I Wanna Be Your Lover

Album: Prince (1979)
Charted: 11
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Prince Rogers Nelson
    Publisher: Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Royalty Network, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

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  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 26, 1980, Prince performed "I Wanna Be Your Lover" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'...
    At the time the song was in it's first of two weeks at #11 on Billboard's Top 100, that would also be it's peak position on the chart, and it spent sixteen weeks on the Top 100...
    And on November 25th, 1979 it reached #1 {for 2 weeks} on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart...
    Between 1978 and 2006 he had forty-seven records on the Top 100 chart, twenty made the Top 10 with five reaching #1...
    One of his forty-seven charted records was at duet, "U Got The Look", with Sheena Easton, it peaked at #2* {for 1 week} in 1987...
    Prince Rogers Nelson passed away at the young age of 57 on April 21st, 2016...
    May he R.I.P.
    * The week "U Got The Look" was at #2, the #1 record for that week was "Lost In Emotion" by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam.
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