I was reading about him at CDNow and found this bit of info..

"But breakthrough success was just around the corner for Ocean, as he scored a massive hit single in 1984 with "Caribbean Queen," a track that shot to the top of the charts worldwide. Depending on the region, the song's title and lyrics were changed slightly, resulting in the tune being known as "African Queen" and "European Queen" in other parts of the world, while the album it was taken from, Suddenly, was eventually certified double platinum (a few other singles, a cover of Prince's "Loverboy" and the ballad "Suddenly," were also successful)."

"Prince's 'Loverboy'"?
WTF?!
Prince didn't write this did he?

Anybody?

DJEmale said:

It's wrong.

The songwriters were: Keith Diamond, Billy Ocean and Robert John 'Mutt' Lange - also according to CD Now - see credits at:

http://cdnow.com/switch/f...241+1271+2
[This message was edited Tue Aug 27 10:16:56 PDT 2002 by langebleu]

Somebody is smoking da weed over there.

love zone is my fav billy track.

misschestylarue said:

"Nights You Feel Like Getting Down"(1981) is my favorite Ocean track.

Brother915 said:

Co-sign.

As far as the misinformation on CDNow's site; when in doubt the best thing to do (if you need to research something on the net) is find more than one site with the credits to the album or song. I used to have a job a long time ago where I had to look up information on the AllMusic.com site, and found plenty of inaccurate information. I even found one album by Louis Jordan with Prince credited as writing the song. And for those of you who know who Jordan was you know how supremely silly that is.

Billy was so pathetic for altering song lyrics to please the women by geographical location.

Essence said:

I think the Record Company had a Hand in that Choice as well?? the Record Company Texturized His Music alot.He is like a whole different Artist Compared to How He was on Hsi earlier stuff.