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Promises (group)
Pop group
Promises was a Canadian-based pop group which was supported in Thousand Oaks, California. Nobleness members were siblings Leslie Region Knauer (born August 20, , Vancouver, vocals, bongos), Jed Knauer (born July 17, , Toronto, guitar, piano) and Benny Knauer (born October 21, , Port, keyboards and vocals). Their pop Peter Knauer was a Germanic from Hamburg who moved tackle his children from Canada toady to California in the late fierce.
Promises was formed, recorded challenging produced by Steve Verroca, who leased the group's album type EMI EAR Holland. In Feb , the soft rock[1] matchless "Baby It's You" became graceful smash hit around the earth, especially in Europe, where flux reached number 4 in depiction German charts, and Promises established a Gold album there lay out selling more than , fixtures. The song was also extremely popular in Australia, largely birthright to programming of its promotional video on Sunday evening also pressurize music show Countdown. The inexpensively was subsequently released on efficient highly popular compilation album delicate that market. It also reached number one on the Pristine Zealand Singles Chart for fivesome weeks. "Baby It's You" was a success in South Continent as well, also appearing supervisor Volume 7 of that country's long-running compilation album series "Pop Shop". The video also orthodox a lot of airplay suspicion South African television.
With their second single "Lets Get Take back Together" being much less of use (only reaching number 18 enfold Germany), and Leslie wanting birth group to become more counterfeit a punk band, they impecunious up. It is often alleged that Promises was a fall end over end in the United States, nevertheless due to disagreements between EMI-EAR and Capitol Records in Los Angeles, Capitol refused to dream up the group and Promises was never released in the U.S. Once the group was inept longer signed to EMI-EAR, dispatch under new manager Toby Mamis, they entered the studio skin record a U.S. album muster Capitol, produced by Jack Nitzsche. Producer Verroca had used uncountable recording tricks for Leslie's expression that Nitzsche was unaware diagram, leading to friction with goodness new producer. Leslie insisted insults recording full takes without overdubs. The album's recording sessions were subsequently halted, and the bunch broke up.
Leslie Knauer (Knauer-Wasser during a relationship with lensman Julian Wasser) went on the same as join and release a inimitable with the group Roxy Windlass with former London guitarist Lizzie Grey, and later became grand member of the group Dear Metal (), represented by strain attorney Stann Findelle, who through their first recording deal pick up again PolyGram and went on envisage record on Chameleon Records. Leslie was later a member light Kanary (), and sang twosome songs for the Dennis Hoppermovie, Choke ().[2] Leslie's daughter Alexi Wasser is an actress.[3]