Under the Blue Moon

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New Edition chronology
Under the Blue Moon

Tribute album by New Edition
Released	1986
Recorded	1986
Genre	R&B/soul/doo-wop
Length	33:31
Label	MCA
Producer(s)	Bill Dernn, Freddie Perren, Ric Jr. Wyatt
Christmas All Over the World (1985)	Under the Blue Moon (1986)	Heart Break (1988)

Under the Blue Moon is a tribute album released by R&B group New Edition on the MCA label. Their fifth album and fourth with MCA and first album after New Edition member Bobby Brown was voted out of the group, the group was going a transitional phase during this period.

1 Overview
- 1.1 History
- 1.2 Release and reaction
2 Tracklisting
3 Credits

[edit] Overview

[edit] History

According to the group mates in a recent documentary, a reason why New Edition released so many albums between 1984's New Edition and this album, after selling over two million records of New Edition, they discovered they weren't really signed to MCA, the label per se, but to a production company named Jump-Shoot Productions, which also had inked a deal with MCA. Shelving money they earned from touring, they often went back in the studio to renege their deal with Jump-Shoot and eventually re-signed with MCA.

[edit] Release and reaction

The album went gold based off the airplay of their cover of the seminal 1950s hit, "Earth Angel", which was featured off the soundtrack of the first sequel to The Karate Kid. In the video, the boys pursue a hard-to-get woman, who has no idea that the boys singing to her trying in vein to get her attention are actually New Edition until she catches them signing autographs to female seekers and finds out too late as the band heads back on their limo. This would be the group's final album while going over proceedings with MCA, which they would re-sign with. Also by the end of 1986, news were made that teenage R&B heartthrob singer Johnny Gill had been pulled to fill in former member Bobby Brown's fifth spot in the group.