A school band in the UK known as Silent Eruption began playing together in 1969. Greg Perrineau, Gerry Williams, Eric Kingsley and singer Lindel Leslie (nee Leslie Johnson) Nothing really happened until they added Jamaican backing singer Precious Wilson and changed the band's name to Eruption in 1975 when Frank Farian became involved. Frank is famous for introducing the world to Boney M and infamously for Milli Vanilli. The band's first single was with lead singer Lindel, "Let Me Take You Back In Time" and she left the band shortly after that success. Precious stepped up to lead singer just in time for their first and biggest hit "I Can't Stand The Rain", a cover of the Ann Peebles R&B classic from 1974. They recorded the bombastic cover for their LP "I Can't Stand The Rain" and were rewarded with a #18 Hot100 and a #6 Disco hit in the spring of 1978. For their second LP, they continued on with Farian, who brought them "One Way Ticket" a song written by Hank Hunter and Jack Keller in 1959 and originally recorded by Neil Sedaka as the B side of his hit "Oh, Carol". The dramatic reworking using a 96 Tears type of organ playing was at once mystical, hypnotic and foreboding, underpinning the dour message of the song sung so energetically. The band never hit those heights again and Wilson quit the band in 1979. These days, she does tour as Eruption and you just might catch her covering these two disco era hits.
Eruption ~ One Way Ticket 1979 Disco Purrfection Version
A school band in the UK known as Silent Eruption began playing together in 1969. Greg Perrineau, Gerry Williams, Eric Kingsley and singer Lindel Leslie (nee Leslie Johnson) Nothing really happened until they added Jamaican backing singer Precious Wilson and changed the band's name to Eruption in 1975 when Frank Farian became involved. Frank is famous for introducing the world to Boney M and infamously for Milli Vanilli. The band's first single was with lead singer Lindel, "Let Me Take You Back In Time" and she left the band shortly after that success. Precious stepped up to lead singer just in time for their first and biggest hit "I Can't Stand The Rain", a cover of the Ann Peebles R&B classic from 1974. They recorded the bombastic cover for their LP "I Can't Stand The Rain" and were rewarded with a #18 Hot100 and a #6 Disco hit in the spring of 1978. For their second LP, they continued on with Farian, who brought them "One Way Ticket" a song written by Hank Hunter and Jack Keller in 1959 and originally recorded by Neil Sedaka as the B side of his hit "Oh, Carol". The dramatic reworking using a 96 Tears type of organ playing was at once mystical, hypnotic and foreboding, underpinning the dour message of the song sung so energetically. The band never hit those heights again and Wilson quit the band in 1979. These days, she does tour as Eruption and you just might catch her covering these two disco era hits.
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