The Cretones

The Cretones were a Los Angeles based new wave and power pop group in the early 1980s.

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Los Angeles - New wave - Power pop - 1980s

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They had one single which charted on the Billboard Magazine Hot 100: "Real Love" in the spring of 1980, which was from their first album. The song "Empty Heart" from their second album was their only other song to receive significant airplay on album rock stations, but it did not chart as a single.

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Billboard Magazine - 1980

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They are perhaps best known as the group which provided four of the songs covered by Linda Ronstadt on her 1980 album, Mad Love.

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After the band broke up, Cretones guitarist Mark Goldenberg went on to write the song "Automatic" for the Pointer Sisters which was a hit in 1984, and since 1994 has been a member of Jackson Browne's backup band; Cretones members Steve Beers and Peter Bernstein helped produce and compose the score to the TV show 21 Jump Street.

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Pointer Sisters - 1984 - 1994 - Jackson Browne - 21 Jump Street

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