Question: Slow jam is music with rhythm and blues and soul influences that Midnight Star featured in its string of hits in what decade?
Context: "Operator" is a 1984 # 1 R&B/dance single by Midnight Star, produced by then-current bandmember Reggie Calloway.  At the dawning of 1984, despite having achieved much success on the R&B chart and an extremely successful album, "No Parking on the Dance Floor" the previous year, Midnight Star had yet to make a big impression on the pop charts.  However, "Operator" finally scored the band a significant pop hit.  The single cracked the pop Top 20, peaking at number 18, and remains Midnight Star's only top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.  It was also their biggest hit on the R&B chart, hitting number one for five weeks in late 1984 and into 1985. Solomon Burke (born James Solomon McDonald, March 21, 1940 – October 10, 2010) was an American preacher and singer, who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues as one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s and a "key transitional figure in the development of soul music from rhythm and blues.  He had a string of hits including "Cry to Me", "If You Need Me", "Got to Get You Off My Mind", "Down in the Valley" and "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love".  Burke was referred to as "King Solomon", the "King of Rock 'n' Soul", "Bishop of Soul" and the "Muhammad Ali of soul".  Due to his minimal chart success in comparison to other soul music greats such as James Brown, Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding, Burke has been described as the genre's "most unfairly overlooked singer" of its golden age.  Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler referred to Burke as "the greatest male soul singer of all time". Midnight Star is a science fiction video game developed by Industrial Toys, the company's debut product and the first in the "Midnight Star" series.  It was released on February 5, 2015 for iOS devices, with other platforms to be available later.  Set 120 years into the future, the game takes players aboard the MSRV-Joplin, a research vessel newly outfitted with military weaponry to explore a mysterious signal coming from within the Solar System.  When inevitable disaster strikes, the Joplin crew is transported across the universe to take part in a war that is not their own. To the Max is a 1982 album released by Vallejo, California R&B/soul band Con Funk Shun.  This album included several of the band's early 1980s hits, such as "Ain't Nobody Baby" and "Ms. Got-the-Body."  However, perhaps one of the most enduring tracks featured on the album is a tune that was never actually released as a single; the slow jam, "Love's Train" is widely considered a classic in the R&B world as well as one of the band's best-known songs. No Parking on the Dance Floor is a 1983 album by American vocal band Midnight Star.  This is the fourth and most successful album by the band.  Released on June 6, 1983, the album contains the hit singles "Freak-A-Zoid," "Wet My Whistle," "Electricity," and "No Parking (On the Dance Floor)," as well as the seminal quiet storm anthem, "Slow Jam." Midnight Star is an American group that had a string of hits in the 1980s. A slow jam is an umbrella term for music with rhythm and blues and soul influences.  Slow jams are commonly R&B ballads or downtempo songs.  The term is most commonly reserved for soft-sounding songs with heavily emotional or romantic lyrical content.  This definition has led to intense debate over whether particular songs should be classified as a "slow jam", e.g. Ginuwine's 1996 hit single "Pony".  The common use and possible origin of this term traces back to 1983 when Solar Records group Midnight Star recorded the song "Slow Jam" on their album "No Parking on the Dance Floor". Slow jam is an umbrella term for music with rhythm and blues and soul influences. Midnight Star: Renegade is a science fiction mobile shooting game developed by Industrial Toys, the second game in the "Midnight Star" series.  It was soft released in March 2016 for iOS devices, with an Android version to be available later.  Set 120 years after the events of "Midnight Star", the game takes players to new areas.  It was released on iOS on 11 August 2016. Antoine "T.C.D." Lundy (February 3, 1963 – January 21, 1998) was a member and singer of the contemporary R&B group Force MDs, whose other members included his brother Stevie D, their uncle Jesse Lee Daniels, and friends Trisco Pearson and Charles "Mercury" Nelson.  The group had a string of R&B hits through the 1980s, scoring a top-ten pop hit was the slow jam "Tender Love," which was featured in the 1985 film "Krush Groove".  The group also appeared in the hip hop-inspired motion picture "Rappin'" (1985).  1987 produced the group's first R&B #1, "Love is a House".
Answer: 1980s