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WHAM - EVERYTHING SHE WANTS GOT NO BETTER THAN THIS SONG BACK IN THE DAY. GEORGE MICHAEL WAS THAT DUDE!
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Straight up Rnb. My cousin Reena said all the black stations played it and every black girl was in love with GM. "Lack of home training crosses all boundaries." | |
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TRUE INDEED. CATS IN THE HOOD USED TO BUMP THIS TRACK OUT OF CARS AND BOOMBOXES WHEN I WAS A KID. | |
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It's gonna always be a classic... | |
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My cousin also said that when it "Careless Whisper" came out, you couldn't FIND a black station that wouldn't play that song. Wasn't Wham on some Motown special back in the day? "Lack of home training crosses all boundaries." | |
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GEORGE WAS ON THERE. SINGING "CARELESS WHISPER" WITH SMOKEY ROBINSON.
I THINK THAT SONG WAS MORE POP THOUGH. MADE IT ON ALL THE POP STATIONS. | |
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Culture Club got a lot of R&B airplay too. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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My cousin also said Culture Club got play on Rnb stations, as did ABC, Spandau Ballet, Kajagoogoo and Rock the Casbah, hell, she said rnb stations even rocked Another One Bites the Dust "Lack of home training crosses all boundaries." | |
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I remembered George Michael, Boy George and the like being played on "R&B radio" as a kid and LOVING it. That's why I'm still a fan of both. | |
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Yes it was. I think it was a top 10 R&B hit in Billboard. But it sounded similar to Christmas Rappin by Kurtis Blow. I've never heard Rock The Casbah or Kajagoogoo though. The local R&B station would play the instrumental of Talking In Your Sleep by The Romantics though. Video Soul on BET played David Lee Roth & Air Supply videos, but I didn't hear them on the R&B station. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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This song is the business! and i think it's a pretty well written song by George to Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener
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Wham! still kind of have a cheese factor by some people to them. But i know that a lot of black stations play Careless Whisper & I'm Your Man. To me there a straight up R&B/Pop band. But get looked down upon a lot cause of Wake Me Up & Bad Boys... not to mention the cheesy videos Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener
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But hey it was the 80's....
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2 Of the best voices together as one Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener
All music is shit music and no music is real- gunsnhalen Datdonkeydick- Asherfierce Gary Hunts Album Isn't That Good- Soulalive | |
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Great song it still holds up George was the man. This song is pure R&B to me. | |
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Duran Duran,The Human League and Madonna also got alot of airplay on R&B stations.There was alot of crossover going on in the 80s! Our local R&B station even played Huey Lewis and The News' "I Want A New Drug".
Radio stations wanted a diverse audience. For them to add in the dance music at the time made the format more appealing. Now a days, they refer to it as a Rhythmic CHR format (kinda like The Heat on SiriusXM), but it's all the same.
If you notice on the 80s episodes of Soul Train, they did the same thing to go after Bandstand and MTV. They played pop videos and a few pop tunes for the dancers to dance to.
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I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince. | |
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Damn with your caps lock. | |
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Loooooooooove this song!!! I was listening to it the other night! One of the best pop/r&b classics ever!
I love Wham's other songs too, since I was a baby. And that's cool Culture Club was on r&b radio, I'm guessing Time (Clock of the Heart)? That's totally r&b, love that song! | |
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I began to take ole Georgie serious with this one. Definitely got my attention and kept it all these years. Great tune.
"And now you tell me that you're having my baby, I'll tell you that I'm happy if you want me to..."
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One of my favorite bass lines of all time! | |
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Damn with your caps lock. I'm working on it. : ) | |
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George Michael, the best black man that never was. | |
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I wouldn't say that. Especially considering Robin Thicke and Daryl Hall (in his hey-day) are excellent singers also. **--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••-
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No comment on Alan Thicke's son ( | |
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Robin Thicke can't sing for shit. Now Daryl-whew, lawd. Todd Rundgren-Timmy, i'm gonna need some proof "Lack of home training crosses all boundaries." | |
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^ I like Robin Thicke. He has style and charisma moreso than a great singing voice. Magic Touch and Angel are the shit, no denying it.
Anyway, this is one of the great WHAM songs and definitely has that fine mix of pop and R&B. George's vocals are awesome toward the end.
But let's be real. There was never any WHAM it was ALL GEORGE! That other dude was freeloading like a muthafucca. I'M NOT SAYING YOU'RE UGLY. YOU JUST HAVE BAD LUCK WHEN IT COMES TO MIRRORS AND SUNLIGHT!
RIP Dick Clark, Whitney Houston, Don Cornelius, Heavy D, and Donna Summer.  | |
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