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Hi-Five is an American R&B quintet based out of Waco, Texas who had a string of Top 5 hits in the early and mid 1990s, including the Billboard Hot 100 number one single I Like The Way (The Kissing Game). The group, which was formed in 1990, consisted of Tony Thompson, Roderick Pooh Clark, Marcus Sanders, Russell Neal, and Toriano Easley. Easley was later replaced by Treston Irby. Hi-Five was signed to Jive Records and released their first album, Hi-Five, in 1990. The album went multi-platinum and was produced by award-winning hitmaker Teddy Riley; it included such singles as I Just Can't Handle It, I Can't Wait Another Minute, and their biggest hit to date, I Like The Way (The Kissing Game), which went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Billboard R&B chart. The group enjoyed mainstream success and received comparisons to many of their R&B counterparts, namely New Edition. Hi-Five's second LP, Keep It Goin' On, came out in 1992. Though not as successful as their debut effort, several tracks from this album, including She's Playing Hard To Get and the R. Kelly-penned Quality Time got major airplay. Shortly after this album was released, Roderick Pooh Clark was involved in a near-fatal automobile accident. In 1993, Hi-Five emerged with a third album, Faithful, which featured the songs Unconditional Love and Never Should Have Let You Go. After Hi-Five disbanded around 1994, Thompson released a solo album, Sexsational. He scored a minor hit with I Wanna Love Like That. In ...

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