The Producers (band)
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This article is about the 1980s new wave band. For the 1968 movie, see The Producers.
The Producers were a new wave and power pop band from Atlanta, Georgia in the 1980s. Originally formed as a Beatles cover band, they changed musical directions and began performing their own material in nightclubs. The response to their music was so good that they were signed to CBS subsidiary Portrait Records. They released two albums for the Portrait label, The Producers (1981) and You Make the Heat (1982). The Producers quickly became a regional favorite in the southeastern United States, propelling "What She Does to Me" onto the national Billboard Magazine singles charts. "She Sheila" from their second album was a popular MTV video.
Despite this success, Portrait Records dropped the band after only two albums. Kyle Henderson became a born-again Christian and left the band to record a solo album for Kerry Livgren's Christian rock label, Kerygma Records. The next Producers album, Run For Your Life, was released in 1985 on a small Atlanta-based independent label. That album featured a collaboration between The Producers and Kansas, "Can't Cry Anymore," a song which appeared on both Run For Your Life and the 1986 Kansas album Power. The Producers regained a major label contract in the late 1980s with A&M Records and recorded what was to be their fourth album, Coelacanth, but the band was one of several dropped in a 1989 label purge at A&M before the album could be released. Coelacanth was finally released in 2001.
