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About Lakeside:

In 1969, Dayton, Ohio innate Stephen Shockley formed the Young Underground after exiting the Monterreys. Vocalist Mark Woods, who was a colleague of the locality band the Nomads, joined up with Shockley to form a more adult-sounding Young Underground. The assembly initially had a pen deal with Curtom Records as a outcome of engaging a ability competition in Chicago. However, Curtom folded before long thereafter. While in Chicago the assemblage renamed itself Lakeside Express, after the Lakeside Express Newspaper in Chicago.

In 1974 the emerging Lakeside Express and another gathering close the designation of Liquid Funk, which featured Dallas natal Fred Alexander, Jr. on drums, arrived in Los Angeles about the identical period. For the next couple of years the bands performed at events approximately the greater L.A. room, occasionally crossing paths. The members of Liquid Funk returned to Dallas, but Alexander remained in L.A. Lakeside, who beside at current had dropped the Express from their label, was seeking additional personnel to harden their ribbon. After two auditions, Alexander was welcomed into the congregation.

Lakeside inked a section exterior with Motown, but establish no good. Consequently, they released a ballad on ABC Records, but that identification went beneath. The agreeable pose they were seeking turned outdoors to be at Dick Griffey's Solar Records. The company signed a contemporary in with Griffey, and released their first Top Ten hit on Solar Records, "It's All the Way Live," which peaked at numeral four on the Billboard R&B charts.

Lakeside released a hostess of songs that scaled the R&B charts, but didn't intimidate the attitude of any other artists. However, in 1980 they went storming up the charts again with their smash integer single unwed, "Fantastic Voyage," which was produced next to the composed sash. They followed the happy result of "Fantastic Voyage" with another Top Ten R&B separate, a remake of the Paul McCartney and John Lennon criterion "I Want to Hold Your Hand." The figure continued their outcome with the Billboard Top Ten singles "Raid," "Outrageous," and a line of R&B gathering songs and ballads.