Mass Production (band)

Mass Production (band)

Mass Production was an American funk/disco musical group, best known for their 1979 hit, "Firecracker." Based in Norfolk, Virginia, the ten-piece group had a series of minor R&B hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s. "Firecracker" is commonly misattributed to the similarly named (and sonically/stylistically similar) band Brass Construction.

The band consisted of Kevin Douglas (bass and vocals), James Drumgole (trumpet, flugelhorn, and vocals), Agnes "Tiny" Kelly (lead vocals, vocoder; later replaced by Dee (DeeDee) Henderson), Larry Marshall (lead vocals, percussion[1]), Gregory McCoy (saxophone), Emmanuel Redding (percussion), Ricardo Williams (lead vocals, drums, percussion), Tyrone Williams (keyboards), Rodney Phelps (lead guitar, keyboards), and LeCoy Bryant (rhythm guitar, vocals).[2] An eleventh member, Samuel Williams joined in the early 1980s.

In addition to "Firecracker," which hit number four on the R&B chart in the late summer of 1979, other hits by the band include "Cosmic Lust", "Groove Me", and "Shante." The group stayed together for several more years, scoring a string of small hits, before deciding to disband in 1983.

"Firecracker" was sampled by 2 Live Crew in 1989 for their own hit single "Me So Horny", from their album As Nasty As They Wanna Be.

Contents

Discography

Studio albums

  • Welcome to Our World (1976)
  • Believe (1977)
  • Three Miles High (1978)
  • In the Purest Form (1979)
  • Massterpiece (1980)
  • Turn Up the Music (1981)
  • In a City Groove (1982)
  • '83 (1983)

Compilation album

  • Firecrackers: The Best of Mass Production (1996)[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Mass Production bio @soulwalking.co.uk Accessed 1-10-2010
  2. ^ More Extensive Band Biography Accessed 1-10-2010
  3. ^ Mass Production discography @Discogs.com Accessed 1-10-2010

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