The Party

In the late 1980s The Party took shape as a pop ensemble assembled from performers on the revived Mickey Mouse Club. A writers’ strike halted filming of a movie in which Chase Hampton and Tiffini Hale had been cast, prompting their addition to the show as the newest Mouseketeers. While appearing on the program, Hampton organized a musical act with fellow cast members that included Albert Fields. Disney’s recently launched Hollywood Records label then signed the five-piece lineup—Hampton, Hale, Fields, Damon Pampolina, and Dee Dee Mango—which adopted the name The Party.

Across the following years the group issued four albums: the self-titled The Party in 1990, In the Meantime, in Between Time in 1991, Free in 1992, and The Party’s Over...Thanks for Coming in 1994. The recordings combined routine, assembly-line material with dance-oriented reworkings of pop and rock tracks such as “Walkin’ in the Rain,” “My Generation,” and “I Know What Boys Like.” The strategy produced only modest chart activity and no platinum certifications. Four singles entered the charts, yet just one—a cover of Dokken’s “In My Dreams”—reached the Top 40, stopping at number 34. A greatest-hits compilation appeared in 1997, although the act was soon overshadowed by the subsequent pop successes of other Mouseketeers, notably Britney Spears.