D Train (music group)

D Train
Origin	New York City, United States
Genres	Post-disco, soul
Instruments	D Train (vocals) Hubert Eaves III (keyboards, bass, drums)
Years active	1980–1985
Labels	Prelude Records Columbia/CBS Records
Past members	James "D Train" Williams Hubert Eaves III

D Train was an American duo that scored several significant hits on both the Billboard Dance and R&B charts during the first half of the 1980s.

The project was a collaborative effort between the band's namesake, James D-Train Williams, who was featured as the lead vocalist and songwriter, and Hubert Eaves III, a keyboardist, who performed the instrumentation on the recordings. Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, Williams himself was a R&B-dance producer as well. He and Eaves met during high school and began performing together. Eaves would spend most of the 1970s as a member of the R&B band Mtume. However, by the 1980s, he and DJ had teamed up again. The group named itself D-Train after a nickname Williams had acquired in high school.

D Train released its first single "You're the One for Me" in late 1981. The track became an instant success, hitting #150 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart that year; it was remixed and re-released successfully several times since and was contemporaneously covered by Paul Hardcastle with vocalist Kevin Henry in the United Kingdom. The duo's self-titled debut album (which prominently featured the "You're the One for Me" title on the front cover, and the album became known by this name) followed in early 1982, and several additional singles from this effort were successful on both the R&B and Dance charts, although they were not as popular as the debut hit. Among these tracks were "Keep On", which reached #2 on the Dance chart, and a cover version of the Burt Bacharach- and Hal David-penned "Walk On By", which owed more to the Isaac Hayes version than to Dionne Warwick's original recording.

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