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Chakademus, left, and Pliers.Chakademus and Pliers' international career is about to benefit from a second gust of success thanks to their flagship hit, Murder She Wrote.
The song is again in the reckoning after being featured in the soundtrack of the current number one box office movie in United States cinemas, Save The Last Dance For Me.
The soundtrack album, released on the Hollywood label, was last week's Greatest Gainer on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart, jumping from its debut position of 76 to number 41.
The film opened in U.S. cinemas on Friday, January 12 and has been the number one box office hit every week since.
It tells the story of a girl from a Midwest U.S. town, played by Julia Styles, who moves to the Southside of Chicago after her mother dies and falls in love with an African-American teenager (Sean Patrick Thomas).
Save The Last Dance has already made US$46 million in two weeks in U.S. cinemas. Last week alone it made US$23.4 million.
Dennis Wright, who currently manages Chakademus and Pliers, thinks that the success of the film will revive interest in the song and eventually their career.
Mr. Wright said he was disappointed that in the credits Taxi's Lloyd Willis was omitted as co-producer with Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare.
Formerly with Island Records, the duo has had five singles which have topped the United Kingdom charts - Murder She Wrote, Tease Me, Twist and Shout, I Wanna Be Your Man and She Don't Let Nobody.
Despite that success, however, they have said that only Murder She Wrote, which was also a huge hit in the United States, has materialised into serious financial benefits to them.
Last year they joined French label Unexpected Entertain-ment for whom they recorded a new album.
They also collaborated with world famous singer/actor Harry Belanfonte on a remix of his Woman Smarter.
Balford Henry
