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TOTO "Super Hits"U.S. Release : COLM85347 STOCK STATUS: IN STOCK - ships in 1 day |
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TOTO "Super Hits"U.S. Release : COLM85347 STOCK STATUS: IN STOCK - ships in 1 day |
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| The experienced Los Angeles session team of Bobby Kimball, Steve Lukather, David Paich, Steve Porcaro, David Hungate and Jeff Porcaro decided in 1978 to begin functioning in their own right after years of blithe dedication to the music of others on tour and disc. A couple of Toto albums found over a million buyers each but, overall, this rather faceless group met moderate success with moderate records - penned mainly by Paich - on which polished, close-milked vocal harmonies floated effortlessly over layers of treated sound. Toto (1978) was attended by a smash hit in "Hold The Line" (US number 5, UK number 14), but the band's most commercial period was 1982-3 when the Grammy award-winning Toto IV generated two international hits with the atmospheric "Africa" (US number 1, UK number 3) and "Rosanna" (US number 2, UK number 12), as well as the number 10 single, "I Won't Hold You Back", which also won Grammys for Record Of The Year, Best Pop Vocal Performance and Best Instrumental Arrangement. The following year, Kimball and Hungate were replaced by, respectively, Fergie Frederikson and Mike Porcaro. Sales of Isolation and the group's soundtrack to the science fiction film 'DUNE' were poor, but some lost ground was regained when it became known that Toto were responsible for the backing track of USA For Africa 's single "We Are The World". With a new lead singer in Joseph Williams, the group reached number 11 in America with "I'll Be Over You", a composition by Lukather and Randy Goodrun from 1986's Fahrenheit. Two years later "Pamela", produced to the expected slick standards by Earth, Wind And Fire 's George Massenburg and Little Feat 's Bill Payne, reached number 22 in America. By then, Steve Porcaro had returned to employment in the studios from which Toto had emerged. In 1990, Jean-Michel Byron briefly replaced Williams, before Lukather became the group's vocalist. Jeff Porcaro died in 1992 after a heart attack caused by an allergic reaction to pesticide. His replacement on subsequent UK dates was British session drummer Simon Phillips. 1995's blues-tinged Tambu attempted to steer the group away from their mainstream pop/rock sound. The most recent release is "Mindfields" (1999). | |
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