Whatcha Gonna Do?

Album: A Place in the Sun (1977)
Charted: 6
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: CORY CHARLES LERIOS, DAVID MICHAEL JENKINS
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 6

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn July 1, 1978, Pablo Cruise performed "Worlds Away" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV network Saturday-afternoon program 'American Bandstand'...
    The song was track one of side one on the group's fourth studio album, 'Worlds Away', the album peaked at #6* on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart...
    Three tracks from the album made Billboard's Top 100 Singles chart; "Love Will Find a Way" {#6*}, "Don't Want to Live Without It" {#21}, and "I Go to Rio" {#46}...
    On the same 'Bandstand' show they also performed "Love Will Find A Way", at the time it was at #30 on the Top 100, eight weeks it would peak at #6* {for 1 week}, and it spent 18 weeks on the Top 100...
    Their only other Top 10 record, "Whatcha Gonna Do?", also peaked at #6* and it stayed on the Top 100 for a half-year {26 weeks}...
    * Seems 6 is Pablo Cruise's lucky number!
  • Tony from San DiegoPiles of coke indeed, strippers that I hooked up with...miss those days!
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn July 2nd 1977, Pablo Cruise performed "Whatcha Gonna Do?" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    Three months earlier on April 10th, 1977 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #93; and on August 14th, 1977 it peaked at #6 (for 2 weeks) and spent a half-year on the Top 100 (26 weeks)...
    It reached #46 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart...
    Between 1977 and 1981 the quartet had nine Top 100 records; with two making the Top 10, their other Top 10 record was "Love Will Find A Way' at #6 in 1978...
    (See next post below).
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn July 1st 1978, Pablo Cruise performed "Love Will Find A Way" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    Thirty-three days earlier on May 28th, 1978 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #70; and on August 20th, 1978 it peaked at #6 (for 1 week) and spent 18 weeks on the Top 100...
    And on the day it reached #6, exactly one year earlier on August 20th, 1977 "Whatcha Gonna Do!" was also at #6 on the Top 100.
  • Bryan from Atlanta, GaToo bad, John. You should have hung around with a better crowd. This is a great "wakeup" song for guys who become complacent with their relationships, not realizing what they have.
  • John from Beltsville, MdThis song, to me, conjures up images of bad haircuts, loud shirts, huge moustaches and piles of coke.
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