The group was joined up with producer Leon Sylvers III in 1979, signed with Griffey's SOLAR Records and scored a U.S. million seller with "The Second Time Around" (#1 U.S. R&B, #8 U.S. Pop).
In the UK the group had a string of hits with songs such as "Take That To The Bank" (1978), "I Owe You One" (1980) and 1982's "I Can Make You Feel Good", "A Night to Remember", "There It Is" and "Friends".The album of the same title Friends was also a big seller in the UK in 1982 crossing the genres of pop, disco and soul. The band's record sales in the UK increased dramatically[citation needed] when Daniels demonstrated his body-popping dancing skills on BBC Television's music programme, Top of the Pops, premiering the Moonwalk on television for the first time. Michael Jackson was an ardent fan of the group, in particular, Jeffrey and his dance moves, after watching him for years on the show[citation needed], Soul Train. Jackson and Daniels met after, Jackson took his then 12 year old sister Janet to see Shalamar perform at Disneyland. Jeffrey Daniel went on to teach Jackson the Moonwalk and choreographed Jackson's 'Bad' and 'Smooth Criminal' videos.
The group took a knock when both Watley and Daniels left the band over artistic arguments with the SOLAR record label, shortly after the release of their next album The Look in the spring of 1983.Nonetheless, the album yielded a number of UK hit singles including "Disappearing Act", Dead Giveaway (also a #22 U.S. Pop hit), and "Over And Over". The album itself moved Shalamar into a more new wave/Synthpop direction, with rock guitars to the fore. But The Look generally was not the success that Friends had been the previous year.
With a mid 1980s line-up change with Delisa Davis and Micki Free, Shalamar returned to the U.S. Top 20 in 1984 with "Dancing In The Sheets" from the Footloose soundtrack, peaking at #17, and they won a Grammy for "Don't Get Stopped in Beverly Hills" from Beverly Hills Cop in 1986.
But when Hewett left for a solo career in 1986, and was replaced by Sydney Justin, the band faded into temporary obscurity.The group recorded 1987's Circumstantial Evidence, which was a commercial disappointment, and faded away soon after the release of 1990's Wake Up.
Jody Watley, launched her own successful solo career in 1987 winning The Grammy Award for Best New Artist and releasing decades of hit singles in the Pop, R&B, and Dance genres including "Looking For a New Love" and "Friends" featuring Eric B & Rakim. She rejoined with Hewett and Daniels, plus LL Cool J, on Babyface's 1996 million-selling single "This Is for the Lover in You"; a cover of a hit single from Shalamar's 1980 album Three For Love. Watley was also one of the few American singers to perform on the original Band Aid record recorded by mostly British singers in November 1984. Free was mentioned on Chappelle's Show, under Charlie Murphy's 'True Hollywood Stories' when playing basketball with Prince.
Shalamar reformed in 2005, for the UK television series, Hit Me, Baby, One More Time, with original members Jeffrey Daniels, Howard Hewett, and with new singer Carolyn Griffey (long time friend and fan of the original band, and daughter of Shalamar founder Dick Griffey). They reached the grand final on 22 May 2005, ultimately losing out to Shakin' Stevens.
Shalamar has scored a total of three gold albums in the U.S.; with Big Fun, Three for Love (which eventually went platinum) and Friends.
Also in 1980, the band made a promotion of "The Second Time Around" for the radio station KJR in Seattle, called "The Sonics Came To Play"; dedicated to the Seattle SuperSonics who had won the NBA Championship, the previous year.
