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Subject: Is U Can't Touch This a 1989 or 1990 song?
Written By: Donnie Darko on 05/22/06 at 3:55 pm
I'm like 100% sure it was recorded in 1989, but when was it first released?
Subject: Re: Is U Can't Touch This a 1989 or 1990 song?
Written By: bbigd04 on 05/22/06 at 3:56 pm
I looked on itunes and it says the album was released on February 24, 1990.
Subject: Re: Is U Can't Touch This a 1989 or 1990 song?
Written By: Paul on 05/22/06 at 4:00 pm
Of course, the basis for the song was Rick James' 'Super Freak'...a 1981 record...
Subject: Re: Is U Can't Touch This a 1989 or 1990 song?
Written By: whistledog on 05/22/06 at 4:38 pm
Nothing can top the Rick James original. Hammer didn't even come close
Subject: Re: Is U Can't Touch This a 1989 or 1990 song?
Written By: Paul on 05/22/06 at 4:41 pm
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Subject: Re: Is U Can't Touch This a 1989 or 1990 song?
Written By: whistledog on 05/22/06 at 4:46 pm
Pity the record-buying public didn't agree with you, Jason...!
If only they would have, the 90's would have been a better time ;D
Hammer killed a Rick James song, destroyed a Prince song and ruined a Chi-Lites classic. All this from just one album :\'(
Subject: Re: Is U Can't Touch This a 1989 or 1990 song?
Written By: Paul on 05/22/06 at 4:49 pm
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Subject: Re: Is U Can't Touch This a 1989 or 1990 song?
Written By: whistledog on 05/22/06 at 4:51 pm
Not to mention that extremely suspect cartoon series...!!
Oh god, I'd forgotten about his cartoon series. I remember he also used to do TV commercials for KFC. I wonder if KFC had a decline in sales when those ads ran? ;D
Subject: Re: Is U Can't Touch This a 1989 or 1990 song?
Written By: Paul on 05/22/06 at 4:59 pm
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Subject: Re: Is U Can't Touch This a 1989 or 1990 song?
Written By: whistledog on 05/22/06 at 5:03 pm
He wasn't wearing that leopardskin leotard-type thing, was he...?!!
We had the good sense not to air those ads...they would have given the kids nightmares!
He wore his usual parachute pants as he danced down a street with a bunch of kids as they head to KFC. It's about as bad as advertising can get ;D
Subject: Re: Is U Can't Touch This a 1989 or 1990 song?
Written By: CharmedPrue2001 on 05/22/06 at 8:18 pm
this will always be remembered as a 1990 song and not 1989 i also know people get confused with Paula Abdul her album Forever Your Girl came out in 1988 and 3 singles chatted that year Knocked out The Way That You Loved Me and Straight Up which went to number 1 in DEC 1988 and was number 1 in Jan 1989
Subject: Re: Is U Can't Touch This a 1989 or 1990 song?
Written By: woops on 05/22/06 at 8:35 pm
It's the very few songs from MC Hammer I can tolerate
Other being "Turn This Mutha Out".
"2 Legit 2 Quit" is far worse and the cartoon is among the worst of all time
Subject: Re: Is U Can't Touch This a 1989 or 1990 song?
Written By: robby76 on 05/23/06 at 10:00 pm
The only Hammer song I liked was "Pray".
Subject: Re: Is U Can't Touch This a 1989 or 1990 song?
Written By: D.J. on 06/08/06 at 4:51 pm
The album came out in February 1990 but I'm sure it appeared once or twice on the radio in December 1989.
Subject: Re: Is U Can't Touch This a 1989 or 1990 song?
Written By: JohnK19 on 06/08/06 at 5:01 pm
The Song first started playing on the Radio in Mid-January 1990 and peaked at #8 on the Charts in April 1990
It's a '90s Song. And pretty much THE first '90s Song, considering it's so popular
Subject: Re: Is U Can't Touch This a 1989 or 1990 song?
Written By: JohnK19 on 06/09/06 at 1:24 am
Actually, I had my facts wrong. I just now looked up the Billboard Info of the song and this is what I found out
The Song made it's Debut on the Billboard "Hot 100" Chart on April 22nd, 1990. It peaked at #8 on June 16th, 1990
Subject: Re: Is U Can't Touch This a 1989 or 1990 song?
Written By: Classie83 on 06/09/06 at 11:44 pm
Nothing can top the Rick James original. Hammer didn't even come close
...But he wasn't trying to....Hammer just used a sample. He wasn't trying to remake superfreak.