Songoftheday 11/11/19 - Yeah what's the matter with your hair? Oh yeah, what's the matter with your mind and your sign and a, oh, yeah...
from the album Another Night (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #19 (two weeks)
Weeks it the Top-40: 13
Today's song of the day comes from the German Eurodance act Real McCoy, who had landed two huge #3 pop hits in the U.S. with "Another Night" and "Run Away", the latter in the spring of 1995. The third single released in America would be one that wasn't on their German debut set Space Invaders, and one that would be their first "cover" song to be put out stateside. "Come and Get Your Love" was originally a top ten hit for the Native American pop/rock band Redbone, who took the song, written by member Lolly Vegas, to #5 on the Hot 100 chart back in 1974. Of course, most people know the song now for its appearance in the opening credits of the Marvel movie Guardians Of The Galaxy...
Real McCoy boiled the song down to its bubbly roots, using rap from Olaf Jeglitza (O-Jay) to serve as its verses...
The Real McCoy's version of "Come and Get Your Love" became their third top-40 hit in the U.S. in August of 1995. The song claimed the act their second (and most recent) #1 Dance Club Play single as well. Internationally, the single reached the top ten in New Zealand (#8) and Finland (#9), and made the top-40 in Australia (#18), the UK (#19), Iceland (#20), Ireland (#22), the Netherlands (#37), and Belgium (#39).
A track originally released in Europe from the German version of the album (Space Invaders), "Automatic Lover (Call For Love)" was put out as the fourth single in America. Originally going to #20 in Germany, the song stopped at #52 on the American pop Hot 100, but it was a decent club hit, peaking at #3. Lastly, a "double-A side" hit was released, with the downtempo "Sleeping With An Angel" just missing the pop chart, "Bubbling Under" the Hot 100 at #101; "Ooh Boy", another cover this time of a Rose Royce tune, did the same at #102 a few months later, but managed to climb the Dance Club Play chart to #19.
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Up tomorrow: South African transplant is asking an opinion.
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