Starland Vocal Band

Starland Vocal Band was an American rock band. She was known primarily through her ​​song Afternoon Delight from the year 1976.

The members of the group included the couple Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, the (later Bill and Taffy ) under the name Fat City first appeared as a duo. Together, the pair wrote the pieces I Guess He'd Rather Be in Colorado and Take Me Home, Country Roads, with whom John Denver was able to achieve great success; the latter song is the unofficial anthem of West Virginia.

In 1974, Danoff and Nivert founded with vocalist Margot Chapman and the piano player and singer Jon Carroll, the band Starland Vocal Band.

On their debut album Starland Vocal Band (1976 ) the piece Afternoon Delight was included, which includes two weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 held in the United States. The group was nominated for five Grammy Awards and was successful in two categories: Best Arrangement for Voices and Best New Artist. The second album Rear View Mirror (1977 ) was relatively unsuccessful.

The band members moderated in the summer of 1977, the vaudeville show, The Starland Vocal Band Show, which ran on CBS for six weeks. This occurred alongside the then unknown David Letterman, inter alia, Mark Russell, Jeff Altman, and Proctor and Bergman on.

The group broke apart in 1980, after she was unable to repeat their earlier success. Danoff and Nivert divorced shortly thereafter. Each of the band members started a solo career.

In the Simpson episode " In honor of Murphy " Homer Simpson has a heart with the band name tattooed on his arm.