same name, and the following year with "Goin' To The Bank"
(#2 R&B) and "Take It From Me" (Top 40 R&B) from United.
THE BEST OF CAMEO (Mercury/UMe) finds the "bad boys of black rock and roll"
tearing the roof off pop funk with their biggest hits. There was far more to
Cameo than flat-top haircuts and Jean-Paul Gaultier-designed clothes, with
leader Larry Blackmon's red leather codpiece. Cameo brought hardcore funk and
ferocity to a party groove. The group's DVD collection features the videos to
Cameo's first R&B #1, the title track from 1984's She's Strange; the #2 R&B
title track from 1985's Single Life; the highest charting hit of Cameo's career,
the #1 R&B/Top 10 pop "Word Up" and, also from 1987's Word Up! album, the #1
R&B/Top 30 pop "Candy" and #3 R&B "Back And Forth."
Source: UMe
CONTACT: Press, Sujata Murthy, +1-310-865-7812, or Todd Nakamine,
+1-310-865-7797, or Amy Gardner, +1-310-865-9804, or Radio, Elliot Kendall,
+1-310-865-9852, all of Universal |
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