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According to Andrew Barker in Variety (March 22, 2011), Holloway performed with Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch to promote the single and she received full vocal credit as well as a share of the royalties. 1 hit when Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch featured her vocals in the chart-topping " Good Vibrations" (1991). Holloway's fortunes dramatically improved, however, when she had her first US No. There, she appeared billed as Cappella featuring Loleatta Holloway on the single "Take Me Away" (UK #25). In 1992, she had a hit with dance band Cappella. She successfully sued the group, which led to an undisclosed court settlement in her favor. Holloway, however, was uncredited for her vocals. In the late 1980s, her vocals from "Love Sensation" were used in the UK No. She also recorded one single, "So Sweet," for the fledgling house-music label DJ International Records. In the early 1980s, she had another dance hit with "Crash Goes Love" (#5 on the U.S. "Only You" was written and produced by Bunny Sigler, who also sang with Holloway on the track, and it reached No. However, it was a ballad that proved to be another big R&B hit for her. 18 of her songs charted on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, including four #1s. She contributed vocals to " Relight My Fire" for Dan Hartman, who then wrote and produced the title track of her fourth and final album for Gold Mind, Love Sensation (1980). 72 on the pop chart and launched her as a disco act. 25 R&B, but the B-side, "Dreaming," climbed to No. The first release from the album Loleatta was another Sam Dees ballad, "Worn Out Broken Heart," which reached No. Top Philadelphia arranger and producer Norman Harris signed Holloway in 1976 for his new label, Gold Mind, a subsidiary of New York's Salsoul Records. 68 on the Hot 100, but before the label could really establish Holloway, it went out of business. Her first single from the second album, the ballad, "Cry to Me" rose to No. Holloway recorded two albums for the label, both of them produced by Floyd Smith - Loleatta (1973) and Cry to Me (1975). In the early 1970s, Holloway signed a recording contract with the Atlanta-based soul music label Aware, part of the General Recording Corporation (GRC), owned by Michael Thevis. It was initially released on the Apache label, but was picked up for national distribution by Galaxy Records. Around this time, she met her future producer, manager, and husband Floyd Smith, and recorded " Rainbow ’71" in 1971, a Curtis Mayfield song that Gene Chandler had recorded in 1963. Holloway was also a cast member of the Chicago troupe of Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope. Holloway began singing gospel with her mother in the Holloway Community Singers in Chicago and recorded with Albertina Walker in the Caravans gospel group between 19.