Chicago modern R&B group Subway’s first and solely studio album, Good Occasions, has arrived on streaming for the primary time.
First launched in 1995, the album was a joint launch between Motown and subsidiary Biv 10, led by New Version and Bell Biv Devoe’s Michael Bivens. The R&B empresario first found Subway—made up of brothers Keith Thomas and Trerail Puckett, alongside shut mates Eric McNeal and Roy Jones—in 1992, signing them that very same yr.
Upon its launch, the document didn’t see main mainstream success, though it peaked at No. 4 on Billboard’s Prime Heatseekers chart. However its lead single (and Subway’s chart debut) “This Lil’ Game We Play” grew to become a bona-fide hit for each the band and the Motown-signed woman group it featured, 702. The monitor broke the Billboard Prime 20, and remained on Billboard’s Sizzling R&B Singles charts for a gradual 24 weeks starting in December 1996. Gerald Levert, who collaborated with the likes of Keith Sweat and Johnny Gill in supergroup LSG, co-wrote the monitor with Edwin Nicholas. The track finally earned an RIAA-gold certification.
Subway would by no means launch one other full size, and finally disbanded in 1998. However first they discovered their means right into a function on the soundtrack to the 1996 comedy Kazaam, which starred Shaquille O’Neal as a genie who, after spending eons trapped in a lamp, considers a music profession upon being conjured by a younger boy. Subway’s contribution to the soundtrack, “”I’ll Make Your Goals Come True,” peaked at #64 on Billboard’s Sizzling R&B Singles chart in July of 1996, staying on the chart for 11 weeks.
Hearken to Subway’s Good Occasions now.
