Sly Fox was an American new wave music duo, consisting of P-Funk vocalist Gary "Mudbone" Cooper and Michael Camacho. The duo came to prominence in the mid-1980s with their UK/US top 10 hit single "Let's Go All the Way". They released one studio album of the same name which charted within the US Top 40, and a couple of subsequent singles before breaking up.

History

The duo was assembled by record producer Ted Currier, and presented as wholesome, clean-living teen idols. Cooper, a funk session musician, had previously been a vocalist with Parliament-Funkadelic and Bootsy's Rubber Band. Camacho was a protégé of David Bowie. The group's touring band included Cooper's former Rubber Band bandmates Frank "Kash" Waddy (drums), Joel "Razor Sharp" Johnson (keyboards), and Flip Cornett (guitar/bass), along with "Bad Boy Troy" Tipton (guitar), Greg Seay, and current Zapp keyboardist, Gregory Jackson.

Their sole studio album, Let's Go All the Way, was released on Capitol Records in December 1985. The title track became a top ten hit in both the US and UK in 1986.

The duo released three follow-up singles from the album, both of which charted. The freestyle track "Como Tu Te Llama" was a Dance Music/Club Play hit, spending nine weeks on that chart and reaching number 13. "Stay True" managed to dent the Hot 100, peaking at number 94 and "Don't Play with Fire" did not perform as well and sold poorly, but "Let's Go All the Way" proved to be their only lasting international mainstream success, branding them as one-hit wonders.

! style="width:45px;"| <small>US R&B</small><br>

! style="width:45px;"|<small>UK</small><br>

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| rowspan="2"| 1985

| "Let's Go All the Way"

| align=center | 7

| align=center | 57

| align=center | —

| align=center | 3

| align="left" rowspan="5"| Let's Go All the Way

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| "Como Tu Te Llama"

| align=center | ―

| align=center | ―

| align=center | 13

| align=center | —

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| rowspan="2"| 1986

| "Stay True"

| align=center | 94

| align=center | —

| align=center | ―

| align=center | ―

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| "Don't Play with Fire"

| align=center | ―

| align=center | ―

| align=center | ―

| align=center | ―

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| rowspan="1"| 1987

| "Merry-Go-Round"

| align=center | —

| align=center | —

| align=center | —

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| colspan="7" style="text-align:center; font-size:9pt;"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart.

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References

See also

  • Bootsy Collins
  • Maceo Parker