Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
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Lisa Lisa and her band Cult Jam were an urban contemporary
band
and one of first freestyle music
groups to emerge from New York City in the 1980s. Cult Jam consisted of guitarist
/bassist
Alex "Spanador" Moseley, and drummer
/keyboardist
Mike Hughes. They were assembled and produced
by Full Force
.
descent and grew up in New York City but attended high school at North Miami Senior High School in North Miami Beach, Fl, where she was raised by her step mother and her father Will Garcia. The group released their debut album
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force
in 1985. She was signed by Columbia Records
and the label leased their single "I Wonder If I Take You Home
" to the European division of CBS Records
for the compilation album Breakdancing. Stateside club DJs began playing the single from the import LP, and thus the U.S. division of CBS, Columbia Records, released the record. It quickly became a chart-topper on Billboard
s Hot Dance/Disco chart. It then crossed over to the R&B chart where it peaked at #6, and then to the pop chart, peaking at #34 in summer 1985. The single eventually went gold
.
"I Wonder If I Take You Home" was followed by another club hit, "Can You Feel the Beat
", which also went to #40 on the R&B chart in late 1985. A sampling of the lyrics of this song would later be used by Nina Sky
for their hit single "Move Ya Body
" in 2004. Their third single, the ballad "All Cried Out", also went gold, going to number #3 R&B and #8 pop in summer 1986. "All Cried Out" was later covered by Allure
in 1997 and was a hit in 1998. Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force went platinum.
Their second album, Spanish Fly
, was a huge success in 1987. It spawned two #1 pop hits, "Head to Toe
" and "Lost in Emotion
", both of which went gold and both of which sported a retro Motown flavor mixed with the Freestyle sound they were known for. "Head to Toe" also parked at #1 R&B for two weeks, and with its strong Mary Wells influence, "Lost in Emotion" did as well. Spanish Fly went platinum, peaking at #7 on the album chart. Other singles from the album were the ballad "Someone to Love Me for Me" b/w "Spanish Fly" (#7 R&B), "Everything Will B-Fine" (#9 R&B).
In between albums they released "Go For Yours," which was featured in the movie Caddyshack II
and is found on its soundtrack exclusively.
1989's Straight to the Sky
was a moderate hit that included the Top 30 pop/#3 R&B single, "Little Jackie Wants to Be a Star", as well as the club hit "Just Git It Together". Two decades later, their hit song would inspire the name of the group Little Jackie
.
Their fourth and final album, Straight Outta Hell's Kitchen
, was less of a commercial success, though it did include a hit with "Let the Beat Hit 'Em
", which reached the pop Top 40 and was a #1 hit on both the R&B and club charts. The group disbanded in 1991. Velez pursued both solo and acting careers, and Moseley and Hughes went on to do other projects.
Lisa Lisa released a solo album called LL77
in 1994, which included the moderate club hit "When I Fell In Love" and the notable single "Skip To My Lu", which hit #38 on the R&B chart. She resurfaced circa 2001 on the Nickelodeon series Taina
, in which she played the title character's mother.
Lisa Lisa is set to release her second solo album on Mass Appeal Entertainment
, just before the summer of 2009. On June 24, Lisa Lisa was at the 2008 BET Awards
presenting an award for the show.
Urban contemporary
Urban contemporary is a music radio format. The term was coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid 1970s. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of hip hop/rap, contemporary R&B, pop, electronica such as dubstep and drum and bass and Caribbean music...
band
Band (music)
In music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform music. The following articles concern types of musical bands:* All-female band* Big band* Boy band* Christian band* Church band* Concert band* Cover band...
and one of first freestyle music
Freestyle music
Freestyle or Latin freestyle, sometimes referred to as Latin hip hop, is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in the early 1980s. Mostly popular during the mid 80s to the early 90s...
groups to emerge from New York City in the 1980s. Cult Jam consisted of guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
/bassist
Bassist
A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...
Alex "Spanador" Moseley, and drummer
Drummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
/keyboardist
Keyboardist
A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...
