If you were growing up in the 70's and 80's, and listening to the radio, the Pointer Sisters were ubiquitous; their songs saturated the airwaves. There was not a time that I didn't enjoy one of their many hits, and this blog will focus on the singles of their Triple Platinum album Break out . When the Pointers were recording songs for what would become Break Out , they were already stars in their own right. They had a Grammy to their name for Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group for a song that they wrote called Fairytale . They had amassed several gold singles and gold albums, and they had a massive hits in the early 80's with songs like He's So Shy and Slow Hand . The album, prior to Break Out, was entitled So Excited. The first single off the album was the snoozer American Music , which charted in the Pop Top Twenty. The song's sluggish performance affected the second single that was released entitled I'm S