Atlantic Starr, Always | Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶

In the 32^nd edition of Throwback Vibez (2023), we recollect and reflect on “Always” by Atlantic Starr. 

The vibes, the vibes, those Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶! Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 is a column that celebrates awesome songs from the past.  The records that grace this column are older, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re ancient – no fossils 🦴! All genres of music are welcome. In the 32^nd edition of Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 (2023), we recollect and reflect on 🎵 “Always”, performed by 🎙 Atlantic Starr. 

“Girl, you are to me / All that a woman should be / And I dedicate my life / To you always.” Oh, the chivalry! The heyday for R&B collective 🎙 Atlantic Starr was in the 1980s. Even so, Atlantic Starr formed in 1976, and scored a hit single in the early 90s.  The collective’s three most successful singles begins with the utterly superb no. 1 Hot 100 hit, 🎵 “Always”. “Always” graces Atlantic Starr’s 1987 album, 💿 All in the Name of Love.

“Always” is a prime example of the brand of smooth, adult contemporary R&B that was affluent in the late 80s.  Written and produced by 🎼 ✍ 🎛 David Lewis, Jonathan Lewis, and Wayne Lewis, this record is filled with love and chill vibes.  The chemistry between co-lead vocalists Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers is utterly stupendous.  “Oh, boy / I love you so / I can’t find enough ways / To let you know,” Weather sings in the second verse, continuing, “But you can be sure I’m yours / For always.” R&B records don’t sound like “Always” does anymore, but it still gives you those feels more than three decades later.  The crowning achievement is none other than the chorus:

“Oh, you’re like the sun

Chasing all the rain away

When you come around

You bring brighter days

You’re the perfect one

For me and you

Forever will be

And I will love you so

For always.”  

What more can be said? 🎵 “Always” is a classic that will, indeed, ALWAYS make our ears perk up when hearing it.

Appears in 🔻:

• ALWAYS: 13 Songs That Exemplify Utmost Consistency

🎙 Atlantic Starr • 💿 All in the Name of Love • 🏷 Warner • 🗓 1987

Atlantic Starr, “Always”: Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 No. 32 (2023) [📷: Brent Faulkner/ The Musical Hype; Warner; John Alan Sperry, PIRO via Pixabay]