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Tavares (also known as The Tavares Brothers) are an American R&B, funk, and soul music group, composed of five Cape Verdean-American brothers. Born and raised in Providence, RI, they would later move to New Bedford, MA. The five-brother singing group may be best known for such up-tempo hits as the million-selling single "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel," "More Than a Woman," and "Whodunit," but they first came to national attention with the luscious ballad "Check It Out." Their crisp vocalizing and clean-cut, young-men-next-door image made them favorites on TV shows starring Johnny Carson, Mike Douglas, and Dick Clark's American Bandstand. In 1974, Tavares also had the first hit version (number one R&B) of "She's Gone" written by the then relative unknown duo of Daryl Hall and John Oates. Hall & Oates scored a number seven pop hit with the song in 1976. Tavares were inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame in 2014.

Below is a list of Tavares 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: Capitol 4270
chart position: RandB #3, UK #4, US #15, US dance #1, US AC #18
written by: Freddie Perren & Keni St. Lewis
album: Sky High!
comments: [disco]
Tavares Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel
1976 Capitol
2 record label: Capitol 4398
chart position: RandB #1, US #22, UK #5, US AC #31
written by: Freddie Perren & Keni St. Lewis
album: Love Storm
Tavares Whodunit
1977 Capitol
3 record label: Capitol 4500
chart position: RandB #36, US #32, UK #7
written by: Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb and Robin Gibb
album: Future Bound
comments: [disco dance]
Tavares More Than a Woman
1977 Capitol
4 record label: Capitol 15832
chart position: RandB #1, US #10, US dance #2
written by: Dennis Lambert & Brian Potter
album: In the City
comments: [disco dance]
Tavares It Only Takes a Minute
1975 Capitol
5 record label: Capitol 15886
chart position: RandB #14, US #34, UK #4, US dance #3
written by: Freddie Perren, Keni St. Lewis & Christine Yarian
album: Sky High!
comments: [disco dance]
Tavares Don't Take Away the Music
1976 Capitol
6 record label: RCA 13292
chart position: RandB #16, US #33, US AC #15
written by: Kenny Nolan
album: New Directions
comments: [ballad]
Tavares A Penny for Your Thoughts
1982 RCA
7 record label: Capitol 3957
chart position: RandB #1, US #50
written by: Daryl Hall & John Oates
album: Hard Core Poetry
comments: [ballad]
Tavares She's Gone
1974 Capitol
8 record label: Capitol 4010
chart position: RandB #4, US #25
written by: Dennis Lambert & Brian Potter
album: Hard Core Poetry
comments: [ballad]
Tavares Remember What I Told You to Forget
1975 Capitol
9 record label: Capitol 3674
chart position: RandB #5, US #35
written by: Floyd Butler & Billy Osborne
album: Check It Out
comments: [ballad]
Tavares Check It Out
1973 Capitol
10 record label: Capitol 4811
chart position: RandB #10, US #47
written by: Gerard McMahon
album: Supercharged
Tavares Bad Times
1980 Capitol
11 record label: Capitol 4184
chart position: RandB #8, US #52
written by: Dan Hartman
album: In the City
Tavares Free Ride
1975 Capitol
12 record label: Capitol 1
chart position: UK #12
written by: Freddie Perren and Keni St. Lewis
comments: 1985 Remix by Ben Liebrand
Tavares Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel (remix)
1986 Capitol
13 record label: Capitol 3882
chart position: RandB #10, US #59
written by: Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter
album: Hard Core Poetry
Tavares Too Late
1974 Capitol
14 record label: Capitol 3794
chart position: RandB #10, US #70
written by: Johnny Bristol, James Dean and John Glover
album: Check It Out
Tavares That's the Sound That Lonely Makes
1974 Capitol
15 record label: Capitol 15930(UK)
chart position: UK #16
written by: Freddie Perren and Keni St. Lewis
album: Love Storm
Tavares One Step Away
1977 Capitol
16 record label: Capitol 16032
chart position: RandB #5
written by: Len Ron Hanks and Zane Grey
album: Madam Butterfly
Tavares Never Had a Love Like This Before
1979 Capitol
17 record label: RCA 13811
chart position: RandB #10, US Dance #41
written by: Dana Meyers, Dominick Leslie and Wardell Potts
album: Words and Music
comments: [disco funk]
Tavares Deeper in Love
1983 RCA
18 record label: Capitol 15905(UK)
chart position: UK #25
written by: Freddie Perren and Keni St. Lewis
album: Sky High!
