Songoftheday 4/24/20 - There's no need to be afraid Friday night let's all get paid, positive is the attitude negative is not the mood...
from the album The Show, The After Party, The Hotel (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #22 (four weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 9
Today's song of the day comes from the R&B group Jodeci, whose third album The Show, The After Party, The Hotel, had already scored a pair of top ten R&B/top-40 pop hits with "Freek 'n You" and "Love U 4 Life". The third offering from the record to radio would be the midtempo funk jam "Get On Up". Built on a sample of a track from Quincy Jones' 1981 album The Dude, "Velas", the whistling song is an easy going call to party that was the perfect lead-in for the weekend...
"Get On Up" became Jodeci's eighth and so far final top-40 pop hit in June of 1996. The song also landed their third top ten R&B success, and tenth overall, at #4. Internationally, the single reached #20 in the UK, and #15 in New Zealand. Not long after this run, brothers K-Ci and JoJo Hailey left to record as a duo for a while, releasing five studio albums and scoring two #1 hits, first assisting the late 2Pac later that year on "How Do U Want It", then on their own with the ballad "All My Life" in 1998. That same year a remix of "Freek'n You" with Club Asylum called "Freek Me Up" went to #92 on the British chart.
In 2014, they reunited with Devante and Dalvin DeGrate for a new Jodeci album The Past, The Present, The Future. Single "Every Moment" went to #1 on Billboard magazine's Adult R&B chart in 2015.
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Jodeci performed "Get On Up" on an episode of Brandy's sitcom Moesha...
And finally, in concert in 2016...
Up tomorrow: Half of a legendary Irish rock band decide to accept this mission.
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