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Rachel Sweet Biography

She is an American Singer, television writer, producer, and actress. She best recognized for her singing career due to her sensational vocal sound.

Rachel Sweet started her career as a singer before moving to Acting, Writing and Producing. She started out at the age of 3 as a Country Singer but had appeared in several Tv commercials before it.

In 1962

28 July, Akron, Ohio, USA. Sweet sang professionally at the age of five, working as a child model for television commercials in New York and as a support act to Mickey Rooney. At the age of 12, she recorded her first single, the country song ‘Faded Rose’, on the Derrick label which, along with her follow-up ‘We Live In Two Different Worlds’, reached the lower regions of the Billboard country charts. Under the tutelage of the manager and songwriter Liam Sternberg, in 1978 Sweet landed a contract with the pioneering independent UK label Stiff Records. The company had previously distributed a compilation album of Akron acts which included two tracks by the singer.

For the Stiff 78 Tour with fellow labelmates Lene Lovich, Wreckless Eric, Jona Lewie, and Mickey Jupp, Sweet’s backing band were the Records. The single, a version of the Isaac Hayes / David Porter song ‘B-A-B-Y’, reached the UK Top 40, with Sweet demonstrating she possessed a mature voice for someone still in her mid-teens. The full-length Fool Around saw her tackling Del Shannon’s ‘I Go To Pieces’ and Elvis Costello’s ‘Stranger In The House’ as well as several Sternberg originals. Sweet’s obvious talents were dogged by persistent, but tenuous, accusations of her being marketed as ‘jail-bait’.

In 1974

She began recording country music and resulted in success beyond one minor hit. Sweet then switched to Rock n’ Roll signing into Stiff Records and eventually releasing her first album,  Fool Around, in 1978, following her dropping out of high school as room to concentrating for her music career.

In 1979

After parting with Sternberg in 1979, her second album presented Sweet with a harder image, complete with an advertising campaign bizarrely depicting her as a leather-jacketed, sullen child abductor. Backed by Fingerprints, the songs on the album contained cover versions of Lou Reed’s ‘New Age’, Graham Parker’s ‘Fool’s Gold’ and the Damned’s ‘New Rose’ as well as the usual quota of country rock. As with the first album, Protect The Innocent was a commercial failure, although this time it did not enjoy critical approbation.

In 1981

Sweet’s departure from Stiff to CBS Records saw the release of 1981’s … And Then He Kissed Me which included the UK and US Top 40 hit duet with Rex Smith, ‘Everlasting Love’, in 1981. Despite this encouraging start, the mismanaged talents of Rachel Sweet saw her fade from the music scene. She reappeared singing the title song of John Waters’ Hairspray in 1988 and subsequently worked on cable television. In the 90s and into the new millennium, Sweet concentrated on acting, writing and producing.

In 1982

Sweet released the album, Blame it on Love which featured her hit song, VooDoo. She resumed her education via correspondence courses and graduated from Columbia University in French and English Literature in 1988.

In 1991

She released the album Fool around: The best of Rachel Sweet by Rhino Records along with the theme Hairspray.
Then Sweet bought Madonna’s former home, Los Pavoreales, selling it in 2010 for $4,895,000.

Rachel Sweet Age|Rachel Sweet Nationality

Sweet is an American native, born(On July 28, 1962) and raised in the City of Akron, Ohio. As of 2019, she is 57 years of age still active in media since 1974 serving at around 45 years.

Family & Personal life

Sweet was married(in 1997-present) to Tom Palmer. The couple has 2 children.

Rachel Sweet I Got To Pieces

Lyrics

When I see him walkin’ down the street
I get so shaky and I feel so weak
I tell my eyes to look the other way
But they don’t seem to hear a word I say

And I, go to pieces and I wanna hide
Go to pieces and I almost died
Every time my baby passes by

I tell my arms they’ll hold someone new
Another love that will be true
But they don’t listen, they don’t seem to care
They reach for him but he’s not there

And I, go to pieces and I wanna hide
Go to pieces and I almost died
Every time my baby passes by

I remember what he said when he said
“Goodbye baby. We’ll meet again soon maybe”
“But until we do, all my best to you”
I’m so lonely, I think about him only

I go to places we used to go
But I know she’ll never show
She hurt me so much inside
Now I hope she’s satisfied

And I, go to pieces and I wanna hide
Go to pieces and I almost died
Every time my baby passes by
Go to pieces and I cry
Every time my baby passes by
Go to pieces and I cry

Rachel Sweet Albums

• Fool Around(1978), Stiff Records
• Protect The Innocent(1980), Stiff Records

…And Then He Kissed Me(1981), Columbia Record’

• Blame It On Love(1982), Columbia Records

Rachel Sweet’s Compilation Albums

• B.A.B.Y.-The best of Rachel Sweet(1978), Stiff Records
• Fool Around: The Best of Rachel Sweet(1992), Rhino Records
• …And Then He Kissed Me/Blame It On Love(2005), Sony Records
• Baby: Complete Stiff Recordings 1978-1980(2014), Rpm Records UK

Rachel Sweet’s Singles

• “Any Port in a Storm” (1976), Derrick
• “Paper Airplane” (1976), Derrick
• ”The Ballad of Mable Ruth Miller and John Wesley Pritchett” (1978), Derrick
• “B-A-B-Y” (1978), Stiff – UK No. 35, AUS #47
• “Stranger in the House” (1978), Stiff-Columbia
• “Baby Let’s Play House” (1979), Stiff
• “I Go To Pieces” (1979), Stiff, AUS #36
• “Tonight” (1980), Stiff
• “Spellbound” (1980), Stiff, US #107
• “Fool’s Gold” (1980), Stiff
• “Lover’s Lane” (1980), Stiff/Columbia
• “Everlasting Love” (1981), Columbia – with Rex Smith, US No. 32, UK No. 35,  AUS #41
• “Then He Kissed Me – Be My Baby” (1981), CBS, AUS #55
• “Party Girl” (1981), CBS
• “VooDoo” (1982), Columbia – US No. 72
• “Hairspray” (1988)

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