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The mid-80s to mid-90s dance-pop group
Cover Girls was the brainchild of
producer/songwriter Andy "Panda" Triploi and
promoter Sal Abbatiello. Taking cues from the
burgeoning freestyle genre of music, (Which
itself took cues from the classic 80s electro of
acts like Mantronix and Afrika Bambaataa, and
later acted as a disco-inflected progenitor to
the 90s infusion of dance-house.) the duo
recruited a rotating lineup of singers from 1987
to 1996, including Angel Civiles, Caroline
Jackson, Sunshine Wright, Margo Urban,
Evelyn Escalera, and Michelle Valentine.
As a group, The Cover Girls never achieved the
major mainstream success of contemporaries
of their subgenre like Lisa Lisa or Exposé, but
were a constant presence on Billboard's pop
and dance charts. Across four albums, the
group reached multi-platinum levels of sales,
and released 13-charting singles, including
the Top 10 pop hit "We Can't Go Wrong", and
Dance Chart-toppers such as "My Heart Skips
A Beat" and "Show Me." The greatest of their
prolific output is collected here in Greatest
Hits, which catalogues the best from their four
studio releases, and their greatest commercial
successes, including their signature
song "Show Me", which Billboard would
later name one of the 100 Greatest Girl
Group Songs of All Time.
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