No Parking on the Dance Floor
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Reception
Released in 1983 containing the hit singles "Freak-A-Zoid," "Wet My Whistle," "Electricity," and "No Parking (On the Dance Floor)No Parking (On The Dance Floor)
"No Parking " is the title track from Midnight Star's fourth and most successful album, No Parking on the Dance Floor. In the US, the song reached number 43 on the R&B chart, number 44 on the dance chart, and number 81 on the Billboard Hot 100.The tune has been sampled by several artists since...
." Also on the album is the classic quiet storm
Quiet storm
Quiet storm is a late-night radio format, featuring soulful slow jams, pioneered in the mid-1970s by then-station-intern Melvin Lindsey at WHUR-FM, in Washington, D.C. Smokey Robinson's like-titled hit single, released in 1975 as the title track to his third solo album, lent its name to the format...
staple, "Slow Jam."
Track listing
- Electricity - (Calloway, Simmons) 6:58
- Night Rider - (Cooper, Gentry, Lipscomb, Simmons, Watson) 4:40
- Feels So Good - (Gant, Lipscomb) 4:23
- Wet My Whistle - (Calloway) 5:06
- No Parking (On the Dance Floor)No Parking (On The Dance Floor)"No Parking " is the title track from Midnight Star's fourth and most successful album, No Parking on the Dance Floor. In the US, the song reached number 43 on the R&B chart, number 44 on the dance chart, and number 81 on the Billboard Hot 100.The tune has been sampled by several artists since...
- (Calloway, Lovelace, Simmons) 4:27 - Freak-A-Zoid - (Calloway, Calloway, Simmons) 8:06
- Slow Jam - (Edmonds, Johnson, Lipscomb, Watson) 4:17
- Playmates - (Lipscomb, Simmons, Watson) 4:10
Charts
| Chart (1983) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Billboard Pop Albums 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... |
27 |
| Billboard Top Soul Albums 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... |
2 |
Singles
| Year | Single | Chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Dance |
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| 1983 | "Freak-A-Zoid" | 66 | 2 | 44 |
| "Wet My Whistle" | 61 | 8 | 15 | |
| 1984 | "No Parking (On the Dance Floor)" | 81 | 43 | 44 |