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Post a Comment. The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute now Tuskegee University in , and signed with Motown in November , having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour. The Commodores have sold over 75 million records worldwide. This group is best known for their ballads , such as " Easy " and " Three Times a Lady ", but, for the most part, the group mainly recorded funky , driven dance-floor hits which include " Brick House ","The Bump" "Fancy Dancer", and "Too Hot ta Trot".

The Commodores originally called themselves the Mystics, but wanted to change the name. To choose a new name William King opened a dictionary and randomly picked a word. It reached 24 on the Billboard Hot in Another instrumental, " Cebu " named after an island in the Philippines , later became a staple in the Quiet storm format. Only one such hit from that era scored big, the funk-driven "Brick House" which reached 5 in the U.

After those recordings the group started to move towards softer sound. After years of toiling in the Top Ten, the group finally reached 1 in with the sweet " Three Times a Lady. In Tuskegee, they played local parties and fraternity parties playing mostly cover tunes and some original songs with their original singer, James Ingram another "James Ingram" - not the more famous solo artist Ingram.