Mass Production (band)

Mass Production was an American funk/disco musical group, best known for their 1979 hit, "Firecracker". Based in Richmond, Virginia, the ten-piece group had a series of minor R&B hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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American - Funk - Disco - 1979 - Richmond - Virginia - R&B - 1970 - 1980

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Mass Production consisted of LeCoy Bryant, Kevin Douglas, James Drumgole, Agnes "Tiny" Kelly, Larry Marshall, Gregory McCoy, Emmanuel Redding, Ricardo Williams, Samuel Williams, and Tyrone Williams.

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Their best-known song, "Firecracker," hit number four on the R&B charts in the late summer of 1979. The group stayed together for several more years, scoring a string of small hits, before deciding to disband in 1983.

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1979 - 1983

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"Firecracker" was sampled by 2 Live Crew in 1989 for their own hit single "Me So Horny", from the album As Nasty As They Wanna Be.

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Sampled - 2 Live Crew - 1989 - Me So Horny - As Nasty As They Wanna Be

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