Wednesday, 14 July 2021

Kym Sims

Kimberly Russell, better known as Kym Sims is an American born (Dec 28) singer. Best known for the UK Top 5 hit, "Too blind to see it".

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Dec 1991    5	Too Blind To See It
Mar 1992   13	Take My Advice
Jun 1992   30	A Little Bit More

What happened next?
Kym Sims released "Turn it up", which reached #6 on the US Dance chart in 2017. In 2019, the release of the "Dance Floor EP" a limited edition 12" bright pink vinyl record with a matching sleeve and mixes from Scott Featherstone, Dez Ford, Lee Pennington, Late Night Dub Addict and Hall North.

Tuesday, 13 July 2021

Kylie

Kylie Minogue or just Kylie is an Australian born (May 28) singer, songwriter and actress. She came to attention in the UK as Charlene in then popular Oz soap, "Neighbours". She left the soap and launched her pop career starting with Little Eva's "The Locomotion" in Australia but it was debut single "I should be lucky" in 1988 that really kicked things off. Into the 1990s where she started with her only UK #1 hit, a cover version of Little Anthony's "Tears on my pillow" from the movie, "The Delinquents". She had three more UK #2 hits in "Better the devil you know", Chairman of Board's "Give me just a little more time" and "Confide in me". She also collaborated with Keith Washington on "If you were with me now" and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on "Where the wild roses grow".

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Jan 1990    1	Tears On My Pillow
May 1990    2	Better The Devil You Know
Nov 1990    4	Step Back In Time
Feb 1991    6	What Do I Have To Do
Jun 1991    6	Shocked
Sep 1991   16	Word Is Out
Nov 1991    4	If You Were With Me Now	(with Keith Washington)
Jan 1992    2	Give Me Just A Little More Time
Apr 1992   11	Finer Feelings
Aug 1992   14	What Kind Of Fool (Heard It All Before)
Nov 1992   20	Celebration
Sep 1994    2	Confide In Me
Nov 1994   11	Put Yourself In My Place
Jul 1995   16	Where Is The Feeling
Oct 1995   11	Where The Wild Roses Grow (with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds)
Sep 1997   22	Some Kind Of Bliss
Dec 1997   14	Did It Again
Mar 1998   14	Breathe	

What happened next?
Kylie had in a revivial in 2001 in no short part to a pair of gold hot pants, which with Kylie was featured in the #1 hit "Spinning around" in 2000. In 2001, she gained international recognition with "Can't get you out if my head", which was #1 in the UK and #7 in the States and US Dance #1 as well.

Monday, 12 July 2021

KWS

KWS are an English dance act consisting of producers Chris King and Winston "Winnie" Williams, and vocalist Delroy St. Joseph. The name comes the first letter of each member's surname. They are best known for taking KC and Sunshine Band's "Please don't go" to #1 on the UK chart for 5 weeks in May 1992. Around same time, a second version by the group Double You, which was #1 in Belgium and Holland and generally big in Europe, stalled at #41 in the UK. KWS' other UK top 10 was a cover of George McCrae's "Rock your baby".

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Apr 1992    1	Please Don't Go / Game Boy
Aug 1992    8	Rock Your Baby
Dec 1992   30	Hold Back The Night (featuring The Trammps)
Jul 1994   21	Ain't Nobody (Loves Me Better) (featuring Gwen Dickey)
Nov 1994   35	The More I Get The More I Want (featuring Teddy Pendergrass)

What happened next?
Not a lot of activity from KWS past the 1990s. In 2004, in an interview it was revealed that Chris King was running a factory making and supplying 12" vinyl to the music industry. He also appeared on Never Mind the Buzzcocks identity parade, said to be renovating classic scooters in 2009.

Sunday, 11 July 2021

Kristine W

Kristine Weitz, better known as Kristine W is an American born (Jun 3) Dance-Pop, House, Hi-NRG and Smooth Jazz singer-songwriter. She has styled herself as the Queen of Dance Music. During the 1990s, she had 3 Hot Dance Club #1 hits with "Feel what you want", "One more try" and "Land of the living". The latter named was also the name of the album containing those 3 hits.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Jun 1994   33	Feel What You Want
Jul 1997   40	Feel What You Want (remix)

What happened next?
Kristine W has to date scored no less than 17 #1s on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart. In December 2016, Billboard magazine listed her among the 100 Top Dance Club Artists of All Time (as 8th) Of late, she has been performing online One more try and at Ivoted festival.

