BETHLEHEM, Pa. — A concert that offers four music acts that topped the pop and hip-hop charts in the 1990s is coming to Wind Creek Event Center, it has been announced.
The I Love the 90s Tour, which features Vanilla Ice, Rob Base, Tone Lōc and C+C Music Factory featuring Freedom Williams, will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 15.
Tickets, at $59.50 for general admission standing and $99.50 for seats on the arena wings, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 1 at the Wind Creek Event Center website and at its box office at 77 Wind Creek Blvd., Bethlehem.Wind Creek Event Center website
Tickets, at $59.50 for general admission standing and $99.50 for seats on the arena wings, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 1, at the Wind Creek Event Center website and at its box office at 77 Wind Creek Blvd., Bethlehem.
The lineup captures a time when hip-hop music, with a heavy dose of pop, was capturing the general music charts.
Vanilla Ice in 1990 had a platinum hit with his song "Ice Ice Baby," which helped his debut album, "To The Extreme," top the charts and sell seven times platinum.
Vanilla Ice also had a gold hit with a cover of Wild Cherry's "Play That Funky Music," which peaked at No. 4, and a live album, 1991's "Extremely Live," hit No. 30 and sold gold, but none of his subsequent five albums charted.
Other acts
C+C Music Factory had three hits that charted in the Top 5 in 1990 and 1991, starting with its biggest hit, "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)."
That song hit No. 1 with double-platinum sales, and helped its 1990 debut album "Gonna Make You Sweat" sell five times platinum.
That disc also included the songs "Here We Go (Let's Rock & Roll)," which peaked at No. 3 with gold sales, and "Things That Make You Go Hmmm...," which peaked at No. 4 and also sold gold.
The group had four more songs that topped the Dance chart, but released only two more albums through 1995, neither of which hit the Top 100.
Tone Loc is best known for his 1998 double-platinum hit "Wild Thing" and 1989's platinum "Funky Cold Medina," both from his chart-topping, double-platinum debut album "Lōc-ed After Dark."
He released just one more album, 1991's "Cool Hand Lōc," which failed to chart.
Base is best known for his 1988 double-platinum hit "It Takes Two," and the follow-up Dance chart hit "Get on the Dance Floor," both from his platinum 1988 debut album "It Takes Two."
His 1989 sophomore disc, "The Incredible Base," had gold sales, with the Top 5 rap hits "Joy and Pain" and "Turn It Out (Go Base)," but his third and final disc, 1994's "Break of Dawn," didn't chart.
The I Love the 90s Tour also stopped at Wind Creek Event Center, then called Sands Bethlehem Event Center, in 2017, drawing a near-sellout with a lineup that included Vanilla Ice, Base, All 4 One, Salt-N-Pepa and Coolio.
