Johnny Gill signed to Motown and joined forces with both Jam & Lewis and L.A. Freeze and Public Enemy's Bomb Squad "Poison" and "Do Me!" were both Top 5 smashes. Bell Biv DeVoe's Poison was another New Jack affair featuring production by Dr. Telephone Man," which straddled the lines between traditional vocal soul, '80s synth-pop and hip-hop, were both Top 20 hits.īut Brown couldn't be counted out: joining forces with nascent New Jack swing producers Teddy Riley, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Antonio "L.A." Reid, his sophomore solo album, Don't Be Cruel, was the most successful of any New Edition-related LP, spinning off five Top 10 pop and R&B hits including "My Prerogative," "Roni" and "Every Little Step."īrown's success coincidentally paved the way for a hiatus for New Edition, and in 1990, the five members of the group recorded side project albums. The quintet-vocalists Bobby Brown, Ralph Tresvant, Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins and Ronnie DeVoe-soon broke away from Starr and signed to MCA, where their self-titled sophomore album saw them writing their own material in earnest as well as collaborating with killer producers like Michael Sembello and Ray Parker, Jr. The band's classic-era output for MCA Records, New Edition (1984), All for Love (1985), Heart Break (1988) and the reunion album Home Again (1996), as well as Bobby Brown's Don't Be Cruel (1988), Bell Biv DeVoe's Poison (1990) and 1990 solo albums by members Johnny Gill and Ralph Tresvant, are available on digital providers like iTunes and Spotify, remastered and featuring scores of bonus content.Īssembled in Boston by music impresario Maurice Starr, New Edition burst onto the scene in 1983 with the release of the Jackson 5-for-the-'80s jam "Candy Girl" (a No.
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Ahead of an officially-sanctioned TV biopic of the lives and careers of New Edition, Universal Music Enterprises has digitally expanded four of the group's studio albums plus an additional four spin-off projects.
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