I Gotcha (Joe Tex song)

I Gotcha (Joe Tex song)

Infobox Single
Name = I Gotcha


Artist = Joe Tex
from Album = I Gotcha
B-side = "A Mother's Prayer"
Released = January 1972
Format = 7" 45 RPM
Genre = R&B
Length= 2:18
Label = Dial Records
Writer = Joe Tex
Producer = Buddy Killen

I Gotcha is a song by Joe Tex. Tex originally intended for the song to be recorded by King Floyd, but Floyd never recorded a version of it. Instead, Tex went ahead and recorded it himself in the late 1960's, but ended up not releasing it. He decided to re-record the song in late 1971 and released it as the B-side of "A Mother's Prayer," the first single off his 1972 album that was also titled "I Gotcha". Radio DJs decided to flip the single over and started playing "I Gotcha." This would result in Tex having his first major hit in five years as "I Gotcha" eventually peaked at number one on the R&B chart and number two on the Pop chart and would sell around three million copies. Tex would later re-record "I Gotcha" again, this time in more of a ballad-style, for inclusion on his 1978 album "Rub Down". Like other Tex songs, "I Gotcha" has been sampled in various hip-hop and R&B songs over the years.

References

1. "I Gotcha" song review on Allmusic website


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