One of my all-time favorite one-hit wonders, Sly Fox was sitting at #85 on the Billboard Hot 100 back in 1986 with “Let’s Go All The Way.” The title was true enough, as the track endured a four-month climb to the Top 10, but it turned out that Sly Fox wasn’t cunning enough to plan for long-term chart success.

The duo consisted of vocalist Michael Camacho and Gary “Mudbone” Cooper, a member of Bootsy’s Rubber Band. That P-Funk association might explain just how far-out “Let’s Go All The Way” is, blending rock, pop, and funk into a groove that, at the time, sounded like nothing else on radio. Unfortunately, nothing else on Sly Fox’s album of the same name sounded like it either, giving Camacho and Cooper their only Top 40 hit (follow-up “Stay True” stalled at #94).

“Let’s Go All The Way” spent two weeks at #7 in April 1986, but I guess the track proved too edgy for the R&B chart, falling way short at #57. Check out the video here.

Long before Sly Fox took “Let’s Go All The Way” into the Hot 100, Capitol Records labelmates The Boogie Boys borrowed the beat for their rap hit, “A Fly Girl.” The Harlem trio landed at #6 on the R&B charts in August 1985.

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