featuring Total (the chorus' lyrics are changed to "Reach for the stars") The song "Juicy Fruit" is a essential hip hop sample. Although Mtume loved the song, Agee wasn't happy with it, as she felt her vocals were "dry". They completed the song in one night and Agee flew back to London after the sessions. As she was recording the first verse, he was busy composing the second verse. Agee then flew back to the studio, although Mtume didn't have the lyrics written down until Agee started recording. He then called Agee, who was in London in between breaks of the Roxy Music tour. At 2 A.M., they completed the track in under two hours. He then called the other band members back into the studio to complete the sessions.
Mtume then used the Linn LM-1 and was pleased at what he heard. He had finished the Juicy Fruit album while the other band members went home. The single itself would become the inspiration for another act that would take the name from the song, Juicy, whose single "Sugar Free" was considered an answer to "Juicy Fruit" and itself the basis for being used as sampled backgrounds on numerous songs.Īccording to group founder James Mtume, he worked on the song while lead singer Tawatha Agee was out on tour with English band Roxy Music. The song's video had different lyrics, where they replaced "You can lick me everywhere" with "Candy kisses everywhere". Though it never reached the Top 40, the single was certified as selling one million copies on July 25, 1983. It was ranked at number 15 among the "Tracks of the Year" for 1983 by NME. Its success on the Billboard Pop Singles chart, however, was more modest, reaching number 45. The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart on June 4, 1983, and remained there for eight weeks.
The mid-tempo song is arguably Mtume's most well-known, proving enormously successful on R&B radio stations when first released. " Juicy Fruit" is a song written by James Mtume and released as the lead-off single from Mtume's third album, also titled Juicy Fruit.
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