Website http://www.shalamar.org/
SHALAMAR - Uptown Festival - 1977
1 . Inky Dinky Wang Dang Doo
2 . Beatifull Night
3 . Uptown Festival
4 . High On Life
5 . Ooh Baby Baby
6 . You Know
7 . Forever Came Today
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SHALAMAR - Disco Garden - 1978
1 . Tossin Turnin & Swingin
2 . Shalamar Disco Gardens
3 . Take That To The Bank
4 . Stay Close To Love
5 . Leave It All Up To Love
6 . Lovely Lady
7 . Cindy Cindy
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SHALAMAR - Big Fun- 1979
1 . Right Time For Us
2 . Take Me To The River
3 . Right In The Socket
4 . Second Time Around
5 . I Owe You One
6 . Let's Find The Time For Love
7 . Girl
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SHALAMAR - Go For It - 1981
1 . Go For It
2 . Appeal
3 . Final Analysis
4 . You've Got Me Running
5 . Sweeter As The Days Go By
6 . Talk To Me
7 . Good Feelings
8 . Rocker
9 . Appeal (12" Mix)
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SHALAMAR - Three for Love - 1981
1 . Full Of Fire
2 . Attention To My Baby
3 . Somewhere There's A Love
4 . Somethings Never Change
5 . Make That Move
6 . This Is For The Lover In You
7 . Work It Out8 . Pop Along Kid
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SHALAMAR - Friends - 1982
1 . A Night To Remember
2 . Don't Try To Change Me
3 . Help Me
4 . On Top Of The World
5 . I Don't Wanna Be The Last To Know
6 . Friends
7 . Playing To Win
8 . I Just Stopped By Because I Had To
9 . There It Is
10 . I Can Make You Feel Good
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SHALAMAR - The Look - 1983
1 . Closer
2 . Dead Giveaway
3 . You Can Count On Me
4 . Right Here
5 . No Limits (The Now Club)
6 . Disappearing Act
7 . Over & Over
8 . You're The One For Me
9 . You Won't Miss Love (Until It's Gone)
10 . The Look
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SHALAMAR - Heartbreak - 1984
1 . Amnesia
2 . Dancing In The Sheets
3 . Whenever You Need Me
4 . Heartbreak
5 . Don't Get Stopped In Beverly Hills
6 . My Girl Loves Me
7 . Melody
8 . Deceiver
9 . Amenesia (Single Version)
10 . Dancing In The Sheets (Maxi)
11 . Dancing In The Sheets (Intru)
12 . My Girl Loves Me (Maxi)
13 . Take That To The Bank (Live)
14 . The Second Time Around (Live)
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SHALAMAR - Circumstantial Evidence - 1987
1 . Circumstancial Evidence
2 . Games
3 . Loves Grown Deeo
4 . Playthang
5 . Female
6 . Born-To-Love
7 . Worth Waitin For
8 . Imaginary Love
9 . Circumstancial Evidence (Extended Version)
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SHALAMAR - Wake Up- 1990
1 . Caution: This Love Is Hot
2 . Wake Up
3 . Why Lead Me On
4 . Groove Talk
5 . All I Wanna Do
6 . Come Together
7 . For Sure
8 . I'll Give U Love
9 . I Want You
10 . Pink Box
11 . Caution: This Love Is Hot! [Night Club Mix]
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SHALAMAR - The very best of Shalamar- 1991
1 . The second time around
2 . A night to remember
3 . I can make you feel good
4 . Take that to the bank
5 . Make that move
6 . Full of fire
7 . There it is
8 . Over and over
9 . Help me
10 . Love's grown deep
11 . Uptown festival (part 1)
12 . My girl loves me
13 . The second time around (remix)
14 . A night to remember (remix)
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SHALAMAR - Hits Collection - 1994
1 . Night to Remember
2 . There It Is
3 . I Can Make You Feel Good
4 . Over and Over
5 . My Girl Loves Me
6 . Amnesia
7 . Leave It All up to Love
8 . Whenever You Need Me
9 . Uptown Festival
10 . Second Time Around
11 . Lovely Lady
12 . Work It Out
13 . Sweeter as the Days Go By
14 . On Top of the World
15 . Don't Try to Change Me
16 . You Won't Miss Love (Until It's Gone)
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SHALAMAR - Ultimate Collection (Solar 30th AnniversaryEdition) - 2006
1 . Dead Giveaway
2 . The Second Time Around
3 . Dancing In The Streets
4 . Uptown Festival (Part 1)
5 . Games
6 . Take That To The Bank
7 . A Night To Remember
8 . Over And Over
9 . Full Of Fire
10 . Sweeter As The Days Go By
11 . Circumstantial Evidence
12 . Make That Move
13 . I Can Make You Feel Good
14 . My Girl Loves Me
15 . Right In The Socket
16 . Amnesia
17 . This Is For The Lover In You
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