Headlines (Midnight Star album)

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Headlines
Midnight Star - Headlines.png
Studio album by
Released1986
Recorded1985–1986
Studio
  • QCA Recording Studios and Fifth Floor Studio, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Quadrasonic, New York City, New York
Genre
Length45:12
Label
Producer Reggie Calloway [1]
Midnight Star chronology
Planetary Invasion
(1984)
Headlines
(1986)
Midnight Star
(1988)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Headlines is an album by the R&B group Midnight Star, released in 1986. [3] It was the last album to include the Calloway brothers, who left to form Calloway. [3] [4]

Contents

The album peaked at No. 42 on the UK Albums Chart. [5]

Critical reception

The Los Angeles Times wrote that "there isn't enough heavyweight material here ... These kind of 'Headlines' only rate a cursory scan." [6] The Ottawa Citizen thought that "the sultry voice of Belinda Lipscomb on two slow dancers, 'Searching for Love' and 'Stay Here by My Side', make Headlines a complete and solid effort from Midnight Star." [7]

Track listing

  1. "Headlines" – 7:49 (Belinda Lipscomb, Bill Simmons, Bobby Lovelace, Melvin Gentry, Reggie Calloway, Vincent Calloway)
  2. "Midas Touch" – 5:00 (Bo Watson, June Watson-Williams)
  3. "Stay Here by My Side" – 4:40 (Simmons)
  4. "Close to Midnight" – 4:33 (Watson, M. Gentry, Karen Gentry)
  5. "Get Dressed" – 4:58 (Lipscomb, Watson, Watson-Williams, M. Gentry)
  6. "Engine No. 9" – 5:23 (Lovelace, K. Gentry, M. Gentry)
  7. "Close Encounter" – 4:20 (Lipscomb, Simmons, R. Calloway, V. Calloway)
  8. "Dead End" – 4:24 (Lipscomb, Watson, R. Calloway, V. Calloway)
  9. "Searching for Love" – 5:01 (Lipscomb, Watson)

Personnel

Midnight Star

Additional personnel

Charts

Singles

TitleYearChart positions [11]
US US
R&B
US
Dance
"Headlines"198669334
"Midas Touch"427
"Engine No. 9"11

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [12] Gold500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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