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The Mary Jane Girls were an American girl group formed in 1983, best known for their songs "In My House", "All Night Long", "Candy Man", and their cover version of "Walk Like a Man".[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 65 relations: A Fine Mess (film), All Night Long (Mary Jane Girls song), All-female band, Backing vocalist, Barry White, Billboard (magazine), Billboard 200, Billboard Hot 100, California, Cannabis (drug), Contemporary R&B, Dance Club Songs, Dominatrix, Dutch Charts, Dutch Single Top 100, Forever Your Girl, Funk, Girl group, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, HAL Awards, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, In My House, Irish Recorded Music Association, Irish Singles Chart, Jet (magazine), Kent Music Report, Knocked Out, Lip sync, Los Angeles, Mary J. Blige, Mary Jane (Rick James song), Mary Jane Girls (album), Morris Day, Motown, Music recording certification, National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame, Official Charts Company, Official New Zealand Music Chart, Only Four You, Opposites Attract, Pattie Brooks, Paula Abdul, Post-disco, Prince (musician), Recorded Music NZ, Rick James, RPM (magazine), Soul music, Soul Train, The Four Seasons (band), ... Expand index (15 more) »

  2. 1987 disestablishments in California
  3. American disco girl groups
  4. American post-disco music groups
  5. Dance-pop groups
  6. Musical hoaxes

A Fine Mess (film)

A Fine Mess is a 1986 American comedy film written and directed by Blake Edwards and starring Ted Danson and Howie Mandel.

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All Night Long (Mary Jane Girls song)

"All Night Long" is a song written, arranged, and produced by American musician Rick James for the Mary Jane Girls.

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All-female band

An all-female band is a musical group in popular music that is exclusively composed of female musicians.

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Backing vocalist

A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Barry White

Barry Eugene White (September 12, 1944 – July 4, 2003) was an American singer and songwriter.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Cannabis (drug)

Cannabis, also known as marijuana or weed, among other names, is a non-chemically uniform drug from the cannabis plant.

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Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B (or simply R&B) is a popular music genre that combines rhythm and blues with elements of pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music.

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Dance Club Songs

Dance Club Songs was a chart published weekly between 1976 and 2020 by Billboard magazine.

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Dominatrix

A dominatrix (or dominatrices), or domme, is a woman who takes the dominant role in BDSM activities.

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Dutch Charts

Dutch Charts, GfK Dutch Charts, MegaCharts is a chart company responsible for producing a number of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Single Top 100 and the Album Top 100 are the most known ones.

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Dutch Single Top 100

The Dutch Single Top 100 or Single Top 100 is a Dutch chart, based on official physical single sales, legal downloads and since July 2013 streaming and composed by Dutch Charts.

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Forever Your Girl

Forever Your Girl is the debut studio album by American singer Paula Abdul.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.

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Girl group

A girl group is a music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together.

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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is a 2002 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games.

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HAL Awards

The "Tribute to Heroes And Legends (HAL Awards)" is an annual awards ceremony, established to honor entertainers, sports figures and business executives who have not only achieved success in their areas of expertise, but have utilized their celebrity status to benefit the community, via charitable activities and community service.

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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard.

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In My House

"In My House" is a song produced, written and arranged by American musician Rick James and recorded by his protégées, the Mary Jane Girls, for their second studio album, Only Four You (1985).

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Irish Recorded Music Association

The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) is a non-profit association set up in 1999 to promote certain interests of the music industry in Ireland.

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Irish Singles Chart

The Irish Singles Chart is the Republic of Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) and compiled on their behalf by the Official Charts Company.

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Jet (magazine)

Jet is an American weekly digital magazine focusing on news, culture, and entertainment related to the African-American community.

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Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music historian David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999.

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Knocked Out

"Knocked Out" is the debut single by American singer and dancer Paula Abdul, released on May 4, 1988 by Virgin Records from her debut album, Forever Your Girl (1988).

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Lip sync

Lip sync or lip synch (pronounced, the same as the word sink), short for lip synchronization, is a technical term for matching a speaking or singing person's lip movements with sung or spoken vocals.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Mary J. Blige

Mary Jane Blige (born January 11, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Mary Jane (Rick James song)

"Mary Jane" is a song by American musician Rick James.

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Mary Jane Girls (album)

Mary Jane Girls is the debut studio album by American girl group the Mary Jane Girls, released on April 13, 1983, by Gordy Records.

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Morris Day

Morris E. Day (born December 13, 1957) is an American musician and songwriter.

