In 1984, their song "Beat Street Strut", released by the same label, appeared in the 1984 musical-drama movie Beat Street and its gold-certified soundtrack.[3] The song peaked at #46 on Billboard Dance chart in July 1984.[4]
Their second album It Takes Two was released in 1985. The album featured an answer record to the Mtume song "Juicy Fruit" called "Sugar Free".[5] It peaked at #13 on the Billboard R&B chart and #45 on the UK Singles Chart.[6] Another moderately successful single from the album include "Nobody but You", reaching number 59 on the R&B chart.[7]
Their last album, Spread the Love, released in 1987, was commercially unsuccessful, resulting in Juicy's disbanding. Katreese Barnes later became a producer, songwriter and the musical director for Saturday Night Live.[1] She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics twice for composing music for SNL, first in 2007 as co-writer of The Lonely Island's "Dick in a Box" and again in 2011 for writing a monologue for Justin Timberlake.[8][9] Katreese Barnes died of breast cancer on August 3, 2019 at the age of 56.
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