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''Break Out'' is the tenth studio album by the American female vocal group The Pointer Sisters and their most successful album to date. The album was released on November 6, 1983 on Planet Records. ==Overview== Featuring mostly electro-dance tunes, the album afforded the Pointer Sisters the biggest success of their recording career, spawning four U.S. top ten hits - "Jump (for My Love)", "Automatic", "Neutron Dance" and a remixed version of their 1982 hit "I'm So Excited" which was included on later editions of the album in the place of the track "Nightline". "Automatic" also became the group's biggest UK hit, peaking at #2 and certified "Silver" by the BPI. "Jump" also made the UK top 10, peaking at #6. Including the remix of "I"m So Excited" added to pressings of the album from mid-1984 a total of six singles would be issued from ''Break Out'' beginning with "I Need You" a track which featured a shared lead by the three Pointer Sisters and which being a mid-tempo number was atypical of the album's overall dance sound: the choice of "I Need You" as lead single was based on producer Richard Perry's hope that the track would reinforce the Pointer Sister's presence at R&B radio, and "I Need You" did become a major hit on the R&B chart in ''Billboard'' without reaching the Top 40 of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 stalling at #48. The dance track "Jump (for My Love)" with June Pointer on lead was intended to be the second single release off ''Break Out'': however "Automatic" - another dance track - was substituted as the album's second single due to heavy radio and dance club airplay as an album track.〔''Billboard'' vol 96 No. 46 (17 November 1984) p. 78〕 The first major hit to feature the distinctive contralto of Ruth Pointer on lead, "Automatic" became the first Top 40 hit off ''Break Out'', its #5 peak ending a three year absence by the Pointer Sisters from the Top Ten of the Hot 100: "Automatic" also became the most successful R&B hit by the Pointer Sisters as a trio, although its #2 R&B peak was bested by "How Long (Betcha' Got a Chick on the Side)", a 1975 #1 R&B hit by the Pointer Sisters in their original four-woman format. "Jump (for My Love)" was afforded a single release as follow-up to "Automatic" and with a #3 peak became the most successful single off ''Break Out''. The re-release of "I'm So Excited" - the one single from ''Break Out'' to feature a lead by Anita Pointer who sang lead on most Pointer Sisters' hits - resulted in a third consecutive Top Ten hit for the Pointer Sisters who prior to ''Break Out'' had accumulated three earlier Top Ten hits over a twelve year recording career: "I'm So Excited" peaked at #9 and after the ''Break Out'' track "Neutron Dance" with Ruth Pointer on lead was optioned for the soundtrack of the film ''Beverly Hills Cop'' it became the fifth single release from ''Break Out'' and the fourth consecutive Top Ten hit for the Pointer Sisters reaching #6 on the Hot 100 in February 1985. A sixth single from ''Break Out'': "Baby Come and Get It" featuring June Pointer on lead, became a minor hit in the spring of 1985 (#44 Hot 100/ #24 R&B). ''Break Out'' sold over three million copies in the US, and won the group two Grammy Awards and two American Music Awards. The original and re-released versions of the album were remastered and issued in a deluxe expanded edition with bonus tracks on CD in 2011 by Big Break Records. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Break Out (Pointer Sisters album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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