Discography and Biography of Club Nouveau. Listen to all their hits.
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Club Nouveau is an American R&B group formed by record producer/performer Jay King in 1986 in Sacramento, California subsequent to the breakup of the Timex Social Club. The group's name (French for "New Club") was changed from its original incarnation, Jet Set, to capitalize on the breakup. The group was signed by Warner Bros. Records, on which Club Nouveau released its first three albums. Club Nouveau's version of Bill Withers' song "Lean on Me" won a Grammy award for Best R&B Song in 1987. From their debut album, Life, Love & Pain, which was released in 1986, the group scored four consecutive hits: "Jealousy" (essentially an answer song responding to Timex Social Club's hit "Rumors"), "Situation #9", "Lean on Me" and "Why You Treat Me So Bad". The latter two both made it to #2 on the Billboard R&B chart the next year, with "Lean on Me" going on to become a big Billboard Hot 100 hit.

Below is a list of Club Nouveau songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: King Jay 28430
chart position: RandB #2, UK #3, US #1, US dance #1, US AC #31
written by: Bill Withers
album: Life, Love & Pain
Club Nouveau Lean on Me
1987 King Jay
2 record label: Warner Bros. 28360
chart position: RandB #2, US #39, US dance #22
written by: Denzil Foster, Jay King & Thomas McElroy
album: Life, Love & Pain
Club Nouveau Why You Treat Me So Bad
1987 Warner Bros.
3 record label: Warner Bros. 28551
chart position: RandB #8, US #80
written by: Alex Hill, Denzil Foster, Jay King, Marcus Thompson, Michael Marshall and Thomas McElroy
album: Life, Love and Pain
Club Nouveau Jealousy
1986 Warner Bros.
4 record label: Warner Bros. 28494
chart position: RandB #4
written by: Denzil Foster, Jay King and Thomas McElroy
album: Life, Love and Pain
Club Nouveau Situation Number 9
1986 Warner Bros.
5 record label: Warner 22769
chart position: RandB #12
written by: Jay King and Christopher F. Dixon
album: Under a Nouveau Groove
Club Nouveau No Friend of Mine
1989 Warner
6 record label: Warner 28101
chart position: RandB #34
written by: Alex Hill and Jay King
album: Listen to the Message
Club Nouveau It's a Cold, Cold World!
1988 Warner
7 record label: Tommy Boy 903
chart position: RandB #42
written by: Denzil Foster, Jay King and Thomas McElroy
album: Life, Love and Pain
Club Nouveau Heavy on My Mind
1988 Tommy Boy
8 record label: JVK Quality 19100
chart position: RandB #45
written by: traditional and Edwin Hawkins
album: A New Beginning
comments: [reggae, gospel]
Club Nouveau Oh Happy Day
1992 JVK Quality
9 record label: Warner Bros. 28268
chart position: RandB #101
album: Life, Love and Pain
comments: [slow jam]
Club Nouveau Let Me Go
1995 Warner Bros.
10 record label: Lightyear 54301-2
chart position: RandB #124
comments: [slow jam]
Club Nouveau What Kind of Love
1998 Lightyear




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