Shalamar

Shalamar was an American musical group of the 1970s and 1980s that was originally a disco-driven vehicle created by Soul Train booking agent Dick Griffey. Their first hit was the 1977 Motown production "Uptown Festival", w

Shalamar was an American musical group of the 1970s and 1980s that was originally a disco-driven vehicle created by Soul Train booking agent Dick Griffey. Their first hit was the 1977 Motown production "Uptown Festival", whose success inpired Griffey to replace his sessioneers with vocalists Jody Watley, Jeffrey Daniels, and Howard Hewett (the latter replacing short-time member Geralt Brown) in 1978.

The group had further hits stateside with 1979's "The Second Time Around" and in the UK with 1982's "I Can Make You Feel Good", "A Night To Remember", and "There It Is". The group took a knock when Watley and Daniels left in 1983 but, with Delisa Davis and Micki Free, Shalamar returned to the US Top 20 in 1984 with "Dancing In The Sheets" from Footloose and won a Grammy for "Don't Get Stopped In Beverly Hills" from Beverly Hills Cop in 1985. But when Hewett left in 1986 and was replaced by Sydney Justin, the band faded into obscurity.