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Motown

Motown is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame

The National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame is an independent organization whose mission is to educate and to celebrate, preserve, promote, and present rhythm and blues music globally.

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Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company (OCC or Official Charts; previously known as the Chart Information Network, CIN, and the Official UK Charts Company; legally known as the Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various official record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France.

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Official New Zealand Music Chart

The Official New Zealand Music Chart (Te Papa Tātai Waiata Matua o Aotearoa) is the weekly New Zealand top 40 singles and albums charts, issued weekly by Recorded Music NZ (formerly Recording Industry Association of New Zealand).

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Only Four You

Only Four You is the second and final studio album by the American vocal girl group Mary Jane Girls, released on February 14, 1985.

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Opposites Attract

"Opposites Attract" is a song by American singer Paula Abdul from her debut album, Forever Your Girl (1988).

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Pattie Brooks

Pattie Brooks (sometimes credited as Patti Brooks and Patty Brooks) (March 17, 1943-) is an American singer most frequently associated with the disco era.

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Paula Abdul

Paula Julie Abdul (born June 19, 1962) is an American singer, dancer, choreographer, actress, and television personality.

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Post-disco

Post-disco is a term to describe an aftermath in popular music history circa 1979–1986, imprecisely beginning with the backlash against disco music in the United States, leading to civil unrest and a riot in Chicago known as the Disco Demolition Night on July 12, 1979, and indistinctly ending with the mainstream appearance of new wave in 1980.

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Prince (musician)

Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958April 21, 2016) was an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer, and actor.

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Recorded Music NZ

Recorded Music NZ (formerly the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ)) is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell recorded music in New Zealand.

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Rick James

James Ambrose Johnson Jr. (February 1, 1948 – August 6, 2004), better known by his stage name Rick James, was an American singer, songwriter and record producer. Mary Jane Girls and Rick James are Motown artists.

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RPM (magazine)

RPM (and later) was a Canadian music-industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada.

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Soul music

Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Soul Train

Soul Train is an American musical variety television show.

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The Four Seasons (band)

The Four Seasons is an American vocal quartet formed in 1960 in Newark, New Jersey. Mary Jane Girls and The Four Seasons (band) are American soul musical groups and Motown artists.

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The Jenny Jones Show

The Jenny Jones Show is an American first-run syndicated talk show that was hosted by Jenny Jones.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Top 40

In the music industry, the Top 40 is a list of the 40 currently most popular songs in a particular genre.

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Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Luminate.

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Torch song

A torch song is a sentimental love song, typically one in which the singer laments an unrequited or lost love, either where one party is oblivious to the existence of the other, where one party has moved on, or where a romantic affair has affected the relationship.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by sales and audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK singles chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Urban Rapsody

Urban Rapsody is an album by the American funk singer Rick James.

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Val Young

Valaria Marie Young (born June 13, 1958) is an American recording artist from Detroit, Michigan, who achieved success during the 1980s.

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Valley girl

A valley girl is a socioeconomic, linguistic, and youth subcultural stereotype and stock character originating during the 1980s: any materialistic upper-middle-class young woman, associated with unique vocal and California dialect features, from the Los Angeles commuter communities of the San Fernando Valley.

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Vanity 6

Vanity 6 was an American female vocal trio that gained popularity in the early 1980s. Mary Jane Girls and Vanity 6 are American funk musical groups.

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VH1

VH1 (originally an initialism for Video Hits One) is an American Basic Cable television network that launched on January 1, 1985, and is currently owned by the BET Media Group subsidiary of Paramount Global's CBS Entertainment Group based in New York City.

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Virgin Records

Virgin Records is a British record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Walk Like a Man (The Four Seasons song)

"Walk Like a Man" is a song written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio and originally recorded by the Four Seasons.

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Where Are They Now? (American TV series)

Where Are They Now? is a television series on VH1 that featured past celebrities and updated on their current professional and personal status.

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See also

1987 disestablishments in California

American disco girl groups

American post-disco music groups

Dance-pop groups

Musical hoaxes

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jane_Girls

Also known as Joanne McDuffie, The Mary Jane Girls, Water Sisters.

, The Jenny Jones Show, The New York Times, Top 40, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Torch song, UK Albums Chart, UK singles chart, Urban Rapsody, Val Young, Valley girl, Vanity 6, VH1, Virgin Records, Walk Like a Man (The Four Seasons song), Where Are They Now? (American TV series).