New Kids on the Block's second album, Hangin ' Tough, was released to modest fanfare in September.

Sales of Hangin ' Tough steadily increased as the group's national attention slowly rose.

More top five singles from Hangin ' Tough followed into the summer and fall, including the title track and " Cover Girl ".

By the end of 1989, Hangin ' Tough had climbed to number one on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart and had gone eight-times platinum.

Columbia Music Video also released a home video " Hangin ' Tough ", a documentary on the band directed by Doug Nichol and produced by Bryan Johnson, that included their four hit music videos and a live concert recorded during their 1989 tour.

The following May, they followed up Hangin ' Tough with Step by Step, which featured slightly more than half of the songs co-written and produced by the members themselves.

* Hangin ' Tough ( 1988 )

*" Hangin ' Tough " by New Kids On The Block

The first was " Hangin ' Tough " by the boyband New Kids on the Block, which became the group's second chart-topper.

They released a total of 3 albums and 6 singles ( not including " Hangin ' Tough ") during the course of the year.

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Their debut single " Hangin ' Tough " initially stalled early in the summer, but it was the follow-up " You Got It ( The Right Stuff )" that went straight in at # 1 in the Autumn.

It would stay there for three weeks, paving the way for a re-release of " Hangin ' Tough " in January 1990, and the multi-platinum success of their debut album of the same name.

The reformed group's MySpace webpage confirmed that a new single would be released 24 April entitled " Hangin ' Around ".

Early songs with disco elements include " You Keep Me Hangin ' On " ( The Supremes, 1966 ), " Only the Strong Survive " ( Jerry Butler, 1968 ), " Message to Love " ( Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys, 1970 ), " Soul Makossa " ( Manu Dibango, 1972 ), Eddie Kendricks ' Keep on Truckin ' ( 1973 ) and " The Love I Lost " by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes ( 1973 ).

* Hangin ' With The Heroes ( 2001 – 2004 ): Aired on weekends, later on weekdays, and featured Aladdin, Gargoyles, and Hercules: The Animated Series.

She made a guest role as herself on Hangin ' with Mr. Cooper in 1993.

On March 29, 2011, the band appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and performed " You Keep Me Hangin ' On ".

Four of its cuts made the country music charts based on seasonal airplay: the title track, " Hangin ' ' round the Mistletoe ", " Rockin ' Little Christmas " and a rendition of " Winter Wonderland ".

Lanegan appeared on the 2002 release entitled Songs for the Deaf, once again singing lead on the tracks " Song for the Dead ", " Hangin ' Tree ", and " God Is on the Radio ".

He also has made guest appearances on television shows such as Chicago Hope and Hangin ' with Mr. Cooper and has made several cameos in music videos throughout the 90s.

Hangin ' with Mr. Cooper is an American television sitcom that originally aired on ABC from 1992 to 1997, starring Mark Curry and Holly Robinson.

ABC actually intended to bring back Hangin ' with Mr. Cooper and Step By Step to TGIF for the 1996 – 97 season as midseason replacements if freshmen series Sabrina the Teenage Witch and / or Clueless were cancelled ( Clueless was cancelled by February and was replaced by Step by Step by March, Clueless was picked up by UPN the next season ; while Sabrina lasted four seasons on ABC, before being picked up by The WB in 2000, where it spent its last three seasons ).

Hangin ' with Mr. Cooper was the only TGIF show that ABC cancelled after the 1996-97 season ( Step by Step and Family Matters were the only others ) that was not picked up by CBS when that network attempted a TGIF-style comedy lineup on Fridays called the " CBS Block Party ".

In July 2009 Wax reunited, announcing the release of Hangin ' On, a 7 " vinyl record featuring four unreleased songs that were originally intended to appear on 13 Unlucky Numbers.

She appeared in guest starring roles on many United States television programs from the 1970s through the 1990s, including Punky Brewster, Hangin ' with Mr. Cooper, A Different World, Murder, She Wrote, The Love Boat, 227, and Beat the Clock.

Hangin ' In is a Canadian television sitcom which aired on CBC from 1981 to 1987.

In two years, the band had performed 185 shows and recorded a total of 32 songs ( 28 released officially, 4 on the bootlegged EP Plea for Peace ), as well as songs which were recorded only as demos, such as " Hedgecore " ( about a favorite pastime of the band which involved artfully jumping into manicured bushes ), " Hangin ' Out ", " Sarcastic " and " Left Behind ".

* The ballad " Hangin ' Downtown " was sampled by Oran Juice Jones on his song " Make Love to Your Mind ", by Shareefah on her song " Fevah ( He don't know " and more famously by DJ Premier for Group Home's " Supa Star ".

" Love Is Only Sleeping " and " Cuddly Toy " play " Star Collector " and " What Am I Doing Hangin ' ' Round " when bought from the 1995 version of the album on the iTunes Store.

The first, " No Memories Hangin ' Around ", a duet with country singer Bobby Bare, reached 17 on the Country Singles chart in 1979.

With a cover of the Supremes ' 1967 hit " Reflections ", updated in her Hi-NRG style, Thomas peaked at # 18 on the Hot Dance Music / Club Play chart in 1986, the same year in which Kim Wilde had a similarly styled hit with the Supremes ' " You Keep Me Hangin ' On ".

They achieved their first success with " Hangin ' on a String ( Contemplating )" in 1985, which reached # 13 in the UK chart.

" Hangin ' on a String " also reached # 1 on the U. S. Billboard R & B chart, making Loose Ends the first British band ever to top that chart.

Nesmith asked Murphey to write them a song for the next Monkees album, and Murphey composed " What Am I Doing Hangin ' Round.

In addition to the title track, the album included " Boy from the Country ", " What Am I Doin ' Hangin ' Around?

In 2002, a 30th anniversary edition of the album was released ; in addition to demos of " Hangin ' Round " and " Perfect Day ", it includes a hidden track featuring an advert for the album.

In 2003 the band started recording favourite covers that had inspired the band in its early days, including songs such as " Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town ", " Lonesome Train ", " Hangin Five ", with a view to releasing an album under the title Songs the Lord Tortoise.

I Confess album highlights included the single " Just So You Know ", a Don Was-produced cover of the Holland-Dozier-Holland classic " You Keep Me Hangin ' On " and Dr. Dre's mix of " Jumping Jack ".

Carrington's first album, Hangin ' with Rodney, was released in 1998 via Mercury Records Nashville.

It was originally released as the B-side to " Hangin ' Around ", but the two were soon reversed by the label when disc jockeys nationwide in the USA as well as in the Canada were inundated with phone calls and realized this was the hit.

She didn't appear on the two shows concurrently-she left A Different World to star in Hangin ' with Mr. Cooper.

Kirk was one of only two series produced by Bickley-Warren Productions and Jeff Franklin Productions that was not produced by Miller-Boyett Productions ( the other being Hangin ' with Mr. Cooper, which William Bickley and Michael Warren served as showrunners / executive producers during that series ' final three seasons ).

The two also made two guest appearances on Hangin ' with Mr. Cooper in 1995 and 1996, as well as the 2003 movie The Blues, which turned out to be Santana's last film appearance before his death.