Milli Vanilli: Encyclopedia II - Milli Vanilli - The Truth Unveiled

Milli Vanilli - The Truth Unveiled

During a 'live' performance recorded by MTV at the Lake Compounce theme park in Connecticut, the recording of the song "Girl You Know It's True" jammed and began to skip, resulting in one of the most embarrassing moments in popular music history.

When Morvan and Pilatus pressured him to let them sing on the next album, Farian revealed the truth to reporters on November 15, 1990 that Morvan and Pilatus did not actually sing on the records and their voices were dubbed. Milli Vanilli's Grammy was withdrawn four days later, and Arista Records dropped the act from its roster and deleted their album and its masters from their catalog, making Girl You Know It's True the largest-selling album to ever be taken out of print. A court ruling in the U.S. allowed anyone who had bought the album to get a refund.

Farian released the group's second album under the name The Real Milli Vanilli, and the resulting LP Moment Of Truth spawned two singles, "Keep On Running" and "Too Late (True Love)". The album included three of the original singers from All Or Nothing/Girl You Know It's True: Brad Howell, John Davis, and Gina Mohammed, while replacing Brad Howe from the previous album with newcomer and Rob/Fab lookalike Ray Horton on four tracks. In addition, the album featured rapping from Icy Bro on "Hard As Hell" and Tammy T on "Too Late (True Love)". A single from this album by Diane Warren, "When I Die", was re-released by several other artists, including Farian's No Mercy.

The album experienced distribution problems with the BMG label, causing limited availability and low sales. Farian chose to re-record the album with Ray Horton singing all lead vocals, in 1992, as Try 'N' B. The US version (self-titled) included three additional tracks: "Ding Dong", "Who Do You Love", and a remake of Dr. Hook's "Sexy Eyes". The album received extensive distribution on RCA Records and was also released globally outside Europe, including Russia. The Russian version, titled Sexy Eyes, excluded "Keep On Running", "Body Slam", "The End Of Good TImes", "Nice 'N' Easy" from the US release and replaced them with "Cherish Your Love", "Keep On Pushing Me", "Family Affair", "Tell Me Why" and "Good Time".

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