(Annoyed Grunt).” Rarely pointed out, though, is the fact that the cast of backing vocalists on the song includes a who’s-who of Marrero’s Kids Incorporated co-stars: Ferguson sings on the cut, as do Rahsaan Patterson, and Renee Sands (who’d go on to be a member of the late-‘90s pop trio Wild Orchid alongside Ferguson). The song would deservedly go all the way to Number One and would later be revived in sample form – returning to the Top 40 in the process – in the Eminem song “Like Toy Soldiers” from Encore and would unexpectedly also pop up in The Simpsons in the episode “G.I.
The most famous of these is the haunting ballad “Toy Soldiers,” an unforgettable and surprisingly deep song written about a friend of Martika’s who was battling drug addiction. Martika’s self-titled debut – produced by Michael Jay – is a very fun disc that would spawn three major hits. But while Hewitt and Lopez continue to pop up regularly on television and Ferguson’s music – both her solo work and her inescapable party jams with the Black Eyed Peas such as “I Gotta Feeling” and “Let’s Get It Started” – has kept her on the radio regularly even during her long breaks, the show’s second-most successful recording star of all, former Annie co-star Marta “Martika” Merrero, who played Gloria during the first three seasons, has sadly become somewhat forgotten to time. Future R&B star Shanice (“Saving Forever for You,” “I Love Your Smile,” “When I Close My Eyes”) was a regular during the show’s first season, as was actor and television host Mario Lopez, best known for playing A.C.
R&B artist Rahsaan Patterson – who’s also responsible for writing Brandy’s Top Five smash “Baby” – played Kid from the show’s inception through the fourth season. Stacy Ferguson – better known to the public as simply “Fergie,” the Black Eyed Peas member who’d go solo to wild commercial success with The Dutchess and such hit singles as “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Glamorous,” “Clumsy” and “London Bridge” – was a cast member for the show’s first six seasons, while actress Jennifer Love Hewitt (best known for her roles in TV’s Party of Five and Ghost Whisperer and the big-screen blockbuster I Know What You Did Last Summer) joined the cast for the show’s fifth and sixth seasons, playing Robin. Even more fuss is made in print media over the fact that mega-superstars Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Christina Aguilera are all former cast members of The New Mickey Mouse Club (as are actress Keri Russell from Felicity and The Americans, film star Ryan Gosling of The Notebook and La La Land fame, and Timberlake’s *NSync bandmate JC Chasez.) īut the much-less-well-known children’s show, Kids Incorporated, a musical sitcom which ran from 1984 to 1993 (initially in syndication for its first two seasons before moving to the Disney Channel for its final seven seasons) and the plot of which revolved around a group of young teenagers who start a cover band and regularly perform at a local kids’ hangout called The P*lace, nearly rivals The New Mickey Mouse Club for the number of future stars who can claim to have appeared on the show. Much is made about the fact that both former Wizards of Waverly Place actress Selena Gomez (who has since gone on to massive success as a recording artist with such hits as “Good for You,” “Hands to Myself,” “Come & Get It,” “Same Old Love” and “Who Says”) and former Sonny with a Chance actress Demi Lovato (who has similarly graduated to the role of pop star with such hits as “Cool for the Summer,” “Confident,” “Heart Attack,” and the surprisingly fantastic power-pop-flavored “Here We Go Again”) got their start as child actors on Barney & Friends.
Albums from the Lost & Found is a regular feature on in which contributor Jeff Fiedler reviews and helps us rediscover great pop albums that seem to have been lost to time.
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