The Weather Girls
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Martha Wash at Gröna Lund in 2008.
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| Also known as | Two Tons O' Fun, and later The Two Tons |
| Origin | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1977–1985, 1999–present |
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| Website | www |
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The Weather Girls, also known as Two Tons o' Fun (especially during the early portion of their career), is an American musical duo formed in San Francisco, California in 1977, originally composed of singers Izora Armstead and Martha Wash. The duo charted several dance hits over the course of its career, with its peak in popularity having occurred in 1982, when the group released the hit song "It's Raining Men."
The rights to the name "The Weather Girls" are currently held by Dynelle Rhodes, the daughter of founding Weather Girl, Izora Armstead, and the band consists of Rhodes and Ingrid Arthur.
The original members of the group were Martha Wash and Izora Rhodes (later known by her married name, Izora Armstead). Though the mainstream pop market considers the team a one-hit wonder for "It's Raining Men" (though the song did not make the Top 40 in the US, peaking at #46 on the Billboard Hot 100), they recorded three songs which peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart under the "Two Tons o' Fun" name: "Earth Can Be Just Like Heaven" (1980); "Just Us" (1980 and also made #29 on the US R&B chart); and the Hi-NRG song "I Got the Feeling" in 1981. They were brought together by Sylvester as his backing group (from 1977 to 1981), who also gave them the name 'Two Tons O' Fun.' They are best known for their 1982 #1 club and pop hit, "It's Raining Men", the recording of which music producer Paul Jabara supervised and from which the name "The Weather Girls" was derived. After the success of "It's Raining Men", other hits by the original line-up (which adopted the Weather Girls moniker permanently after the hit) included "Dear Santa (Bring Me a Man this Christmas)", for which, as with "It's Raining Men", an accompanying music video was made, and "No One Can Love You More Than Me." In total, Wash and Rhodes released 5 albums overall, 2 albums recorded as Two Tons (1980's Two Tons O' Fun and 1981's Backatcha) and a further 3 albums as The Weather Girls (the 1982 album Success, 1985's Big Girls Don't Cry and 1988's The Weather Girls.)
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