The Basement Boys

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The Basement Boys are a dance music production team formed in Baltimore, Maryland. The trio of producers Jay Steinhour, Teddy Douglas, and Thommy Davis, all of whom had experience as deejays in the Mid-Atlantic states, began mixing together in 1986. In 1988 they scored a hit single together with "Love Don't Live Here Anymore", a single which hit #25 on the U.S. Dance Club Play charts and #31 on the Maxi Singles charts.^[1] In 1989, Thommy Davis left the group and DJ Spen joined. They would go on to produce artists such as Paula Abdul, Michael Jackson, Erykah Badu, Bob Sinclair, Crystal Waters, and Ultra Naté, and began their own record label, Basement Boys Records, in 1994.^[2] In 2006, the group released an album entitled The Basement Boys Present Mudfoot Jones, which was a collection of remixes of songs by a fictional drummer.

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