Tavares Mighty Power of Love
1977 Capitol
19 record label: Capitol 11699
chart position: RandB #48, UK #29
written by: Keni St. Lewis
album: Future Bound
Tavares The Ghost of Love
1978 Capitol
20 record label: Capitol 4221
chart position: RandB #11
written by: Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter
album: In the City
Tavares The Love I Never Had
1976 Capitol
21 record label: Capitol 4010
chart position: US #40
written by: Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter
album: Hard Core Poetry
Tavares My Ship
1975 Capitol
22 record label: Capitol 4453
chart position: RandB #14
written by: George Motola and John Marascalco
album: Love Storm
Tavares Goodnight My Love
1977 Capitol
23 record label: Capitol 15832 (UK)
chart position: UK #46
written by: Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter
Tavares It Only Takes a Minute (extended remix)
1986 Capitol
24 record label: Capitol 4933
chart position: RandB #17
written by: René Moore and Angela Winbush
album: Love Uprising
Tavares Love Uprising
1980 Capitol
25 record label: Capitol 15996(UK)
chart position: UK #62
written by: Dave Callens, Lucy Garber and Ed Villareal
album: Future Bound
Tavares Slow Train to Paradise
1978 Capitol
26 record label: RCA 13433
chart position: RandB #24
written by: R. Wyatt Jr. and K. Young
album: New Directions
comments: [disco funk]
Tavares Got to Find My Way Back to You
1983 RCA
27 record label: RCA 13684
chart position: RandB #29
written by: Kenny Nolan
album: Words and Music
comments: [love ballad]
Tavares Words and Music
1983 RCA
28 record label: Capitol 4846
chart position: RandB #42
written by: Benjamin Wright
album: Supercharged
Tavares I Can't Go On Living without You
1980 Capitol
29 record label: Capitol 5019
chart position: RandB #45
written by: Andrew Woolfolk and Bunny Hull
album: Loveline
comments: [2 step beat ballad]
Tavares Turn Out the Nightlight
1981 Capitol
30 record label: Capitol 5043
chart position: RandB #47
written by: Paul Laurence
album: Loveline
comments: [disco dance]
Tavares Loveline
1981 Capitol
31 record label: Capitol 4969
chart position: RandB #64
written by: Benjamin Wright and Lloyd Price
album: Love Uprising
comments: [ballad]
Tavares Loneliness
1981 Capitol
32 record label: Capitol 4703
chart position: RandB #77
written by: Len Ron Hanks and Zane Grey
album: Madam Butterfly
Tavares Straight from the Heart
1979 Capitol
33 record label: Capitol 4583
chart position: RandB #94
written by: Keni St. Lewis
album: Future Bound
Tavares Timber
1978 Capitol
-- record label: Capitol 15945 (UK)
written by: St. Lewis, Perren
Tavares with Freda Payne I Wanna See You Soon
1977 Capitol
-- record label: Capitol 4398
written by: F. Tavares
album: Love Storm
Tavares Fool of the Year
1977 Capitol
-- record label: Capitol 11701
written by: K. St. Lewis and F. Perren
album: The Best of Tavares
comments: [album cut]
Tavares Bein' With You
1977 Capitol
-- record label: Capitol 4846
written by: Williams, Foster, Bayer Sager
album: Super Charged
Tavares Why Can't We Fall in Love
1980 Capitol
-- record label: Capitol 15905
album: Check It Out
comments: [album cut]
Tavares Strangers in Dark Corners
1973 Capitol




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