Debbie Gibson

Her discography includes:.
. The March 2005 issue of Playboy features a nude pictorial with Gibson, the release of which co-incides with the release of her new single, "Naked.". In 2004, Jim Kale started touring with his version of the Guess Who (known as the "Klones" by Cummings), Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings are planning on touring as the Bachman-Cummings Band in the summer of 2005 with Toronto's The Carpet Frogs. In October 2002, she began work in the play Chicago in Boston. For lead vocalist Cummings, it was a privilege to receive the doctorate, since he did not graduate from high school. She also participated in a national tour with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, where she played the character of The Narrator, and as Cinderella in the national tour of the play of the same name. In 2001, a year after the Guess Who went on a cross-Canada national tour, the band received honourary doctorates at Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba.

She also participated in the Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast (as Belle), and Gypsy at The Papermill Playhouse (as Gypsy Rose Lee). The Guess Who broke up in 1975, but a new incarnation has since been formed and continues to tour in the tradition of the group and sound Cummings made famous. She also played Fanny Brice in the Funny Girl touring production. The Guess Who continued with more hit singles such as "Share The Land" and "Clap For The Wolfman" (an homage to disc jockey Wolfman Jack, who incidentally, lent his own voice to the recording). Upon returning to the States, she also participated on the Broadway version of the 1950s musical, but this time she played Rizzo. Group differences led Randy Bachman to leave the group, return to Winnipeg, and form Brave Belt, which eventually evolved into the hit group Bachman Turner Overdrive. Then, she went to London, where she landed the character of Sandy on London's West End's theatrical production of Grease. By the beginning of the 1970s, the group moved towards an edgier hard-rock sound with the album "American Woman", which featured among its tracks the title song (the only Number One hit the group had in the U.S.), "When Friends Fall Out" (a short ditty that was sort of a cross between Strawberry Alarm Clock, Jefferson Airplane and the Lennon Sisters), and the Top Ten hit "No Time".

After her popularity as a pop singer waned, she returned to Broadway in 1992, playing Eponine in Les Misérables. 1969's "These Eyes" was the group's first Top Ten hit under new group leader Burton Cummings. In 1989, at the peak of her popularity, she was the subject of a satirical song by Mojo Nixon, entitled "Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two-headed Love Child". As the group lineup changed, so did their sound. By this time, she and Tiffany, with her remake of "I Think We're Alone Now", were fighting for the top position as teen queen of the United States. The band was originally known as "Chad Allan & The Expressions" before their record label tried a stunt of hiding the name of the band with the words "Guess Who?" The reception proved so positive that the name stuck. Her initial success was followed by another smash hit in "Out Of The Blue". They were the first Canadian rock group to have a No.1 hit on the American Music Charts.

Another single of hers, "Only In My Dreams", also made it to the top. The Guess Who is a Canadian rock music band from Winnipeg, Manitoba that was one of the first to establish a major successful following in their own country as well as abroad in the late 1960s and early 1970s. When Gibson turned 16, she was signed to a recording contract by Atlantic Records, and soon she became the youngest person ever to write, record and produce a number 1 hit, with her single "Foolish Beat", going up to number one. The Guess Who's iTunes Music Store album list  (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?artistId=216203) (requires iTunes to be installed). When she was 12, Gibson was already performing in Broadway, but as an actress. Excellent Guesswhooligan web site (http://guesswhofans.com). When she was eight, she sang at the children's chorus in the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, where she got to meet such singers as Plácido Domingo and others. Steiss's Guess Who Site (includes lyrics of most Guess Who songs) (http://www.ghg.net/bnsteiss).

At the age of five, she and her sisters began performing in a community theater, and she wrote her first song. Mark Chadbourne's All Hashed Out Guess Who web site (http://community-2.webtv.net/mmchadbourne/AHO). Gibson was born in 1970 in Brooklyn, New York. Vance Masters' website (http://www.members.shaw.ca/vancemasters). During the time she was a teen idol, she became known to the world as Debbie Gibson, although she prefers to be called Deborah. Greg Leskiw's website (http://www.swingsoniq.com/). Deborah Ann Gibson (born August 31, 1970) is an American singer who was, along with Tiffany in the late 1980s, a very popular teen idol who appeared on the cover of teen magazines such as Tiger Beat multiple times. Donnie McDougall's website (http://www.duckrecords.com).

Hit single with Craig McLachlan: "You're the One That I Want" (1993, #13 UK). Bill Wallace's website (http://www.beancakes.com).