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"Groove Thang" - Zhané
from the album Pronounced Jah-Nay (1994)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #17 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 14

Today's song of the day comes from the R&B/dance duo Zhané, who had landed a top ten pop/R&B/dance hit on their first try with the smooth groove of "Hey Mr. DJ" in the fall of 1993. The next offering from Renee Neufville and Jean Norris-Taylor would be another mid-tempo jam, "Groove Thang". Laid on a sample of Patrice Rushen's "Haven't You Heard", the neo-lite-disco track was written by Neufville, Sheree Brown, and K-Gee from Naughty By Nature...

"Groove Thang" became Zhané's second top-40 pop hit in March of 1994. The song also was the duo's highest-charting success on the R&B chart in Billboard magazine, spending a week at #2. The remixes on the CD single, including the house music jams from Maurice Joshua, helped the track climb to #13 on the Dance Club Play list as well. Internationally, the track hit the top ten New Zealand (#7), while making the top-40 in Australia (#17) and the UK (#34), and almost reaching that level in France (#42).

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And here's the pair singing live on Live At The Apollo in New York in 1993...

And finally, live in concert in France in 1995...

Up tomorrow: Mulleted pop master makes an eternal promise.