Songoftheday 3/14/20 - It's our first time together and I'm feeling kinda horny, conventional methods of makin' love kinda bore me...
from the album Mr. Smith (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #9 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 11
Today's song of the day comes from rapper and actor LL Cool J, who returned triumphantly to the pop top ten at the close of 1995 with the Boyz II Men-assisted "Hey Lover". The second single released from his Mr. Smith album would be the more sexually explicit "Doin' It". Riding on a sample of "My Jamaican Guy" from Grace Jones and featuring female rapper/singer LeShaun, the record would continue his streak, because with a body like Smith's, you could sell it well...
"Doin' It" became the second top ten pop hit from Mr. Smith in April of 1996. The song also climbed to #7 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart, and peaked at #2 on their Rap Singles chart. Internationally, the single topped at #10 in the Netherlands, and made the top-40 in Sweden (#14), the UK (#15), New Zealand (#17), and Germany (#36).
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Here's LL at the MTV Music Video Awards in 1996...
And live in 2010...
Up tomorrow: Indie-rock band have a party for five in the top-40.
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