Discography and Biography of Odyssey. Listen to all their hits.
Odyssey Songs

(with biography below if available)

Odyssey is originally a New York, United States-based singing group, best known for their 1977 hit "Native New Yorker," and a series of other mainly dance and soul hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s. "Native New Yorker" reached no. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100, no. 5 in the UK Singles Chart and was later covered by Frankie Valli. A string of albums and singles followed and the group managed another R&B chart hit, "Inside Out" which peaked on the US charts at no. 12 and in the UK went to no. 3 in 1982. In the United Kingdom, the band, with its diverse musical style had more chart success, totalling five Top Ten hits between 1977 and 1982. One of them, "Use It Up and Wear It Out", reached number one in the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in 1980. The UK follow-up single, "If You're Looking For A Way Out" had Lillian Lopez on lead vocals; the single reaching no. 6 in 1980 and spending a total of fifteen weeks in the UK chart. Odyssey thus became the third US act of the year (after Fern Kinney and M.A.S.H.) to reach number one in the UK despite not charting in their home country. Their later hit "Going Back to My Roots" was written and originally recorded by Lamont Dozier. Now based in the UK, the band is led and fronted by Steven Collazo and continues to perform and record.

Below is a list of Odyssey 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)


showing 1-13 of 13 records
‹r› i
artist discography/bio
read song lyrics, etc.
year
record label
1 record label: RCA 1962
chart position: UK #1, US Dance #6
written by: L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer
album: Hang Together
comments: [disco dance]
Odyssey Use It Up and Wear It Out
1980 RCA
2 record label: RCA 11129
chart position: RandB #6, US #21, UK #5, US AC #28, US dance #3,
written by: Sandy Linzer & Denny Randell
album: Odyssey
comments: [disco dance]
Odyssey Native New Yorker
1977 RCA
3 record label: RCA 226
chart position: RandB #12, UK #3, US #104, US dance #25
written by: Jesse Rae
album: Happy Together
Odyssey Inside Out
1982 RCA
4 record label: RCA 12240
chart position: UK #4, RandB #68, US dance #55
written by: Lamont Dozier
album: I Got the Melody
Odyssey Going Back to My Roots
1981 RCA
5 record label: RCA 5
chart position: UK #6
written by: Ralph Kotkov
album: Hang Together
comments: [love ballad]
Odyssey If You're Looking for a Way Out
1980 RCA
6 record label: RCA 1962
chart position: RandB #44, US #105, US Dance #6
written by: Doug James and Sandy Linzer
comments: charted as Hang Together / Don't Tell Me, Tell Her / Use It Up and Wear It Out in US dance charts
Odyssey Don't Tell Me, Tell Her
1980 RCA
7 record label: RCA 12056
chart position: UK #36, US Dance #6
written by: Sandy Linzer and L. Russell Brown
album: Hang Together
comments: [disco dance]
Odyssey Hang Together
1981 RCA
8 record label: RCA 12348
chart position: UK #43
written by: Allee Willis, David Foster and Jay Graydon
album: I Got the Melody
comments: [ballad]
Odyssey It Will Be Alright
1981 RCA
9 record label: RCA 275(UK)
chart position: UK #41
written by: David Courtney
album: Happy Together
Odyssey Magic Touch
1982 RCA
10 record label: Mirror 1 (UK)
chart position: UK #51
written by: Louise Lopez
Odyssey (Joy) I Know It
1985 Mirror
11 record label: RCA 11245
chart position: RandB #37, US #57
written by: Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell
album: Odyssey
Odyssey Weekend Lover
1978 RCA
12 record label: RCA 11399
chart position: US #107
written by: Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell
album: Hollywood Party Tonight
Odyssey Single Again -- What Time Does the Balloon Go Up
1978 RCA
-- record label: Casablanca 917
written by: C. Givings, D. Coleman, D. Givings, J. Gough, J. Ross, T. Coleman
album: Rare Gems Odyssey
comments: [funk]
Rare Gems Odyssey What Is Funk
1977 Casablanca




Log in to use playlist feature
(no registration required)