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Cat Bear: The Cat Bear! Today’s topic: Shalamar, and now here is Gail Nobles.

GN: Thank you Bear! I’d like to give a shout out to everyone that’s been listening in DJ’s and Radio Personalities, to all the podcasters that’s been listening, and everyone on social media.

Today I’m going to talk to you about Shalamar an R&B soul music vocal group active since the late 1970’s and throughout the 1980’s. They were a dance group on Soul Train. Howard Hewett, Jody Watley, and Jeffrey Daniel.

Shalamar had hits such as “A Night to Remember”, “Make That Move”, and “The Second Time Around” to name a few. One of my favorite songs by Shamalar is Second Time Around. It is a 1979 hit. The song is the first single from their album, Big Fun. Released in August 1979, the single went to number one on the single went to number one on the soul chart and was their most successful hit on the Hot 100 pop chart, reaching number eight in early 1980. The Second Time Around" also went to number one on the disco/dance chart in January 1980. The song was produced by Leon Sylvers III, who cowrote the song with William Shelby.

Many times I’ve heard the song “Second Time Around”. And whenever it was played on the radio, somebody would say: Turn the radio up!” It was the song that you didn’t want to miss. Watching the group Shalamar on television was even better. Somebody would say: They gettin’ down! They singing that song. I might go a second time around and like it better.” That was somebody that paid attention to the lyrics. At first, lyrics were not written down for us to sing along with songs. But now, we can get the lyrics.

At first, videos weren’t seen. We mostly watched the performance of a group on Soul Train or American Bandstand. Now we can see the videos. We can rewind and watch Shalamar just as if we are playing a record as many times as we want to. We can see the group and hear the group.

Times may have changed since the 70’s, but Shalamar’s music still makes us want to jam to their songs in the year of 2022. That’s a long time.

I’m Gail Nobles, and you’re listening to the Cat Bear. I’m gonna leave you now with the Cat Bear’s intro for the topic Shalamar.