Franke & the Knockouts released three albums in the early '80s before being counted out. The band's first two records Franke and the Knockouts (1981) and Below the Belt (1982) were on Millennium records, whose big claim to fame was Meco and the insufferable disco reworking of John Williams' "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band" back in 1977. The label would fold after the band's second album and MCA would pick up the band, and then not know what to do with their third and final album Makin' the Point (1984). The band's debut single "Sweetheart" would crack the top 20 in Canada, and hit the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Their next album Below the Belt contained "Without You (Not Another Lonely Night)" that sat just outside the top 40 here, and went as high as 24 on the Billboard chart. The third album's lone single "Outrageous" didn't make any ripples. That would be it, and the band would be relegated to being ...
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