Saturday, 10 July 2021

Kristine Blond

Anne-Kristine Blond better known as Kristine Blond is a Danish born (Apr 16) singer who is best known for spending 1 week at #1 on UK Dance Chart in April 1998.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Apr 1998   22	Love Shy

What happened next?
Kristine Blond reached the UK Top 40 again with "You Make Me Go Oooh" (#35) in 2001. She recorded "A Day Without You", which was the theme tune for the Dutch TV show, Star Academy.
In 2008, Blond released a self-titled album changing musical direction to a more acoustic and non-commercial sound and began to write her own songs.

Friday, 9 July 2021

K-Klass

K-Klass are English house group of producers originally consisting of Carl Thomas and Andy Williams. Best known for UK Top 3 hit, "Rhythm is a mystery".

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Nov 1991    3	Rhythm Is A Mystery
Apr 1992   20	So Right
Nov 1992   32	Don't Stop
Nov 1993   13	Let Me Show You
May 1994   24	What You're Missing

What happened next?
K-Klass have also been involved with producing and remixing tracks by other artists. K-Klass was one of the producers on the Pet Shop Boys album, Bilingual and their remix of "Baby Come On Over" by Samantha Mumba was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2002 in the Best Remix category. They have been credited as producers for Candi Staton, Rebekah Ryan, Rosie Gaines and The Corrs. They have been credited with as remixers for Carleen Anderson, Bobby Brown, Sunscreem, Kylie Minogue, Geri Halliwell, S Club 7 ("Bring It All Back") and M People.
In 2013, the collaboration with Lempo and Japwow on Applique Music, entitled "Brass Attack" was featured on the album Done & Dusted.

Thursday, 8 July 2021

KLF

KLF is an English duo comprising of Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond. KLF are arguably best known for their UK and US Dance chart topper "3am eternal" and their collaboration with legendary country icon Tammy Wynette on Canada Dance chart #1, "Justified and Ancient". Before the 90s, KLF recorded under the name Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (or JAMMs). They changed they name to release a novelty single "Doctorin' the Tardis", which inadvertently put them into the mainstream as that became a UK#1 in 1988. They renamed themselves as KLF (which stood for Kopyright Liberation Front and launched a series of successful singles with an upbeat pop-house sound which they dubbed "Stadium House". Notorious at the height of the popularity decidesd to call time in dramatic style in their appearance on the 1992 BRIT awards, where they fired machine gune blanks into the audience in their performance with Extreme Noise Terror. They dumped a dead sheep at the aftershow party and the announced their departure from the music business and consequently deleted their entire back catalogue. As stated in "3am eternal", The KLF had left the building.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Aug 1990    5	What Time Is Love (featuring The Children of The Revolution)
Jan 1991    1	3AM Eternal (featuring The Children of The Revolution)
May 1991    2	Last Train To Trancentral
Nov 1991   10	It's Grim Up North (as Justified Ancients of Mu Mu)
Dec 1991    2	Justified And Ancient (with Tammy Wynette)
Mar 1992    4	America: What Time Is Love

What happened next?
With The KLF's profits, Drummond and Cauty established the K Foundation and sought to subvert the art world, staging an alternative art award for the worst artist of the year and burning one million pounds sterling. Although Drummond and Cauty remained true to their word of May 1992—the KLF Communications catalogue remains deleted in the UK—they have released a small number of new tracks since then, as the K Foundation, The One World Orchestra and most recently, in 1997, as 2K.
The KLF catalogue remained absent from digital platforms until January 1, 2021, when an 8-track compilation of their 7" hit singles 1988-1991 - Solid State Logik 1 was released on streaming platforms, marking the 1st installment of a series called Samplecity Thru Trancentral.
KLF also published a book, The Manual, and worked on a road movie called The White Room.