Cheryl Lynn - Shake It Up Tonight (1981)

Lynda Cheryl Smith (born March 11, 1957), better known by her professional name Cheryl Lynn, is a disco, R&B and soul singer best known for her 1978 disco classic, "Got to Be Real".
Discovered on the Gong Show by producer Bob Johnston. Lynn was signed to Columbia after Ahmed Ertegun from Atlantic couldn't make their initial meeting. After Johnston threatened to camp outside David Paich's home if he didn't work with Lynn, Johnston and Paich started on the project after signing with Columbia Records. Lynn released her first and biggest hit, "Got to Be Real," which was penned by Toto keyboardist David Paich, David Foster and Lynn. The song peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #1 on the R&B chart. The success of the single prompted a full scale debut album. Titled Cheryl Lynn, it was produced by Paich. The album sold over a million copies and peaked at #5 on Billboard's R&B albums chart and #23 on Billboard's top 200 album charts. The follow-up single, "Star Love"', also became a hit.


During Lynn's debut album's run, members of the rock group Toto were putting together their debut album. During the production Lynn was asked to provided the female backing vocal on the single, "Georgy Porgy,". The single peaked at #48 on Billboard's Pop charts. Although Toto would go on to chart more than a dozen pop hits throughout the years, it was Lynn's vocal on "Georgy Porgy" that aided the group in charting their only R&B (#18) and Dance (#80) hit on the Billboard charts.

In 1981, Ray Parker, Jr. produced "Shake It Up Tonight", a major club R&B hit from Lynn's third album, In the Night. The following year, Luther Vandross was called on to produced Lynn's fourth album, Instant Love. The 2nd single off the album, "If This World Were Mine" - a 1982 duet with Luther Vandross that covered a Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell song, has become an urban contemporary classic. For her fifth album, Preppie, Lynn produced most of the tracks with the exception of the single "Encore" (#1 R&B hit) - which was written and produced by the Minneapolis funk duo, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis. It became Lynn's second #1 single. In 1989, Lynn released the top 10 single, "Every Time I Try To Say Goodbye", from her eighth album, Whatever It Takes.

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