Songoftheday 8/26/20 -You don't know the pain that I feel, you've taken my love for granted and you just wanna see it your way...

 

 

"Get It Together" - 702

from the album No Doubt (1996)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #10 (one week)

Weeks in the Top-40: 17

 

Today's song of the day comes from the Las Vegas-based R&B trio 702, who landed their first lead-artist top-40 pop hit at the close of 1996 with their debut single "Steelo". Sisters LeMisha and Irish Grinstead and Kameelah Williams followed up that success with "Get It Together", a downtempo jam about hanging on in a relationship written and produced by Donell Jones, who at the same time was getting his first taste of success as a recording artist in his own right with his cover of Steve Wonder's "Knocks Me Off My Feet". The song was embraced by R&B and then mainstream stations...

"Get It Together" became 702's third top-40 pop hit and first to reach the top ten on official Hot 100 chart in Billboard magazine in March of 1997. The song spent five weeks at #3 on their R&B chart as well. Internationally, the single was a top ten success in New Zealand at #8.

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Here's the trio performing "Steelo" and "Get It Together" live in 1996...

 

 

 and lastly, 702 recreating "Get It Together" for their Unsung episode on BET...

Up tomorrow: Bay Area rapper mines a 1986 adult-pop hit to declare immutability.