American Reacts To: Mel & Kim - Respectable

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• TH

  @The.Android · 4 years ago

  RIP Mel (1966-1990).

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• BU

  @bubblingdownunder · 4 years ago

  The Mel & Kim story is a sad one, but amazingly, Mel became a pop star about a year after she was first treated for cancer!  So she at least got to achieve her dream of becoming a pop star during her short life, and having been seriously ill at a young age didn't stop her.  This song was huge and went to #1 all across Europe and Australia.

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• TE

  @tetsuan25 · 4 years ago

  This song was massive when it came out I played it to death.

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• MO

  @morbidsnails1913 · 4 years ago

  This takes me back, sadly Mel died in 1990 at the young age of 23.

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• MR

  @mral8145 · 4 years ago

  My sister and I, the whitest, Scottish siblings ever, used to do ‘shows’ for our family after Sunday lunch to every Mel and Kim song!  We loved them and our grandparents used to clap along, pretending they knew what was happening! 😂

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• SP

  @SpookyElectric319 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Loved them. Yes, they are sisters. RIP Mel.

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• TI

  @timglennon6814 · 4 years ago (edited)

  I feel old hearing this.<br>This song was released 18th February 1987. I was 15 years old.

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• FR

  @francislaverty9262 · 4 years ago

  Good to hear this if somewhat sad too. &nbsp;The sister duo had only 3 records released from their only album. Mel died in 1990 from pneumonia secondary to metastatic paraganglioma at the age of 23. Both were of British and Jamaican heritage. &nbsp;You have certainly been busy Tysheen with your postings...don&apos;t overdo it girl you&apos;re worth waiting for

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• BA

  @BaljitSingh-d2x · 7 months ago

  By far too underated &nbsp;.

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• CA

  @carstens.1844 · 4 years ago

  R.I.P<br>MEL

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• RO

  @Rockaria23 · 4 years ago

  Kim was 5 years older than Mel. This was Number 1 here in the UK in 1987.

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• EK

  @eklektikTechno · 3 years ago (edited)

  This was during the peak of House Music it had left Chicago and started spreading all over Europe, I was 18 living in Chicago during this era and i remember Mel and Kim’s Showing Out Get Fresh and yes they’re sisters

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