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The Boys Town Gang were a disco and hi-NRG band. Their popularity peaked in the 1980s, when the group reached number 5 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart with the single Cruisin' the Streets and number 4 in Britain and number 1 in the Netherlands with their cover of Can't Take My Eyes Off You.

In 1980 DJ Bill Motley saw an opportunity to form a group that catered to San Francisco's large gay clientele. In his search to form a group he auditioned hundreds of vocalists, both male and female. It was local cabaret singer Cynthia Manley who captured the lead spot.

The idea was originally for one 12" single, two tracks of high energy music. Motley, a huge Diana Ross fan, picked two Ashford & Simpson songs to form a medley for the A-side. And for the B-side he wrote a disco drama in four acts. A label was founded to release the two songs.

When "Remember Me/Ain't No Mountain High Enough" was released America was coming off of the "death to disco" trip. Clubgoers, especially the gay ones, had not stopped dancing; it was just that the high energy music of 1978 and 1979 was not being produced or released by late 1980 or early 1981. Immediately the song took off, Manley's gruff vocals propelled the song into the top of the club charts. The B-side was marginally popular, depending on where the people partied. The four-act explicit "Cruisin' The Streets" was a snapshot of Castro and Market Streets at sundown.

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