Stacy Lattisaw

Career When she was 11 years old, singer/songwriter Frederick Knight attempted to sign Lattisaw to his production company, writing the song "Ring My Bell" for her as a teenybopper song about kids talking on the telephone. When Lattisaw signed with a different label, Anita Ward was asked to sing it instead (with some rewriting), and it became Ward's hit.

Lattisaw recorded her first album for Cotillion Records at the age of 12 in 1979, under the direction of record producer Van McCoy.

During the 1980s and early 1990s, Lattisaw had several US R&B hit singles, and a 1980 top 3 hit in the UK with her song "Jump to the Beat". She had three moderate hits on the US Hot 100 chart; "Let Me Be Your Angel" (No. 21), "Love on a Two-Way Street" (No. 26), and "Miracles" (No. 40).

1979

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1980

44 9 1981

46 8 1982

55 11 1983

160 26 1984

139 27 1985

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131 36

1988

153 24 1989

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Compilation albums The Very Best of Stacy Lattisaw (1998, Rhino Entertainment) Stacey Lattisaw - The Cotillion Years 1979 - 1985 (2021, Robinsongs)

Singles Year Title Peak chart positions Album US USDan UK IRL 1979 "When You're Young and in Love" — 91 — — — — Young and in Love1980 "Dynamite!" — 8 1 — 51 — Let Me Be Your Angel "Jump to the Beat" — — — 3 11 "Let Me Be Your Angel" 21 8 — 34 — —1981 "Love on a Two Way Street" 26 2 — 19 — — With You "It Was So Easy" — 61 — — — — "Feel My Love Tonight" — 71 36 — — —1982 "Don't Throw It All Away" 101 9 — — — — Sneakin' Out "Attack of the Name Game" 70 14 — — — — "Hey There Lonely Boy" 108 71 — — — — 1983 "Miracles" 40 13 — — — — Sixteen "Million Dollar Babe" — 52 — — — — 1984 "Perfect Combination" (with Johnny Gill) 75 10 — — — — Perfect Combination "Baby It's You" (with Johnny Gill) 102 37 — — — — "Block Party" (with Johnny Gill) — 63 48 — — — 1985 "I'm Not the Same Girl" — 52 — — — — I'm Not the Same Girl "He's Just Not You" — — — — — — "Can't Stop Thinking About You" — — — — — — 1986 "Nail It to the Wall" 48 4 2 — 76 — Take Me All the Way 1987 "Jump into My Life" — 13 3 — 79 — "Every Drop of Your Love" — 8 — — — — Personal Attention 1988 "Let Me Take You Down" — 11 — — — — "Call Me" — 80 — — 105 — 1989 "What You Need" — 30 — — — — What You Need "Where Do We Go from Here" (featuring Johnny Gill) — 1 20 — — — "Dance for You" (featuring Johnny Gill) — — — — — — 1990 "I Don't Have the Heart" — — — — — — "—" denotes the single failed to chart