Mike Hughes. They were assembled and produced
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
by Full Force
Full Force
Full Force is a group of R&B performers and producers from Brooklyn, New York, USA, calling itself the original hip hop vocal band.-Members:*B-Fine - drums and drum programming*Shy Shy - bass guitar...
.
History
Velez is of Puerto RicanPuerto Rican people
A Puerto Rican is a person who was born in Puerto Rico.Puerto Ricans born and raised in the continental United States are also sometimes referred to as Puerto Ricans, although they were not born in Puerto Rico...
descent and grew up in New York City but attended high school at North Miami Senior High School in North Miami Beach, Fl, where she was raised by her step mother and her father Will Garcia. The group released their debut album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force is a 1985 album by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam in collaboration with the band/production team Full Force. It is best known for the lead tracks "I Wonder If I Take You Home", "Can You Feel the Beat," and "All Cried Out." The third of these hits also features Full...
in 1985. She was signed by Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
and the label leased their single "I Wonder If I Take You Home
I Wonder If I Take You Home
"I Wonder If I Take You Home" is a song recorded in 1984 and released as a single in 1985 by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam with Full Force. Never originally released on Personal Records, the then-obscure demo was discovered in a tape "discard bin" at Personal Records by producer/writer/artist Kenny Beck ,...
" to the European division of CBS Records
CBS Records
CBS Records is a record label founded by CBS Corporation in 2006 to take advantage of music from its entertainment properties owned by CBS Television Studios. The initial label roster consisted of only three artists; rock band Señor Happy and singer/songwriters Will Dailey and P.J...
for the compilation album Breakdancing. Stateside club DJs began playing the single from the import LP, and thus the U.S. division of CBS, Columbia Records, released the record. It quickly became a chart-topper on Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
s Hot Dance/Disco chart. It then crossed over to the R&B chart where it peaked at #6, and then to the pop chart, peaking at #34 in summer 1985. The single eventually went gold
Music recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...
.
"I Wonder If I Take You Home" was followed by another club hit, "Can You Feel the Beat
Can You Feel the Beat
"Can You Feel the Beat" is a song recorded by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam and Full Force from their 1985 album Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force. The song hit number 69 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 40 on the R&B singles chart in December 1985...
", which also went to #40 on the R&B chart in late 1985. A sampling of the lyrics of this song would later be used by Nina Sky
Nina Sky
Nina Sky is an American musical duo composed of identical twins Nicole and Natalie Albino .-Early life and career:Albino's parents moved to New York from Puerto Rico and were divorced when the girls were younger...
for their hit single "Move Ya Body
Move Ya Body
"Move Ya Body" is the debut single from Nina Sky's debut album Nina Sky, which was released in 2004. The song features rapper Jabba. There is a remix to the song with Jamaican deejay Vybz Kartel. The song ranked at #250 on Blender's 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born.-Song information:The song...
" in 2004. Their third single, the ballad "All Cried Out", also went gold, going to number #3 R&B and #8 pop in summer 1986. "All Cried Out" was later covered by Allure
Allure (group)
Allure is a New York-based R&B girl group that formed in the early 1990s as a quartet, now a trio. Original members were Alia Davis, Linnie Belcher, Lalisha McClean and Akissa Mendez.-Career:...
in 1997 and was a hit in 1998. Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force went platinum.
Their second album, Spanish Fly
Spanish Fly (album)
-Certifications:-Personnel:*Lisa Lisa : Vocals*Michael Hughes: Congas, Timbales, Talking*Spanador: Guitars, Bass, Keyboards*Full Force: Performer*Arranged & Produced By Full Force*Engineered By Glenn Rosenstein...
, was a huge success in 1987. It spawned two #1 pop hits, "Head to Toe
Head to Toe
"Head to Toe" is a song recorded by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam that appeared on their 1987 album Spanish Fly. The song hit number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 on June 20, 1987 and Hot Black Singles charts on May 30 of that year. In Canada, the song topped the RPM 100 national singles chart on July...
