Tané McClure

Tané McClure

McClure in November 2007
Born (1958-06-08) June 8, 1958
Los Angeles County, California, U.S.
Occupation Actress, singer
Years active 1982-present
Parent(s) Doug McClure & Faye Brash
Relatives Valerie McClure (sister)

Tané M. McClure[1] (born June 8, 1958) is an American singer and actress.

Biography

McClure was born in Los Angeles County, California.[1] She is the daughter of actor Doug McClure and Faye Brash, the first of his five wives.[2] She has a half-sister, Valerie, from her father's marriage to his fourth wife, Diane Soldani, in the 1970s.[3]

McClure made a cameo appearance on her father's Western television series The Virginian at age five.[3] Raised in Hawaii, McClure moved to Northern California and, at age 17, began singing in a Latin jazz band called Sweet Honesty.[3][4] She recorded her first single, "Redwood City", in the late 1970s, and soon thereafter met The Babys and Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain, whom she married.[3][4]

Moving with him to Los Angeles, she landed a record deal in 1982 and released a self-titled album on RCA Records.[4] A Billboard review of the album described her as "an artist to watch" and remarked that she "looks incredibly beautiful on the LP cover. Then you put it on and find out that she can sing just as well."[5] Allmusic's Alex Henderson wrote that "the material - most of it sleek, commercial pop/rock that was co-produced and co-written by Jonathan Cain and has a Pat Benatar-ish quality - is generally excellent."[6]

McClure disliked comparisons to Benatar, preferring to identify herself with her idol Grace Slick.[4] The album's first single, "Danger Zone", failed to chart, but the follow-up, "Holdin' On", peaked at number 37 on the Billboard Hot 100.[7] The album did not sell as well as the label had hoped (peaking at number 121 on the Billboard album chart),[7] and she was dropped, never to release another album.[4] She did, however, contribute three songs to the Terminator Soundtrack in 1984. She also recorded demos for a second album in 1985, which were eventually leaked several years later to multiple AOR blogspots.[8]

During the latter half of the 1980s and through the 1990s, McClure starred in more than two dozen sexploitation films.[9] She also played the mother of Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) in Legally Blonde (2001) and its sequel, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003).[9]

Discography

Studio album

Title Album details Peak chart positions[7]
US
Tané Cain
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: RCA
  • Format: LP
 121

Singles

Title Year Peak chart positions[7] Album
US
"Danger Zone" 1982 — Tané Cain
"Holdin' On" 1982 37
"—" denotes release that did not chart.

Filmography

References

  1. 1 2 "Tane M McClure, Born 06/08/1958". California Birth Index. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
  2. ↑ Joel Whitburn, The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. 7th edn, 2000
  3. 1 2 3 4 "New On the Charts". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 94 (34): 25. August 28, 1982. ISSN 0006-2510.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Henderson, Alex. "Tane Cain - Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Top Album Picks". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 94 (35): 62. September 4, 1982. ISSN 0006-2510.
  6. ↑ Henderson, Alex. "Tane Cain - 'Tane Cain'". Allmusic. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Tane Cain - Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
  8. ↑ http://aornightdrive.blogspot.com/2012/06/tane-cain-tane-cain-unreleased-album.html
  9. 1 2 Skin, Mr. (2004). Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia: The A-to-Z Guide to Finding Your Favorite Actresses Naked. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. p. 360. ISBN 978-0312331443.
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