Throwback Wednesdays: Cherrelle – Affair
In 1988, bad girl singer Cherrelle, who was R&B singer Pebbles’ cousin, dropped her 5th single “Affair” off her third album of the same title.
“Affair” became an instant dance hit and peaked at #4 on the charts. The vinyl 45 record was snatched up by single ladies everywhere off the strength of self assured lyrics like this: “I don’t need commitment/ I don’t need no man to tell me how to feel”
Check out the funky dance moves by the redhead in this video. I had every move down pat in 1988!
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@SANDRA ROSE
“…I don’t need no man to tell me how to feel…”
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No surprises that you would cite this particular verse.
Cherelle was my girl! I love her music. I’m so sorry things have turned out so badly for her.
UMMM I THINK I WASNT EVEN 1 WHEN SHE CAME OUT #87BABY
I Don’t remember this song
“Saturday Luv” wuz the Chit tho!
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday Satuurrday Love!
What cherrell was hot back in the day. Her and Alexander O’neal song still gets played on the radio and at parties
“Never on Sunday, Monday’s to soon, Tuesday and Wednesday just won’t do Thursday and Friday we can begin but our Saturday love will never end.. Suga”.
Cheryl Pepsi Riley still performs in the village. Remember Vesta (thanks for my child) oh please don’t let me start showing my age today.
And I’m an ’85 baby…but I love old school music. It’s 10X better that anything out now.
@Man…
High FIVE Dawg !!!
THIS should be very popular Ms. Sandra with the music scene being Sooooooo WEAK nowadays (Real…) I’ll be sending you some suggestions for future Wednesday(s)
*JOIN IN WITH CFREE*
SATURDAY LOVE, OOH, OHH, OHHH
NEVER ON SUNDAY..MONDAYS TO SOON, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY JUST WONT DO…THURDSAY AND FRIDAY WE CAN BEGIN..BUT OUR SATURDAY LOVE WILL NEVER ENDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD…..SUGAR
@RENE GIRL I WAS AN 87BABY WITH NO INGLISH UNTIL 1996 SO YEAH IM WAAAAAY LOST ON THIS SONG MIGHT LISTEN TO IT NOW THAT YALL MAKE IT SOUND GOOD
I have her and Alexander O’neil on my ipod now. She was actually on the Mo’nique show a couple of months ago and she looks great. She is touring I believe
ISCREAM…THANKS FOR MY CHILD IS MY SONG…HAVE THAT ONE THE IPOD AND THATS MY DAUGHTERS FATHER RINGTONE….LOL
OMG I forgot she sung “I didn’t mean to turn you on” that takes me back to the days of Hot Tracks. Lawd I remember that video with the big King Kong ape.
And “Everything I miss at home” is my JAM!!!!
I need to find the best of Cherrelle….
In the first pic she looks like a young Mimi, in the second pic she looks like Chili.
Man Cherelle was DA CHIT!! She had a nice voice. My fav song was Always with her and Pebbles and Johnny Gill (I think that was him at the end).
Boy, I never knew a love like you before
You came into my life and gave me more
You are my friend, also my man
And I love you always
You, you just don’t know what you’ve done for me
You gave me love and now I am complete
You are the sun
The only one
And I’ll love you always
Baby, don’t leave me
Don’t ever desert me
I promise my life to you
And I love you always… LOVE THIS SONG!!
I have to Goggle her. What happened to her? Does she have an Unsung?
HOMIE >>> Right Here <<<
“Always” is THAT MF-ing JAM !!!!!!!!!!
Now this is what I’m talking about.
I’m an ’81 baby and I remember all these. My favorite Vesta song was “Congratulations”.
Oooh y’all lucky I can’t sing to you through the computer.
We need to start giving suggestions for “Throwback Wednesdays.”
I nominate anything by:
NWA
Public Enemy
MC Hammer (I know, I know)
@MAN MCHAMMER FO REAL???
CANT TOUCH THIS!!! 
Isn’t Cherelle the one who was living with Whitney helping her spend all her ends, thus contributing to her “epiphany” fact that crack is indeed whack?
@Man…
My FAVORITE MC Hammer before he became the “Commercial” HAMMER (Real…)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-55YhmhVQcU
Shanice “I Love Your Smile”…
Tracie Spencer “Tender Kisses”…
Angela & Rene “My First Love”…
Almost anything by Atlantic Starr…
Sandra done started something now.
@Carrington
WE call them Running BUDDIES !!! 
Chea! ole school wat chall kno bout dat!! #thosdays
YSO – Vesta was the girl too, like Chaka.2
My little funny story about Congratulations….
