1985
After
years of touring, fronting the band "Sheree", starring
in the CBC-TV musical "The King Of Friday Night" and
working as a session vocalist for many artists, including Gordon
Lighfoot and Glass Tiger, Sheree Jeacocke releases her first
single entitled You
Get To Me
(CTLS2025) on the Canadian Talent
Library label.
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1986
Her first
album, Feel It (SJ-001) is
released on the Canadian Talent Library label, earning her a
nomitation for "Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year"
at the 17th annual Juno Awards, in Canada.
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1989
Her first
album for BMG, the self-titled Sheree (KCD1-0602 /3033-2-R) is released on the RCA
label.
The first single,
Woman's
Work
(7":
PB-51040 /9289-7-R - 12": KD-10030 /2802-1-RD - CDS: JBCD-51040) becomes her biggest
hit as a lead vocalist, hitting the Canadian Top 10 in February
1990. The song is later reprised by Tina Arena, among others.
Other tracks
on the album are Before
We Fall,
Bang
On,
Forever
You, Forever Me (with Fonzi Thornton), Heart
Stand Still,
Exceptional
Lovers,
I
Dream About You, Big
Time Love,
Too
Much Talk,
Heartache and Woman's
Work (dance mix).
The
album is re-issued shortly after it's release with slightly different
artwork.
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1990
Before
We Fall (7":
PB-51054 - CDS: JBCD-51054), Bang
On (7": PB-51062 -
CSS: PK-51062)
and Forever
You, Forever Me (7":
PB-51067)
are the next singles released off Sheree.
None achieve
the chart success of Woman's Work but all receive good radio airplay,
while DJ's are serviced with the great Hit
Me With It Mix of Bang
On (12": JD-10034).
She also participates
to the Best Guy (BVCR-25) movie soundtrack, released in Japan, on which
she sings Best
Guy,
Woman's
Work
(3":
BVDP-2 - 12": BVCP-9003), Bang
On
and Where
Do We Go From Here?.
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1993
Sheree
returns with her second and last album for BMG, Miss My Love
(74321-14327-2
/BVCA-623),
this time on the Arista label and using her full name.
Miss
My Love (CDS: KCDP-51149) becomes the first single
and is followed by Serious (CSS:
PK-51179 - CDS: KCDP-51178), featuring new mixes of the song, with proceeds
from the sale of the single being donated to the Canadian Association
for AIDS Research.
Other tracks on the album are Everybody Needs A Love, No-One
Else,
Our
Love,
Could
It Be I'm Fallin', What
She Wants,
Givin'
My All,
Touch
Sensitive
and I
Must Have Left My Heart.
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1994
The last
radio single off Miss My Love is Everybody
Needs A Love.
Arista
really misses the boat by not releasing her radio-friendly cover
of The Spinners' Could It Be I'm Fallin', as it possesses
multi-format appeal.
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1995
Without
a recording contract, Sheree releases the 5-track Jeacocke
(SJCD-0001) EP on her own Sheree Music label.
The first release is the J-Cockin' Club Mix of Jean Knight's Mr.
Big Stuff,
followed by So
This Is Love.
Other tracks on the mini-album are When
In Rome,
a cover of Gladys Knight's Midnight
Train To Georgia as well as an updated
version of
Woman's
Work.
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1996
A new
single by Pleasure Beat featuring J-Cock, a dance cover of Robin
Beck's First
Time
(QCDS7208) is released on Quality
Records, followed by Alanis Morisette's Hand
In My Pocket.
Shortly after, still on Quality, but this time as J-Cock, she
releases Stevie Wonder's Sunshine Of My Life (QCDS7276) without much success and then as Deeva, Queen's
We
Will Rock You.
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1998
Sheree
sings background vocals on two songs off the Blues Brothers
2000 (Universal:
USSD53116)
movie soundtrack: Cheaper
To Keep Her
and 634-5789.
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2001
Finkleman's
45s: The Doug Riley Sessions Live from the Montreal Bistro (FF01) features Sheree Jeacocke
on two tracks: Ya-Ya and Theme From Moulin Rouge.
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2002
Sheree's
vocals are featured on the latest Jaypaul Project CD entitled
The Story Of My Life.
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