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Mass Production

 
Artist: Mass Production
  • Genres: Rhythm & Blues
  • Representative Albums: "Firecrackers: The Best of Mass Production," "Welcome to Our World," "In the Purest Form"
  • Representative Songs: "Firecracker," "Welcome to Our World (Of Merr," "Cosmic Lust"

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Based in Richmond, Virginia, the ten-piece soul and disco group Mass Production had a series of minor R&B hits in the late '70s and early '80s. Mass Production consisted of LeCoy Bryant, Kevin Douglas, James Drumgole, Agnes "Tiny" Kelly, Larry Marshall, Gregory McCoy, Emmanuel Redding, Ricardo Williams, Samuel Williams, and Tyrone Williams. Their best-known song, "Firecracker," hit number four on the R&B charts in the late summer of 1979. The group stayed together for several more years, scoring a string of small hits, before deciding to disband in 1983. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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Mass Production was an American funk/disco musical group, best known for their 1979 hit, "Firecracker". Based in Richmond, Virginia, the ten-piece group had a series of minor R&B hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The song is commonly misattributed to Brass Construction.

Mass Production consisted of Kevin Douglas, James Drumgole, Agnes "Tiny" Kelly, Larry Marshall, Gregory McCoy, Emmanuel Redding, Ricardo Williams, Samuel Williams, and Tyrone Williams. Their best-known songs were, "Firecracker," which hit number four on the R&B chart in the late summer of 1979, and also "Cosmic Lust" and "Shante". The group stayed together for several more years, scoring a string of small hits, before deciding to disband in 1983.

"Firecracker" was sampled by 2 Live Crew in 1989 for their own hit single "Me So Horny", from their album As Nasty As They Wanna Be.

See also

List of funk musicians

Cotillion Records

city Norfolk, VA not Richmond, VA


 
 

 

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