Dance With Me

The Black Flames — Donald Richardson, John Sykes, and Nate Burgess — recorded 'Dance With Me' with producers Jason Mizell and Stanley Brown for their self-titled debut album, released in 1990 on Columbia Records through the OBR imprint. Released as the second single from the debut album, 'Dance With Me' reached number 37 on the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart, following the group's breakout hit 'Watching You' and consolidating their reputation as one of New Jersey's most distinctive vocal harmony groups of the New Jack Swing era. The Black Flames' debut album, including 'Dance With Me', stands as a document of the hip-hop-inflected soul harmony style that emerged from Newark in the late 1980s, and the group is cited as an influence on the development of the smooth, vocal-led strand of New Jack Swing.