Switch: White Heat, Hot Ice and the DeBarge Brothers' 1981 Departure
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Switch: White Heat, Hot Ice and the DeBarge Brothers' 1981 Departure

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Switch came together in Mansfield, Ohio, around 1977, but Gregory Williams, Jody Sims and brothers Bobby and Tommy DeBarge had already failed twice. As White Heat they released a 1975 RCA album produced by Barry White, who then closed his production company and dropped them. Renamed Hot Ice, they recorded an album in 1976 that came out only in Germany in 1977. Adding Akron musicians Philip Ingram and Eddie Fluellen, they took a name from their stage act of trading instruments mid-set, and Williams and Sims flew to Los Angeles, where a demo reached Jermaine Jackson and Hazel Gordy and won a Gordy Records deal.

After an 18-month wait, their 1978 debut produced There Will Never Be, a top 10 R&B hit that reached number 36, their only Hot 100 top 40 entry. Hits like I Call Your Name and Love Over and Over Again followed before Bobby and Tommy left in 1981 to help their younger siblings launch DeBarge. Switch 5 came out that year, Ingram went solo in 1983, and a final album on Total Experience preceded the 1984 breakup. A 2003 reunion on the Tom Joyner Morning Show restarted touring.

  • Williams and Bobby DeBarge wrote most of the songs, with contributions from Sims and Jermaine Jackson.
  • Terrence Gaines and Attala Giles replaced the DeBarge brothers.
  • The final album was titled Am I Still Your Boyfriend.
  • Motown issued a Switch greatest hits compilation in 1991.
  • Bobby DeBarge died in 1995 at 39, Tommy DeBarge in 2021, and Eddie Fluellen in April 2025.

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