New Version‘s 1985 vacation EP, Christmas All Over the World, is headed to vinyl for the primary time this October.
Launched in December 1985 when the group had been nonetheless youngsters, Christmas All Over The World is New Version’s solely devoted vacation EP. Alongside songs like “Glad Holidays To You” and “The Pleasure of Christmas,” the EP options The Jackson 5’s cowl of “Give Love on Christmas Day.” (New Version’s title, paradoxically, was initially conceived to place its 5 members as a “new version” of the beloved household band.)
Order New Version’s Christmas All Over the World now.
Upon its launch, Christmas All Over The World peaked at No. 45 on the Billboard R&B charts. It additionally marked singer Bobby Brown’s ultimate recording with the group earlier than his 1985 departure to deal with a solo profession.
Fashioned in 1978 in Boston by childhood mates Brown, Michael Bivins, Ricky Bell, Corey Rackney, and Travis Pettus, New Version grew into one of the vital profitable R&B teams of all time. After Pettus left the group and was changed by Ronnie DeVoe, New Version caught their first large break throughout a expertise present at Boston’s Strand Theater. They didn’t clinch first place, however they left native impresario Maurice Starr so blown away he booked them a recording session the subsequent day, which might change into their 1983 debut album Sweet Woman. The album’s title monitor hit No. 1 on each the American and UK singles charts.
The group would proceed to tour collectively nicely into the 2000s, and launched their album One Love in 2002. In 2012, New Version was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award on the Soul Practice Music Awards; all six members of the group got here collectively onstage to gather it.
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