![]() Ĭolor Me Badd performed at the 1991 Smash Hits Poll Winners' Awards in the United Kingdom, winning the Best New Group trophy. The follow up single "I Adore Mi Amor" hit number 1 on the Hot 100 and on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts, " All 4 Love" hit number 1 on the Hot 100, "Thinkin Back" reached number 16 on the Hot 100 and number 31 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and " Slow Motion" reached number 18 on the Hot 100. "I Wanna Sex You Up" was included on the album. It would go on to sell over 6 million copies worldwide and become certified triple-platinum in the US, spending 77 weeks on the Billboard 200, peaking at number 3. Their debut album, C.M.B., was released on July 23, 1991. They were flown out to Los Angeles to work in the studio, recording the album in two or three weeks. At the time, they only had four or five finished songs. Due to the song's popularity, Giant Records wanted Color Me Badd to quickly record an album. The biggest hit on the New Jack City soundtrack, it peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and hit number 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. ![]() ![]() ![]() The song wasn't originally intended to be a single, and had been turned down by other acts including Bell Biv DeVoe, Keith Sweat and Christopher Williams. Freeze offered " I Wanna Sex You Up", which would become Color Me Badd's debut single, released on March 2, 1991. Freeze for a song for Color Me Badd to record for the New Jack City soundtrack, similar to " Do Me!" by Bell Biv DeVoe. 1991–1992: C.M.B.Īfter signing the group, Mills asked producer Dr. Giant Records executive Cassandra Mills heard a tape of the band singing the song, and they signed with Giant on August 11, 1990. They wrote " I Adore Mi Amor" back in Oklahoma City with their producer and friend Hamza Lee. The producers advised that, being a multicultural group, they write a half-English, half-Spanish song. There, Color Me Badd approached producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and started singing for them. In 1990, they bumped into Tony! Toni! Toné!, who got them into the ASCAP Music Awards. They moved to New York City on September 23, 1989. Bon Jovi invited them to be his band's opening act the following night, to perform in front of 20,000 audience members. They waited for him to leave the theater and then sang the 1961 doo-wop hit " Daddy's Home" a cappella for him. One afternoon in 1989, Thornton saw Jon Bon Jovi in a movie theater and called the other band members to join him. and Ronnie Milsap, and opened for Tony! Toni! Toné! in Oklahoma City in 1988. They also sang for Huey Lewis and the News, Sheila E. They auditioned for him and he introduced them to his then-road manager, Adil Bayyan, who would become Color Me Badd's manager and convince them to move to New York City to pursue a record deal. They met Robert Bell of Kool & the Gang on May 27, 1987, when they were in Oklahoma City for a performance. The group came up with a plan to spontaneously audition for any big-name acts playing in Oklahoma City. They first performed together in a school talent show, influenced by doo-wop a cappella groups of the past, such as Sam Cooke, The Temptations and the Four Tops. They aimed to be a vocal group in the vein of New Edition and New Kids on the Block. Watters selected the name, after a horse at the racetrack named Color Me Bad. The group originally formed in 1985 as Take One, but changed their name to Color Me Badd to avoid confusion with an a cappella band named Take 6. They were all members of the school choir. The four met in the mid-1980s while attending Northwest Classen High School in Oklahoma City. Thornton and Abrams became friends in junior high school, and Watters and Calderon became friends in grade school.
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