So I’m at my cuz in laws HS graduation a few years ago and hubby is like theres my stalker ex that use to leave me those messages (it was on his pager back then..lol).
I’m like WHERE WHERE (thinking he was lying). After the ceremony we were walking out and then towards her. So she’s like Hey, how are you xyz. Hubby is like yeah, I’m good and you? This is my wife Shauny. This bish looked like her heart stopped. She’s like (voice cracking) wife..oh, nice to meet you.
When we walked away I’m like that bish looked like she’s going to go to her car and cry looking out the window singing Vesta…Congratulations, I thought it would’ve been me. It was hilarious!
OWWWWWWW Now this is what I am talking about and on a Hump Day
*sings with CFREE and MS*
@ Shauny
I thinks that’s Alexander O’neal singing at the end of that song and I loved that song also.
Do yall remember Shirley Murdock she sung go on without you. Lawd do I love me some old skol music.
@Y SO SERIOUS
“Shanice “I Love Your Smile”…
Tracie Spencer “Tender Kisses”…
Angela & Rene “My First Love”…
Almost anything by Atlantic Starr…
Sandra done started something now.
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**not too keen on “I Love Your Smile” tho…**
@ Shauny
It sounds a little sad too but I’m still over here laughing.
Go figure, “Saturday Love” is on the radio as I type this. I wonder if something happened to Cherrelle cause I ain’t heard chit by her in decades.
@ Man
Is there a Shanice song you do like? Another of my favorites is “Yesterday”.
I
Atlantic Star!
@YSO 81′babies!!!
@Y SO SERIOUS
“Is there a Shanice song you do like? Another of my favorites is “Yesterday”.
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She had more than one song?
83′ here and I don’t remember this song that well. Now MC Hammer!! We can talk about that
MINT CONDITION~
PRETTY BROWN EYES..U KNOW I SEE YOU..ITS A DISGUISE THE WAY U TREAT ME…
I loved Atlantic Starr BAD If Your Heatt Isn’t In It, Send For Me, Masterpiece and of course Secret Lovers and Always.
Shirley Murdock – As We Lay and Can’t Go On Without You…ahh, the good old days
Alexander ONeal – Sunshine (one of my alltime favs). His Sunshine and Babyface Sunshine..boy these songs.
Well I remember at least two.
@CFREE
“PRETTY BROWN EYES..U KNOW I SEE YOU..ITS A DISGUISE THE WAY U TREAT ME…”
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That was the jam.
@ Shauny
I looove “Sunshine”
She warms me with her heart of gold
I can’t go a day without my sunshine…
sigh.
i wasn’t born till the year after.
#feelingmadyoung
PLEASE don’t do Shanice’s “I Love Your Smile” I HATE that damn song! (now, when it used to come on the radio back in the day, I was “Butterflyin’ and Runnin’ Man’n” my a$$ off & wishin’ a motha fukka WOULD say somethin’)…
This song reminds me of the days of my flat top and polka dot shirts… it shames me, so I quit that b*tch everytime it comes on the radio!
Oh I love some Rose Royce too….
I’m Wishing on a Star, Love Don’t Live Here….
Mint Condition new song is HOT!! They can still turn it out live *sigh*
@ rene
Rose Royce
Don’t forget “I Wanna Get Next To You”.
MissHarlem says:
@ CARRINGTON its ok we all have those days when we thought we was killing the game only to look back at the pics and do the mean
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You ain’t NEVER lyin’! Back in Chicago in the early 90′s there was this shameful a$$ style where brothers were wearing the Morris Day hairstyle… cut real low with small, small curls in the back and then feathered in the front.
I went to my mom’s office when I went home to visit a few years back and she had the nerve to have that $hit at her desk with me sittin’ in a wicker chair!! What the hell?!?!!?
I had met all the people in her office and was feelin’ so good because the ladies were sayin’, “OMG, Pat – your son is so handsome!” then when I realized that they had all seen that picture of me lookin’ like a fake a$$ Anita Baker, I was mortified and too shame to walk past all of them on my way out.
I left with frame and the photo and dropped them both in the trash at McDonald’s. LMAO!
POW!
BROWNSUGAPOET says:
Oooon This Love Is So – AL B.Sure
POW!
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I heard, “Off On Your Own” on the radio this morning!
iscream says:
What cherrell was hot back in the day. Her and Alexander O’neal song still gets played on the radio and at parties
“Never on Sunday, Monday’s to soon, Tuesday and Wednesday just won’t do Thursday and Friday we can begin but our Saturday love will never end.. Suga”.
Cheryl Pepsi Riley still performs in the village. Remember Vesta (thanks for my child) oh please don’t let me start showing my age today.
