Melba Moore - Mind Up Tonight (1985)Born Melba Hill to Alabamian musicians, Moore attended Newark Arts High School in Newark, New Jersey. She began her career in 1967 as a member of the original cast of the musical Hair along with Ronnie Dyson and Diane Keaton.
In 1970, Moore won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in Purlie (she portrayed Lutiebelle). In 1978 she appeared (as Marsinah) with Eartha Kitt in Timbuktu!
By the 1970s Moore started focusing on music with many hits in the late 1970s through to the mid 1980s. Her debut album, released in 1970 on Mercury Records, was I Am Love, followed by Look What You're Doing To The Man. Some of her other hits included, "Pick me up I'll Dance" (a major 1978 UK disco hit) which reached number 48 in the UK charts, "You Stepped Into My Life", "Love's Comin' At Ya" (UK #15) (also a big UK disco hit), "The Greatest Feeling", "A Little Bit More" and "Read My Lips". Moore often collaborated with R&B crooner, Freddie Jackson.
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