P.M. Dawn
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| P.M. Dawn | ||
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 Cover for P.M. Dawn's 1998 album Dearest Christian...
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| Background information | ||
| Origin | Jersey City, New Jersey, USA | |
| Genre(s) | R&B, hip hop | |
| Years active | 1988 - Present | |
| Label(s) | Gee Street, V2 | |
| Website | PMDawnLovesYou.com | |
| Members | ||
| Prince Be Dr. Giggles |
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| Former members | ||
| DJ Minute Mix | ||
P.M. Dawn are a hip hop / R&B musical group. They were formed by brothers Attrell Cordes (aka Prince Be, sometimes credited as Prince Be the Nocturnal) and Jarrett Cordes (aka DJ Minute Mix), in 1988 in Jersey City, New Jersey.
The Cordes brothers lost their father, who died of pneumonia when they were children. Further family tragedy saw their baby brother Duncan drowned at the age of two. The two elder brothers were raised by their mother, and their stepfather George Brown, who was a founding member of Kool & the Gang.
Their 1991 début album Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience, featured the international hit "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss", which sampled the Spandau Ballet song "True" and Eric B and Rakim's "Paid In Full", and reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week on the week of November 30, 1991; and also reached #3 in the United Kingdom. The follow-up single "Paper Doll" peaked at #28 in early 1992. With the success of their début album, the band went on a world tour.
P.M. Dawn's 1993 follow-up album The Bliss Album...? (Vibrations of Love and the Anger and the Ponderance of Life and Existence) contained the Billboard top-10 single "Looking Through Patient Eyes", in the spring of 1993 (featuring backing vocals by Cathy Dennis and sampling George Michael's hit "Father Figure"), and their other hit single (top 5) "I'd Die Without You" was also featured in the 1992 comedy film, Boomerang soundtrack. They also recorded the duet, "More Than Likely" with Boy George. Their 1995 album Jesus Wept was less successful: the album's highest charting single was "Downtown Venus", which reached #48 on the Billboard charts.
In 1998 their fourth album, Dearest Christian, I'm So Very Sorry For Bringing You Here, Love Dad was less successful again, with the album's single, "Being So Not For You (I Had No Right)" being only a minor chart hit.
In 2000 they released a greatest hits album, The Best of P.M. Dawn, a release of previous tracks plus new singles.
In June 2005, P.M. Dawn won the fifth round of NBC's hit TV show Hit Me Baby One More Time, performing "Set Adrift On Memory Bliss", and covered Puddle of Mudd's "Blurry", designating their $20,000 charitable prize to go to Child Diabetes research.
2005 also marked the year of some major changes within P.M. Dawn. Member (and brother) J.C. decided to leave P.M. Dawn to pursue an interest in a solo career. This led to the introduction of Dr. Giggles. Dr. Giggles, like J.C., is also family and a natural addition to P.M. Dawn.
In June 2006, P.M. Dawn kicked off a summer tour called "Summer of Bliss, 2006." They will be playing intimate venues across the country in an effort to promote a new album titled "P.M. Dawn Loves You", which will be released in 2007. Also look for a Live Album to be recorded in early 2007.
Contents |
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
[edit] Compilations
| Year | Title | Label | 2000 | The Best of P.M. Dawn | V2 Records |
[edit] Singles (Commercial & Promotional)
- Ode To A Forgetful Mind (1989)
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- A Watcher's Point Of View (1991) UK #36
- Set Adrift On Memory Bliss (1991) US #1, UK #3
- Comatose (1991)
- Paper Doll (1991) US #28, UK #49
- Reality Used To Be A Friend Of Mine (1991/1992) UK #29
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- I'd Die Without You (1992) US #3, UK #30
- Looking Through Patient Eyes (1993) US #6, UK #11
- Plastic (1993)
- The Ways Of The Wind (1993) US #54
- When Midnight Sighs (1993)
- More Than Likely (1993) UK #40
- Norwegian Wood (1993)
- The Nocturnal Is In The House (1993)
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- You Got Me Floating (1993)
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- Downtown Venus (1995) US #48, UK #58
- Sometimes I Miss You So Much (1995) US #95, UK #58
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- Gotta Be...Movin' On Up (1998) UK #68
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- I Had No Right (1998) US #44
- Faith In You (1998)
- Art Deco Halos (1998)
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- Night In The City (2000)
- Amnesia (2002)
[edit] Sampling Case
In 1999, in the case of Batiste v. Island Records, Inc., PM Dawn was sued for sampling David Batiste and The Gladiators. Batiste claimed that PM Dawn's song, "So On and So On" used unauthorized samples from his song, "Funky Soul". The 5th Circuit Federal Appellate Court found: The Batistes point to no evidence in the record demonstrating that consumers were confused or deceived by either the use of a digital sample of "Funky Soul" in "So On" or the attribution to "David Batiste & The Gladiators" as a co-author of "So On." The Batistes' claim that Paul and Michael Batiste were improperly excluded from the liner notes accompanying the album also fails to suggest that consumers were confused, especially because the liner notes do credit the name of the band in which both Paul and Michael Batiste performed. [1]
