Songoftheday 3/17/21 - I've been watching you and I know you like to party baby, and you know that sounds really good to me...

 

 

"I Know Where It's At" - All Saints

from the album All Saints (1997)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #36 (two weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 3

 

Today's song of the day comes from the female pop vocal group All Saints, who came together in the mid-1990s in England, when two members of a former incarnation of the act - Melanie Blatt and Shaznay Lewis - teamed up with Canadian siblings Natalie and Nicole Appleton. Signed to London Records to fill that label's need for a "girl-group" like the Spice Girls, the All Saints released their self-titled debut album in 1997. The first single from the record, the funky track "I Know Where It's At", was written by Lewis and producer Karl "K-Gee" Gordon, with a sample of the intro to Steely Dan's minor pop hit "The Fez", which gave that group's Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, and Paul Griffin writing credit as well. It's an obvious recreation of the Spice Girls' "Wannabe" in cadence and attitude, as the quartet invite you into their (assumedly sexual) world. It was a big success in Europe in 1997, and by the following year, it had finally reached American stations and stores...

 

 "I Know Where It's At" became All Saints' first top-40 pop hit in the U.S. in March of 1998. Internationally, the single reached the top ten in the UK (#4), Canada (#7), and New Zealand (#8), and made the top-40 in Australia (#12), Ireland (#19), France (#20), Iceland (#23), Switzerland (#25), Sweden (#37), and Belgium (#37F). The All Saints album, released in America in the beginning of that year, peaked at #40 on the Billboard 200 sales chart, sticking around on the list for almost a year (49 weeks) and eventually selling over a million copies.

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Here's the group appearing on Top of the Pops in Britain in 1997...

and the following year on MTV...

and lastly at a reunion concert in 2018...

 

 Up tomorrow: Producer turns rapper and extends the celebration.