WHEN DID VESTA DO THANKS FOR MY CHILD? I ONLY REMEMBER CHERYL’S VERSION.
I only remember one AL B. Sure Song “Night & Day”
I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I’m caught up in the the rapture of looove…
You been with me through changes
Like no other girl has done
You took all the chances
Knowin all the time that you were not the only one
But I want you to understaannnd baby
No matter where I go
What I do
Who I seeeeeeeeee
@ Munch
You’re correct that was Cheryl Pepsi Vesta sung congratulations.
Still
@ CARRINGTON if we didnt have those memories you wouldnt appreciate the handsome you know. I am also 
at the Morris Day hairstyle and if they had the comb in the pocket I cant be brought back to life. Well to me nothing is worse than the pics I have with the fingerwaves and me looking like I am killing it when in actuality I only kill myself lookin at that chit!!
@HARLEM, GIRL I HAD ONE WITH THE FREEZE CURLS AND BUN…WITH THE TRACK JACKET ON.
@MISSHARLEM~WHAT NEW SONG BY MINT CONDITION??? Gurl!I needs to know…
and yes, They are the best LIVE performance I’ve seen EVER I went to see them a few months back, performed like 10 songs never missing a note or beat! Live band and all! Luved it!
I loved me some Cherrelle, Pebbles, Sade, Janet Jackson and Jody Watley.
Oh, I can’t forget Karyn White.
MissHarlem says:
Well to me nothing is worse than the pics I have with the fingerwaves and me looking like I am killing it when in actuality I only kill myself lookin at that chit!!
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That’s comedy, but I think the same thing when I see some of the pictures of myself. If I come to your crib and you got pictures of me in the 90′s, you better not turn your back because there will be a missing spot in your photo album!
THICKUMS,
got my hair done for the prom and it was a style that pepa had right, well it was a pony tail, pin curls at the top, bangs and a looong piece down the side. So the week afer prom my now hubby (who i broke up with week before the prom and went alone) comes to my locker and tugs at my ponytail, why did that thang spin ALL THE WAY AROUND my head! Girl my piece that was on the right side was now on the left! Apparently the chick didnt put anough pins in!
THANKS ALOT REDD FROM MARYLAND!!!!!!!!!!!
karyn white superwoman is the shhhh! that needs to be the next throwback video
excuse me, REDD FROM BALTIMORE!!!!!!!!!!!
@ CFREE yes they are the best live like I swear I am on a whole nother planet. The single is from their album E-LIFE and although its not brand spanking new they still promote that album hard. I believe its Nothing left to say. GIRLLLLLL I had those jeans with the bang that I curled with the sponge roller *sigh*
@ MS Freeze curls with the track jacket and my bamboo earrings
@ CARRINGTON I die when my fam and friends break out the pics they even tag me on FB with them and I dont care because the evolution is amazing
Miss H you talkin bout “Nothin Left To Say”????
WITH THE KEDS IN EVERY COLOR
@kimip84 ROMANTIC is my jam.
@ BROWN yesss I actually love that album but in all honesty I love all the albums they come out with. I have been hooked on them so I am biased with them
I have loved them since day 1!
@Brown and @MissHarlem
Mint Condition is DA BIZNESS (Real…) Listening to “So Fine” NOW
Elove that song is a guaranteed
Oh and My Dear is one of those songs too!
YOU aint never lie they stay gettin the
guaranteed status
let us not forget about Insatiable
@Brown
By HIS Purple-Highness… OMG That’s a “Just LAY DOWN on the BED BABY”
The MAN don’t start ACTUALLY SINGING until the 1 minute mark and BY THEN … The PANTIES ARE ON THE FLOOR !!!
ELove as soon as I hear that music I’m naked! By the first Ooooh I’m ready!
That song was the ish.
Like I even knew what an affair was back then.
oh my goodness, I love Cherelle, and I love 80′s music…remember her first single with Alexander o’neal? INNOCENT..that was the JAM! they use to play that on Hot Tracks a lot too..yes i’m showing my age and i’m proud of it lol..Sandra please continue the throwbacks, I would really appreciate it.
I wonder how Pebbles feel if she listens to her own “Do you wanna ride in my Mercedes boy” now that she’s holy?
yeah, i remember this. she wore the hell out that red dress. production with cherelle was some of jam/lewis’ best work, other than ms. janet of course.
Oh man you recognize immediately the Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis production.
If you listen very carefully, you hear, it sounds a bit like Janet Jackson’s Control. Those were the days: A O’neill, SOS Band, Stephanie Mills, good quality music!!