(July 29, 2025) Reginald and Vincent Calloway helped to construct the soundtrack of the lives of people who came to age in the 1980s and early 90s, as members of the funk band Midnight Star, the sibling duo Calloway, and as songwriters and producers for a host of notable acts of the period. Odds are that you were jamming to the work of Reggie and Vincent Calloway even if you didn’t know it.
The Calloways helped propel Midnight Star to popular and critical success by fusing sleek synthesizers and vocoder vocal with memorable and danceable bass lines on tracks such as “Freak-a-Zoid,” “Electricty” and the title track from their 1983 breakout album No Parking on the Dance Floor. Midnight Star could make you move when they gave you the musical green light, but the band could also pull into the slow lane for a few passionate minutes, as they proved with the ballad “Slow Jams.”
The Calloway brothers remain busy to this day as producers and performers. Now, Reggie and Vincent Calloway return with their latest song “6 Pack,” the song featured in this First Listen. The tune finds Calloway returning to the sound that gave fans so much joy, percolating, bumping bass lines, space age synths and the vocoder. “6 Pack” is a cut that listeners can work up a sweat to while working out. However, they are concerned about more than washboard abs. “6 Pack” is about developing the mental, social, emotional, financial, and spiritual cores too. Check “6 Pack” out here.
By Howard Dukes
