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* Instrumental: "Machine Gun", composed by keyboardist Milan Wiliams, is easily the best known.
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* Instrumentals: "Machine Gun", composed by keyboardist Milan Wiliams, is easily the best known.
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* VocalTagTream: The Commodores at first had numerous lead singers, but they didn't achieve big success until Music/LionelRichie became their lead singer (he would go on to have a very successful solo career when he left the band in 1982).
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* VocalTagTream: VocalTagTeam: The Commodores at first had numerous lead singers, but they didn't achieve big success until Music/LionelRichie became their lead singer (he would go on to have a very successful solo career when he left the band in 1982).
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* ShapedLikeItself: From their song "Sail On": "Good times never felt so good"
* VocalTagTream: The Commodores at first had numerous lead singers, but they didn't achieve big success until Music/LionelRichie became their lead singer (he would go on to have a very successful solo career when he left the band in 1982).
* VocalTagTream: The Commodores at first had numerous lead singers, but they didn't achieve big success until Music/LionelRichie became their lead singer (he would go on to have a very successful solo career when he left the band in 1982).
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!!She's like a trope...house!
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Milan Williams died of cancer in 2006.
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Milan Williams died of cancer in 2006.2006.
!!Discography
* ''Machine Gun'' (1974)
* ''Caught in the Act'' (1975)
* ''Movin' On'' (1975)
* ''Hot on the Tracks'' (1976)
* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Commodores]]'' (1977)
* ''Natural High'' (1978)
* ''Midnight Magic'' (1979)
* ''Heroes'' (1980)
* ''In the Pocket'' (1981)
* ''Commodores 13'' (1983)
* ''Nightshift'' (1985)
* ''United'' (1986)
* ''Rock Solid'' (1988)
* ''No Tricks'' (1993)
!!Principal members (founding members in bold, current in italics)
* '''Andre Callahan''' - drums, vocals, keyboards (1968-70)
* '''Michael Gilbert''' - bass guitar, trumpet (1968-70)
* James Ingram - vocals, drums (1970-86)
* Skyler Jett - vocals, keyboards (1982-84)
* '''''William King''''' - trumpet, guitar, keyboards, vocals (1968-)
* Eugene [=LaPread=] - bass guitar (1970-86)
* Mikael Manley - lead guitar (1995-2005)
* '''Thomas [=McClary=]''' - lead guitar, vocals (1968-83)
* ''James Dean Nicholas'' - vocals, keyboards (1984-)
* ''Walter Orange'' - drums, vocals (1972-)
* Skeldon Reynolds - lead guitar (1983-87)
* '''Music/LionelRichie''' - vocals, keyboards, saxophone (1968-82)
* '''Eugene Ward''' - keyboards (1968-70)
* '''Milan Williams''' - keyboards, rhythm guitar (1968-89; died 2006)
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!!She's like a trope...house!
* AmazonianBeauty: "Brick House" is about attraction to a strong and confident woman. The song even compared her to an Amazon.
* CelebrityElegy: "Night Shift" is this to Music/MarvinGaye and Jackie Wilson.
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!!Discography
* ''Machine Gun'' (1974)
* ''Caught in the Act'' (1975)
* ''Movin' On'' (1975)
* ''Hot on the Tracks'' (1976)
* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Commodores]]'' (1977)
* ''Natural High'' (1978)
* ''Midnight Magic'' (1979)
* ''Heroes'' (1980)
* ''In the Pocket'' (1981)
* ''Commodores 13'' (1983)
* ''Nightshift'' (1985)
* ''United'' (1986)
* ''Rock Solid'' (1988)
* ''No Tricks'' (1993)
!!Principal members (founding members in bold, current in italics)
* '''Andre Callahan''' - drums, vocals, keyboards (1968-70)
* '''Michael Gilbert''' - bass guitar, trumpet (1968-70)
* James Ingram - vocals, drums (1970-86)
* Skyler Jett - vocals, keyboards (1982-84)
* '''''William King''''' - trumpet, guitar, keyboards, vocals (1968-)
* Eugene [=LaPread=] - bass guitar (1970-86)
* Mikael Manley - lead guitar (1995-2005)
* '''Thomas [=McClary=]''' - lead guitar, vocals (1968-83)
* ''James Dean Nicholas'' - vocals, keyboards (1984-)
* ''Walter Orange'' - drums, vocals (1972-)
* Skeldon Reynolds - lead guitar (1983-87)
* '''Music/LionelRichie''' - vocals, keyboards, saxophone (1968-82)
* '''Eugene Ward''' - keyboards (1968-70)
* '''Milan Williams''' - keyboards, rhythm guitar (1968-89; died 2006)
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!!She's like a trope...house!