" and "Lost in Emotion
Lost in Emotion
"Lost in Emotion" is a song recorded by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam that appeared on their 1987 album Spanish Fly. The song hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 17, 1987. The song was their second number-one single...
", both of which went gold and both of which sported a retro Motown flavor mixed with the Freestyle sound they were known for. "Head to Toe" also parked at #1 R&B for two weeks, and with its strong Mary Wells influence, "Lost in Emotion" did as well. Spanish Fly went platinum, peaking at #7 on the album chart. Other singles from the album were the ballad "Someone to Love Me for Me" b/w "Spanish Fly" (#7 R&B), "Everything Will B-Fine" (#9 R&B).
In between albums they released "Go For Yours," which was featured in the movie Caddyshack II
Caddyshack II
Caddyshack II is the 1988 sequel to the 1980 golf comedy film Caddyshack. The film stars Jackie Mason, Dan Aykroyd, Robert Stack, Dyan Cannon, Chevy Chase, Jonathan Silverman, and Jessica Lundy.-Plot:...
and is found on its soundtrack exclusively.
1989's Straight to the Sky
Straight to the Sky
Straight to the Sky is a 1989 album by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam. It is best known for the lead track "Little Jackie Wants to Be a Star". Follow up singles were "Just Git It Together" and "Kiss Your Tears Away".-Track listing:...
was a moderate hit that included the Top 30 pop/#3 R&B single, "Little Jackie Wants to Be a Star", as well as the club hit "Just Git It Together". Two decades later, their hit song would inspire the name of the group Little Jackie
Little Jackie
Little Jackie is an American band consisting of Imani Coppola and Adam Pallin. Little Jackie, which derives its name from the 1989 hit song "Little Jackie Wants to Be a Star" by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, released a hit single in 2008 called "The World Should Revolve Around Me" from their debut album...
.
Their fourth and final album, Straight Outta Hell's Kitchen
Straight Outta Hell's Kitchen
Straight Outta Hell's Kitchen is a 1991 album by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam. It is best known for the lead track "Let the Beat Hit 'Em" which hit #1 on the Billboard R&B and Dance charts. The only other single released was the ballad "Where Were You When I Needed You". It is named for the Manhattan...
, was less of a commercial success, though it did include a hit with "Let the Beat Hit 'Em
Let the Beat Hit 'Em
"Let the Beat Hit 'Em" is the title of a number-one R&B single by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam from their 1991 album Straight Outta Hell's Kitchen. The song spent one week at number-one on the US R&B chart , reaching #37 on the Billboard Hot 100. One year later, Dutch duo produced a 3:40 long remix...
", which reached the pop Top 40 and was a #1 hit on both the R&B and club charts. The group disbanded in 1991. Velez pursued both solo and acting careers, and Moseley and Hughes went on to do other projects.
Lisa Lisa released a solo album called LL77
LL77
LL77 is the debut 1994 album by Lisa Lisa. It is the first solo album from Lisa Lisa without her band, Cult Jam.-Track listing:#Why Can't Lovers#I'm Open#Great Pretender, The#Skip To My Lu#Covers#Mr. Jimmy#Knockin' Down The Walls...
in 1994, which included the moderate club hit "When I Fell In Love" and the notable single "Skip To My Lu", which hit #38 on the R&B chart. She resurfaced circa 2001 on the Nickelodeon series Taina
Taina (TV series)
Taina is an American sitcom that aired on Nickelodeon and was one of the last live-action comedy shows taped at Nickelodeon Studios but later moved to the Nickelodeon On Sunset in Hollywood, for its second season. The show aired from January 14, 2001 to May 11, 2002.-Premise:Taina Morales is a...
, in which she played the title character's mother.
Lisa Lisa is set to release her second solo album on Mass Appeal Entertainment
Mass Appeal Entertainment
Mass Appeal Entertainment is an American record label owned and operated by producer/writer Marcus "DL" Siskind...
