No Parking on the Dance Floor | ||||
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Released | June 6, 1983 | |||
Recorded | 1982–1983 | |||
Studio | QCA Recording Studios Fifth Floor Studio (Cincinnati, Ohio) | |||
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Length | 42:07 | |||
Label | SOLAR | |||
Producer | Reggie Calloway | |||
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Singles from No Parking on the Dance Floor | ||||
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AllMusic | [1] |
No Parking on the Dance Floor is an album by American vocal band Midnight Star, released on June 6, 1983. The album contains the singles "Freak-A-Zoid", "Wet My Whistle", "Electricity" and "No Parking (On the Dance Floor)", as well as the seminal quiet storm anthem, "Slow Jam". Of all of the group's albums, it is their most successful, in which it achieved the highest chart placings on the U.S. Billboard 200 and R&B albums charts, as well as in New Zealand, where it peaked at No. 30. [2]
Chart (1983) | Peak position |
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Billboard Pop Albums [3] | 27 |
Billboard Top Soul Albums [3] | 2 |
Year | Single | Chart positions [4] | ||
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US | US R&B | US Dance | ||
1983 | "Freak-A-Zoid" | 66 | 2 | 44 |
"Wet My Whistle" | 61 | 8 | 15 | |
1984 | "No Parking (On the Dance Floor)" | 81 | 43 | 44 |
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