The Party (music group)

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The Party
Background information
Origin	Orlando, Florida, USA
Genre(s)	Pop Dance R&B
Years active	1990 – 1993
Label(s)	Hollywood Records
Associated acts	MMC
Former members
Albert Fields Tiffini Hale Chase Hampton Deedee Magno Damon Pampolina

The Party was an American pop band. The group members were Albert Fields, Tiffini Hale, Chase Hampton, Deedee Magno, and Damon Pampolina. They were all cast members of The All New Mickey Mouse Club.

1 History
2 Discography
3 Where's The Party Now?
4 External links

[edit] History

In 1990 the Disney Channel formed a pop band by selecting current cast members of The All New Mickey Mouse Club. As part of the promotion for this new band, a "name the band" contest was held. The result was "The Party", which is an acronym for "Positive Attitude Reflecting Today's Youth."^{[citation needed]}

Their debut, self-titled album was released in August 1990 on Hollywood Records. The first single, "Summer Vacation" saw moderate success, peaking at #72 on the Billboard Hot 100. The following singles "I Found Love" and "That's Why" peaked at #79 and #55, respectively. The album also charted at #116 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart. During this time the Disney Channel produced a special, "The Party: In Concert." Their success landed them opening act spots on major concert tours with the likes of Taylor Dayne and Vanilla Ice.

In 1991 the covers and remixes EP In The Meantime, In Between Time was released. The cover of the Dokken song "In My Dreams" ended up being the band's biggest hit on the charts, peaking at #34 on the Billboard Hot 100. In My Dreams would land the group an appearence on Club MTV, a return to the MMC, another Disney Channel special entitled, "Go Party!" and another concert tour opening for Hi-Five.

1992's release, Free, showed the band's sound changing. Teddy Riley wrote 3 songs for this album including the New Jack Swing-tinged title song, "Free." Dr. Dre produced the song "Let's Get Right Down To It." This album would once again land them another concert tour opening spot with Color Me Badd and their last special for the Disney Channel, "All About The Party, however, the album was not as successful on the charts as previous ones, perhaps signaling the beginning of the end for them.

In 1993 Hollywood Records released The Party's Over...Thanks For Coming with little advance notice. This farewell album consisted of outtakes from the Free recording sessions.

[edit] Discography

The Party – (August 31, 1990, Hollywood Records)
In The Meantime, In Between Time – (September 17, 1991, Hollywood Records)
Free – (August 25, 1992, Hollywood Records)
The Party's Over... Thanks for Coming – (November 23, 1993, Hollywood Records)
The Party - Greatest Hits – (August 19, 1997, Hollywood Records)

[edit] Where's The Party Now?

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In 1994 Chase Hampton and Tiffini Hale returned to host the final year of the New Mickey Mouse Club. So where are they now?

[edit] Albert Fields

Albert Fields recorded a solo album under the monkier Jeune (which is half of his middle name, JeunePierre) entitled Back To Reality and continues to perform and record on the indie circuit.

[edit] Chasen Hampton

Chase Hampton has also continued to perform with musician Mike Vizcarra in the band Buzzfly, incidently Vizcarra was one of the producers on The Party's farewell album.

[edit] DeeDee Magno

Deedee Magno went on to peform in musical theater, most notable was her role of Kim in Miss Saigon on Broadway. She is currently married and recently had her first child and is rumored to be recording her first solo album.

[edit] Tiffini Hale

Tiffini Hale seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. She tried getting into acting during the 90s, but unfortunately not with many results. The internet is plagued with rumors of her whereabouts.

[edit] Damon Pampolina

Damon Pampolina dabbled in acting and most recently hosted a program on the Playboy Channel, he now works in real estate in Southern California.

In 1997, a greatest hits album of The Party was released, but was soon overshadowed by the success of other former Mouseketeers such as Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Justin Timberlake & JC Chasez of *NSYNC.