I Gotcha

Album: I Gotcha (1972)
Charted: 2
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Joe Tex
    Publisher: Downtown Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 2

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 25th 1972, Joe Tex performed "I Gotcha" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    At the time the song was at #10 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and little over a month later on April 30th, 1972 it would peak at #2 {See the next post below}...
    On the same 'Bandstand' show he also performed his next release, "You Said a Bad Word", it would reached #41 on the Top 100, and stay on the chart for 8 weeks.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 16th 1972, "I Gotcha" by Joe Tex entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on April 30th, 1972 it peaked at #2 (for 2 weeks) and spent 21 weeks on the Top 100 (and 9 of those 21 weeks it was on the Top 10)...
    And on March 12th, 1972 it reached #1 (for 1 week) on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
    The two weeks it was at #2, it was "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack that kept it out of the top spot (plus it had stayed at #3 for three weeks before moving up to #2)...
    Between 1965 and 1978 he had thirty-three on the R&B Singles chart; with twelve making the Top 10 and three reaching #1 (the other two were "I Want To (Do Everything for You)" in 1965 and "A Sweet Woman Like You" again in 1965)...
    R.I.P. Mr. Tex, born Joseph Arrington, Jr., (1933 - 1982).
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