No Parking on the Dance Floor

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No Parking on the Dance Floor
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Studio album by
ReleasedJune 6, 1983
Recorded1982–1983
StudioQCA Recording Studios
Fifth Floor Studio
(Cincinnati, Ohio)
Genre
Length42:07
Label SOLAR
Producer Reggie Calloway
Midnight Star chronology
Victory
(1982)
No Parking on the Dance Floor
(1983)
Planetary Invasion
(1984)
Singles from No Parking on the Dance Floor
  1. "Freak-A-Zoid"
    Released: May 15, 1983
  2. "Wet My Whistle"
    Released: August 3, 1983
  3. "No Parking (On the Dance Floor)"
    Released: January 28, 1984
Professional ratings
Review scores
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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]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Electricity" - (Reggie Calloway, Bill Simmons) 6:58
  2. "Night Rider" - (Jeff Cooper, Melvin Gentry, Belinda Lipscomb, B. Simmons, Bo Watson) 4:40
  3. "Feels So Good" - (Kenneth Gant, B. Lipscomb) 4:23
  4. "Wet My Whistle" - (Reggie Calloway) 5:06
  5. "No Parking (On the Dance Floor)" - (Vincent Calloway, Bobby Lovelace, Simmons) 4:27
  6. "Freak-A-Zoid" - (Reggie Calloway, V. Calloway, B. Simmons) 8:06
  7. "Slow Jam" - (Kenneth Edmonds, Lipscomb, B. Watson) 4:17
  8. "Playmates" - (B. Lipscomb, B. Simmons, B. Watson) 4:10

Charts

Chart (1983)Peak
position
Billboard Pop Albums [3] 27
Billboard Top Soul Albums [3] 2

Singles

YearSingleChart positions [4]
US US
R&B
US
Dance
1983"Freak-A-Zoid"66244
"Wet My Whistle"61815
1984"No Parking (On the Dance Floor)"814344

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References

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  2. "Charts.org.nz - Discography Midnight Star". Charts.nz.
  3. 1 2 "Midnight Star US albums chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-10-06.
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