| Planet Patrol | |
| Background: | group_or_band |
| Origin: | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Genre: | Electro funk, freestyle, old school hip hop |
| Years Active: | 1982–1984; 2006–present |
| Label: | Tommy Boy/Warner Bros. Records |
Planet Patrol is an American electro group originating in the 1980s. The members were Arthur Baker, John Robie, and a quintet of vocalists led by Herbert J. Jackson (lead singer),[1] Joseph Lites, Rodney Butler, Michael Anthony Jones, and Melvin B. Franklin (not to be confused with Melvin Franklin of The Temptations). The group only produced a single album, the self-titled Planet Patrol in 1983, which peaked at #64 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart.[2]
The group's most popular song, "Play at Your Own Risk", was created from tracks that did not make the final version of Afrika Bambaataa's seminal "Planet Rock".[3]
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Dance [4] | US R&B [5] | UK [6] [7] | |||||
| 1982 | "Play at Your Own Risk" | align=center | 10 | align=center | 21 | align=center | ― |
| 1983 | "I Didn't Know I Loved You (Till I Saw You Rock and Roll)" | align=center | ― | align=center | 62 | align=center | ― |
| "Cheap Thrills" | align=center | 56 | align=center | 30 | align=center | 64 | |
| 1984 | "It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference" | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― |
| "Danger Zone" | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||