Colonel Abrams ~ How Soon We Forget
Colonel Abrams is a singer and songwriter from Detroit, Michigan.
He was called Colonel at birth, which is his real name.
At ten years of age Colonel and his family relocated to New York during the late Sixties.
Colonel then joined the group Conservative Manor which featured
his brother Morris Abrams . . . . .
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By 1976, he was singing lead vocals for the group 94 East (a band whose line-up featured Prince on guitar) before joining the New Jersey group Surprise Package.
In 1984, he recorded a ballad 'Leave The Message Behind The Door', released on New York's Streetwise label.
The highly popular dancer, 'Music Is The Answer', a forerunner to the later 'house music' sound, was also featured on the same 12".
In 1985 he signed to MCA Records for a debut album 'Colonel Abrams', including 'Trapped' (U.K. Top 5) and 'The Truth' (U.K. Top 75).
The line-up of producers on the album included Cerrone and Sam Dees.
A second album, 'You And Me Equal Us', including 'I'm Not Gonna Let You' (U.K. Top 30) and 'How Soon We Forget' (U.K. Top 75), was released in 1987.
Leaving MCA for the independent Horus label, Colonel released a single, 'Bad Timing', in 1990, produced by Larry Blackmon of Cameo.
Two years later, he recorded a third album entitled 'About Romance' for the Acid Jazz / Scotti Brothers Record label.
The album highlighted a more soulful sound epitomised by the stepper 'Good Things' (a track later to feature on an Expansion Records compilation in the U.K.).