Force MDs

The Force MDs are an American R&B vocal group, that was formed in 1981 in Staten Island, New York. Although the group has old school hip hop roots, they are perhaps best known for two tunes that are widely considered 1980s quiet storm classics, "Tender Love" and "Love is a House". They are considered major forerunners of the new jack swing movement.

Origins

The band was originally named The L.D.s, and then became the Force MCs, but ultimately preferred the name Force MDs, which stood for 'Musical Diversity'. Though the group was not quite always as recognizable as other New York R&B acts when it first started, they were among the first R&B vocal groups to intermix doo-wop-affected singing with and sometimes over hip-hop beats.

The band was comprised by brothers Stevie D., Antoine "T.C.D." Lundy, and Rodney "Khalil" Lundy, along with their uncle Jessie Lee Daniels. (Later, friends "Trisco" Pearson and Charles "Mercury" Nelson from the Mariners Harbor projects on Staten Island, NY joined the group.)

Tender Love

"Tender Love" is a song by Force MDs. Written by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, the tune appeared in the 1985 film Krush Groove and was featured on the film's soundtrack. It also appeared on the group's second album Chillin'.

Although primarily known as a pre-new jack swing/old school hip hop band, the Force MDs introduced themselves to a whole new audience with this song. Not only did the song peak at number 4 on the R&B charts (where the group had already amassed a steady string of minor hits), but it also became a crossover hit, cracking the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 in the spring of 1986, becoming the group's only single to date to break the Pop top 40. On the Adult Contemporary chart, the song peaked at #2. The song was also a hit in the United Kingdom, reaching #23 in the UK Singles Chart. The tune was a major contributing factor to Jam & Lewis' winning a Grammy Award for Producer of the Year in 1986.

Chart positions

Samples/Covers

"Tender Love" has since been sampled by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony on their 1996 hit "Dayz of our Lives" and by 2 Much on their 2007 song "Hard Time" (later covered by Korean group Shinee). In addition, the tune has been covered in the studio by Jordan Knight, Usher, and Uncle Sam and in live performances by artists such as Alicia Keys, Backstreet Boys, Marsha Ambrosius, Kelly Rowland, and Marques Houston.

Force

In physics, a force is any interaction that, when unopposed, will change the motion of an object. In other words, a force can cause an object with mass to change its velocity (which includes to begin moving from a state of rest), i.e., to accelerate. Force can also be described by intuitive concepts such as a push or a pull. A force has both magnitude and direction, making it a vector quantity. It is measured in the SI unit of newtons and represented by the symbol F.

The original form of Newton's second law states that the net force acting upon an object is equal to the rate at which its momentum changes with time. If the mass of the object is constant, this law implies that the acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting on the object, is in the direction of the net force, and is inversely proportional to the mass of the object

Related concepts to force include: thrust, which increases the velocity of an object; drag, which decreases the velocity of an object; and torque, which produces changes in rotational speed of an object. In an extended body, each part usually applies forces on the adjacent parts; the distribution of such forces through the body is the so-called mechanical stress. Pressure is a simple type of stress. Stress usually causes deformation of solid materials, or flow in fluids.