, just before the summer of 2009. On June 24, Lisa Lisa was at the 2008 BET Awards
BET Awards
The BET Awards were established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Television network to celebrate African Americans and other minorities in music, acting, sports, and other fields of entertainment over the past year. The awards are presented annually and broadcast live on BET...
presenting an award for the show.
Studio albums
| Year | Album | Chart Positions | US Certifications |
Record Label | ||||
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| US Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
US R&B Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999... |
UK UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
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| 1985 | Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force is a 1985 album by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam in collaboration with the band/production team Full Force. It is best known for the lead tracks "I Wonder If I Take You Home", "Can You Feel the Beat," and "All Cried Out." The third of these hits also features Full... |
52 | 16 | 96 | Platinum | Columbia Columbia Records Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company... |
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| 1987 | Spanish Fly Spanish Fly (album) -Certifications:-Personnel:*Lisa Lisa : Vocals*Michael Hughes: Congas, Timbales, Talking*Spanador: Guitars, Bass, Keyboards*Full Force: Performer*Arranged & Produced By Full Force*Engineered By Glenn Rosenstein... |
7 | 7 | — | Platinum | |||
| 1989 | Straight to the Sky Straight to the Sky Straight to the Sky is a 1989 album by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam. It is best known for the lead track "Little Jackie Wants to Be a Star". Follow up singles were "Just Git It Together" and "Kiss Your Tears Away".-Track listing:... |
77 | 18 | — | — | |||
| 1991 | Straight Outta Hell's Kitchen Straight Outta Hell's Kitchen Straight Outta Hell's Kitchen is a 1991 album by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam. It is best known for the lead track "Let the Beat Hit 'Em" which hit #1 on the Billboard R&B and Dance charts. The only other single released was the ballad "Where Were You When I Needed You". It is named for the Manhattan... |
133 | 29 | — | — | |||
| 1994 | LL77 LL77 LL77 is the debut 1994 album by Lisa Lisa. It is the first solo album from Lisa Lisa without her band, Cult Jam.-Track listing:#Why Can't Lovers#I'm Open#Great Pretender, The#Skip To My Lu#Covers#Mr. Jimmy#Knockin' Down The Walls... (credited as Lisa Lisa) |
— | — | — | — | Pendulum | ||
| 2009 | Life 'n Love (credited as Lisa Lisa) | — | — | — | — | Mass Appeal Mass Appeal Entertainment Mass Appeal Entertainment is an American record label owned and operated by producer/writer Marcus "DL" Siskind... |
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| "—" denotes the album failed to chart or was not certified | ||||||||
Compilation albums
| Year | Album | Chart Positions | Record Label | |||||
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| US Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
US R&B Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999... |
UK UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
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| 1995 | Head to Toe | — | — | — | Sony Music Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation.... |
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| Lisa Lisa and Friends | — | — | — | |||||
| 1996 | Past, Present & Future | — | — | — | Thump Thump Records Thump Records is a record label specialized in freestyle music, Latin music and hip hop music. They are probably best known for their rap and R&B Old School compilations, as well as their Low Rider compilations.-Artists on Thump Records:* Adolfo... |
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| 1997 | Super Hits | — | — | — | Sony Music | |||
| 2010 | Playlist: The Very Best of Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force | — | — | — | Columbia/Legacy Legacy Recordings Legacy Recordings is Sony Music Entertainment's catalog division. It was founded in 1990 by CBS Records under the leadership of Jerry Shulman, Richard Bauer, Gary Pacheco and Amy Herot to handle reissues of recordings from the vast catalogues of Columbia Records, Epic Records and associated... |
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| "—" denotes the album failed to chart | ||||||||
Singles
| Year | Single | Chart positions | ||||
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| US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
US R&B Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,... |
US A/C |
US Dance |
UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
