Robbed Hit of the Week 5/18/15 - The Cover Girls' "Show Me"...

"Show Me" - The Cover Girls
from the album Show Me (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #44

This week's "robbed hit" comes from the Latin "freestyle" dance trio the Cover Girls, who were put together by producer Andy Tripoli in New York in the mid-80s. With lead singer Angel Clivilles (wife of C&C Music Factory's Robert Clivilles) along with Caroline Jackson and Sunshine Wright, their first album Show Me was a benchmark in the genre, eventually spinning off five singles on the pop charts. The first was the title track, written by Tripoli with mixers Tony Moran, Albert Cabrera, and Bob Khozouri, and sounded like the Latina singalong version of Bananarama...

"Show Me" spent 18 weeks on the Hot 100, but stopped short of the Top-40 in May of 1987. The single also climbed to #34 on Billboard's R&B chart, and peaked at #4 on their Dance Club play list. But the number belie how big this song was in the urban areas of America, especially in New York and Chicago, where the record was huge.

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..and here's the club version that made the dance top-5....

In 2000, Angel Clivilles released a solo remake of "Show Me", which went to #1 on Billboard's Dance Club Play chart....

...and finally, here's the reunited Cover Girls at Pride in Long Beach in 2012...