title: Howard Huntsberry
text: # Howard Huntsberry
  
  Howard Stafford Huntsberry (born March 5, 1952) is an American R&B singer, drummer/percussionist, and actor from Pacoima, California.
  
  ## Biography
  
  In the mid-1970s, he served as drummer and male co-lead vocalist of the one-off project, The Ultimate Music Experience (T.U.M.E.), who released a self-titled album in 1975. In 1981, he became the frontman for the group Klique, a position he held through 1985, when the group released its final album.
  
  In 1988, he released a solo album, With Love, which produced two minor hits on the Billboard R&B chart. He also starred as singer Jackie Wilson in the movie La Bamba, singing a cover of "Lonely Teardrops" which was on the soundtrack album of the same. Incidentally, Klique's biggest hit had also been a cover of a Jackie Wilson song, "Stop Doggin' Me Around".
  
  Paying further tribute to Jackie Wilson, he also performed Wilson's "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" in Ghostbusters II.
  
  ## Discography
  
  ### Studio albums
  
  * With Love (MCA Records, 1988)
  
  ### Singles
  
  | Year | Single | US R&B |
  | - | - | - |
  | 1987 | "Lonely Teardrops" | — |
  | 1988 | "Sleepless Weekend" | 11 |
  | 1989 | "Married Men Get Lonely Too" | 66 |
  | 1989 | "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" | — |
  | 1989 | "Don't Take This Out on Me" | — |
  | "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. |||
  