* AmazonianBeauty: "Brick House" is about attraction to a strong and confident woman. The song even compared her to an Amazon.
* CelebrityElegy: "Night Shift" is this to Music/MarvinGaye and Jackie Wilson.
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'''''Commodores''''' is an American {{Funk}}, {{Jazz}}, and RAndB band founded in 1968. The foundation of the group was the merger of two bands, each formed by freshmen studying at the Tuskegee Institute at the time: The Mystics, consisting of Music/LionelRichie, Thomas [=McClary=], and William A. King; and The Jays, consisting of Andre Callahan, Michael Gilbert, and Milan Williams. Richie was a native of Tuskegee, and got a tennis scholarship to the university.
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'''''Commodores''''' is an American {{Funk}}, {{Jazz}}, and RAndB band founded in 1968. The foundation of the group was the merger of two bands, each formed by freshmen studying at the Tuskegee Institute at the time: The Mystics, consisting of Music/LionelRichie, Thomas [=McClary=], and William A. King; and The Jays, consisting of Andre Callahan, Michael Gilbert, and Milan Williams. Richie was a native of Tuskegee, and got a tennis scholarship to the university.
The group won a freshman talent competition at Tuskegee, and started playing frat parties and area night clubs. An important addition early on was Walter "Clyde" Orange, who would ultimately split lead vocal duties with Richie. After the members graduated from Tuskegee, they were test-marketed. They signed with Creator/{{Motown}} in November 1972, and got their first work opening for Music/TheJacksonFive while working their way up the charts in the mid-1970s.
After scoring some decent hits on their first four albums, they made a double name for themselves in 1977 with the Richie-led R&B standard "Easy" and the Orange-led Funk standard "Brick House" off their [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled]] fifth album. Their next album, ''Natural High'', brought their first Billboard #1 with "Three Times a Lady". They would get a second #1 off the next album, ''Midnight Magic'', with "Still".
Following the 1981 album ''In the Pocket'', which brought the post-disco R&B hit "Lady (You Bring Me Up)", Lionel Richie left the band to start a solo career. The Commodores eventually hired J.D. Nicholas to join Orange at lead vocals. Their biggest post-Richie hit would be the 1985 song "Nightshift", a salute to then-recently-deceased musicians Music/MarvinGaye and Jackie Wilson. It would hit #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and to date is their last Top-40 hit. The eponymous album was their last with Motown.
Other members of the group would eventually depart, and the Commodores recorded their last studio album in 1993. Today, Orange, King, and Nicholas tour under the Commodores name with a five-piece backing band named "The Mean Machine".
Milan Williams died of cancer in 2006.
[[caption-width-right:350:They're easy like Sunday morning]]
'''''Commodores''''' is an American {{Funk}}, {{Jazz}}, and RAndB band founded in 1968. The foundation of the group was the merger of two bands, each formed by freshmen studying at the Tuskegee Institute at the time: The Mystics, consisting of Music/LionelRichie, Thomas [=McClary=], and William A. King; and The Jays, consisting of Andre Callahan, Michael Gilbert, and Milan Williams. Richie was a native of Tuskegee, and got a tennis scholarship to the university.
The group won a freshman talent competition at Tuskegee, and started playing frat parties and area night clubs. An important addition early on was Walter "Clyde" Orange, who would ultimately split lead vocal duties with Richie. After the members graduated from Tuskegee, they were test-marketed. They signed with Creator/{{Motown}} in November 1972, and got their first work opening for Music/TheJacksonFive while working their way up the charts in the mid-1970s.
After scoring some decent hits on their first four albums, they made a double name for themselves in 1977 with the Richie-led R&B standard "Easy" and the Orange-led Funk standard "Brick House" off their [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled]] fifth album. Their next album, ''Natural High'', brought their first Billboard #1 with "Three Times a Lady". They would get a second #1 off the next album, ''Midnight Magic'', with "Still".
Following the 1981 album ''In the Pocket'', which brought the post-disco R&B hit "Lady (You Bring Me Up)", Lionel Richie left the band to start a solo career. The Commodores eventually hired J.D. Nicholas to join Orange at lead vocals. Their biggest post-Richie hit would be the 1985 song "Nightshift", a salute to then-recently-deceased musicians Music/MarvinGaye and Jackie Wilson. It would hit #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and to date is their last Top-40 hit. The eponymous album was their last with Motown.
Other members of the group would eventually depart, and the Commodores recorded their last studio album in 1993. Today, Orange, King, and Nicholas tour under the Commodores name with a five-piece backing band named "The Mean Machine".
Milan Williams died of cancer in 2006.
