CooleyHighHarmony is the debut studio album by Boyz II Men released in 1991. It went on to sell 9.4 million copies in the United States. It spent a total of 133 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart. It contains the #1 hit "End of the Road,” the top 5 hits "Motownphilly," "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday," and "In the Still of the Nite (I'll Remember),” and the top 20 hit "Uhh Ahh." The album earned the group 2 Grammy awards. Musical genres on the album include R&B and new jack swing. Their sound, dubbed "hip-hop doo-wop" was a shrewd and flexible mix of contemporary and throwback elements. Fully exploiting the members' stunning vocal chops on ballads as a close harmony group, while hardly washed out when matched with densely layered upbeat material. Due to their impressive vocal harmonies, they have been described as "The Temptations of the 1990's." The album gets it's name in tribute to the real life high school in Chicago, Cooley High School.

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