Songoftheday 11/27/20 - I'm not the kind of girl who don't know what she wants, I see it in my mind the kind of man to treat me right...

 

 

"All I Want" - 702

from the albums No Doubt (1996) and Good Burger (Original Soundtrack) (1997)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #35 (two weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 4

 

Today's song of the day comes from the female R&B vocal group 702, whose debut album had already landed two decent pop hits with "Steelo" and "Get It Together", with the latter reaching the pop top ten in the spring of 1997. After that, album track "No Doubt" got enough urban radio love to place on Billboard magazine's R&B Airplay chart at #58 in the beginning of the summer. It wasn't released as a single in America, but overseas, the song went to #35 in New Zealand and was a minor hit in the UK at #59. But it soon was overshadowed by the third commercial single from the record, "All I Want". Written by producers Charles Farrar and Troy Taylor, and anchored in a prominent sample of the Jackson Five nugget "It's Great To Be Here", which gave writing credit to Berry Gordy, Freddie Perren, Alfonso Mizell, and Deke Richards (aka "The Corporation"), the bouncy track was used in the movie All That, a film spinoff of the children's TV skit comedy show All That starring future Saturday Night Live star Kenan Thompson. With the show already enjoying peak popularity and already landing a top-40 pop hit from Immature with "Watch Me Do My Thing" earlier that year, it was a natural for radio to pick this up for the kids as well...

"All I Want" became 702's third top-40 pop hit in September of 1997. The song also climbed to #33 on Billboard's R&B chart as well. The Good Burger soundtrack, which included such diverse acts as soul band Mint Condition, rapper Warren G, and indie-rockers Presidents of the United States of America, climbed to #101 on the Billboard 200 sales chart.

Up tomorrow: Australian pop duo take a long, long round trip.