Gerald Alston is an R&B singer, and the lead singer with The Manhattans

The Manhattans

The Manhattans are an American popular R&B vocal group, with a string of hit records spanning four decades. Their best known million-selling songs being "Kiss and Say Goodbye" and 'Shining Star' in 1980...

. Between 1988 and 1995, he left the group to record five albums (later recording his tribute to Sam Cooke in 2008) and ten solo singles, including "Take Me Where You Want To." "Slow Motion" a remake of Atlantic Starr

Atlantic Starr

Atlantic Starr was a 1980s R&B band. Among their biggest hits were "Always" and "Secret Lovers."- History :The group was started in 1976 in White Plains, New York by trumpeter Duke Jones , drummer Porter Carroll Jr., bassist Clifford Archer, percussionist and flautist Joseph Phillips, and three...

's "Send For Me" and "Activated", most of which was for Motown Records

Motown Records

Motown is a record label originally founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation in Detroit, Michigan, United States, on April 14, 1960. The name, a portmanteau of motor and town, is also a nickname for Detroit...

. He joined the Manhattans in 1970, shortly after the death of their former lead singer George Smith and helped the group remain a fixture on the R & B top ten as lead on songs like "Kiss And Say Goodbye," "There's No Me Without You", and "Shining Star". He is the nephew of Shirley Alston Reeves, former lead singer of The Shirelles

The Shirelles

The Shirelles were an African-American girl group that achieved popularity in the early 1960s. They consisted of schoolmates Shirley Owens , Doris Coley , Addie "Micki" Harris , and Beverly Lee...

 and rejoined the group in 1995 after finding that "his solo career wasn't what he thought it would have been." (quote from A Touch Of Classic Soul of the Early 1980s - Marc Taylor, pg. 170.)

Discography

• Take Me Where You Want To" (1998)
• "You Laid Your Eyes On Me" (1989)
• "Activated"
• "Stay A Little While"
• "Slow Motion" (1990)
• "Nothing Can Change"
• "Getting Back Into Love"
• "Hell Of A Situation (1991)
• "Tell Me This Night Won't End" (Motown)
• "Stay The Night" (Street Life)(1994)

Albums

Year	Album	Peak chart positions
		US Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	US R&B Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999...
1988	Gerald Alston	—	18
1990	Open Invitation	—	14
1992	Always In The Mood	—	62
1994	First Class Only	—	93
2008	Gerald Alston Sings Sam Cooke	—	—
"—" denotes the album failed to chart

Singles

Year	Song title	Peak chart positions
		U.S. R&B Singles Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...
1988	"Take Me Where You Want To"	3
1989	"I Can't Tell You Why"	52
	"You Laid Your Love On Me"	41
1990	"Slow Motion"	3
1991	"Getting Back Into Love"	6
	"Tell Me This Night Won't End"	69
1992	"Hell Of A Situation (Backroom Conversation)"	40
1993	"Send For Me"	40
1994	"Stay The Night"	69
1995	"Devote All The Time"	81

External links

• Official website