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| 1985 | "I Wonder If I Take You Home I Wonder If I Take You Home "I Wonder If I Take You Home" is a song recorded in 1984 and released as a single in 1985 by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam with Full Force. Never originally released on Personal Records, the then-obscure demo was discovered in a tape "discard bin" at Personal Records by producer/writer/artist Kenny Beck ,... " (with Full Force Full Force Full Force is a group of R&B performers and producers from Brooklyn, New York, USA, calling itself the original hip hop vocal band.-Members:*B-Fine - drums and drum programming*Shy Shy - bass guitar... ) |
34 | 6 | — | 1 | 12 |
| "Can You Feel the Beat Can You Feel the Beat "Can You Feel the Beat" is a song recorded by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam and Full Force from their 1985 album Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force. The song hit number 69 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 40 on the R&B singles chart in December 1985... " (with Full Force) |
69 | 40 | — | 6 | 97 | |
| 1986 | "All Cried Out All Cried Out (Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam song) "All Cried Out" is a song recorded by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam that appeared on their 1985 album Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force. The song hit number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in October 1986. The song was a major hit on the R&B singles chart, peaking at number three... " (with Full Force feat. Paul Anthony & Bow Legged Lou) |
8 | 3 | — | — | — |
| 1987 | "Head to Toe Head to Toe "Head to Toe" is a song recorded by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam that appeared on their 1987 album Spanish Fly. The song hit number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 on June 20, 1987 and Hot Black Singles charts on May 30 of that year. In Canada, the song topped the RPM 100 national singles chart on July... " |
1 | 1 | — | 1 | 82 |
| "Lost in Emotion Lost in Emotion "Lost in Emotion" is a song recorded by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam that appeared on their 1987 album Spanish Fly. The song hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 17, 1987. The song was their second number-one single... " |
1 | 1 | 27 | 8 | 58 | |
| "Someone to Love Me for Me Someone to Love Me for Me "Someone to Love Me for Me" is a song recorded by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam and Full Force that appeared on their 1987 album Spanish Fly. The song hit number 78 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 7 on the R&B chart in December 1987.-Charts:... " (feat. Full Force) |
78 | 7 | — | — | — | |
| 1988 | "Everything Will B-Fine Everything Will B-Fine "Everything Will B-Fine" is a song recorded by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam from their 1987 album Spanish Fly. The song hit number nine on the Billboard R&B Singles chart and number twenty-two on the Dance chart. The song was their first not to chart on the Billboard Hot 100.-Charts:... " |
— | 9 | — | 22 | — |
| "Go for Yours Go for Yours "Go for Yours" is a song recorded by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam that appeared on the 1988 soundtrack to the film, Caddyshack II. As a single, it reached number 19 on the Billboard R&B singles chart in 1988.-Charts:... " (with Full Force) |
— | 19 | — | — | — | |
| 1989 | "Little Jackie Wants to Be a Star Little Jackie Wants to Be a Star "Little Jackie Wants to Be a Star" is a song recorded by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam that appeared on their 1989 album Straight to the Sky. Released as a single, it reached number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number three on the R&B chart. In the UK, it peaked at number 90.-Charts:... " |
29 | 3 | — | — | 90 |
| "Just Git It Together Just Git It Together "Just Git It Together" is a song recorded by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam from their 1989 album Straight to the Sky. It reached number sixteen on the Billboard R&B singles chart and number seven on the Dance chart.-Charts:... " |
— | 16 | — | 7 | — | |
| "Kiss Your Tears Away" | — | 26 | — | — | — | |
| 1991 | "Let the Beat Hit 'Em Let the Beat Hit 'Em "Let the Beat Hit 'Em" is the title of a number-one R&B single by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam from their 1991 album Straight Outta Hell's Kitchen. The song spent one week at number-one on the US R&B chart , reaching #37 on the Billboard Hot 100. One year later, Dutch duo produced a 3:40 long remix... " |
37 | 1 | — | 1 | 17 |
| "Let the Beat Hit 'Em (Part 2)" | — | — | — | — | 49 | |
| "Where Were You When I Needed You" | — | 65 | — | — | — | |
| 1993 | "Skip to My Lu" (credited as Lisa Lisa) | 105 | 38 | — | — | 34 |
| 1994 | "When I Fell in Love" (credited as Lisa Lisa) | — | 96 | — | 28 | — |
| "—" denotes the single failed to chart | ||||||