"I Wonder If I Take You Home" is a song recorded in 1984

1984 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1984.-Janury-March:*January 21 – "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood reaches number one in the UK singles chart, despite being banned by the BBC; it spends a total of forty-two weeks in the Top 40.*January 27 – Michael Jackson's...

 and released as a single in 1985

1985 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1985.-January–March:*January 1 - The newest music video channel, VH-1, debuts on American cable. It is aimed at an older demographic than its sister station, MTV...

 by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam

Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam

Lisa Lisa and her band Cult Jam were an urban contemporary band and one of first freestyle music groups to emerge from New York City in the 1980s. Cult Jam consisted of guitarist/bassist Alex "Spanador" Moseley, and drummer/keyboardist Mike Hughes...

 with Full Force

Full Force

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. Never originally released on Personal Records, the then-obscure demo was discovered in a tape "discard bin" at Personal Records by producer/writer/artist Kenny Beck (KRS One Success is the Word and Octavia

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 2 The Limit), while searching for possible material to include in his debut album on the label. He was so impressed with the song that he created a compilation album to release the song on and it was licensed by Personal Records owners Don Oriolo and Jurgen Korduletsch to CBS Records

CBS Records

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 for the Beck created Break-dancing album CBS/Suzy Q released in Europe, and released as a single in the United States

United States

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 on Columbia Records

Columbia Records

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. After the song received heavy play from club DJs who had imported the album. "I Wonder If I Take You Home" reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play

Hot Dance Club Play

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 chart for one week in June 1985; it peaked at #6 on the R&B

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

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 chart; and it reached #34 on the Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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. It also charted at #12 on the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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. The single was certified as gold in the U.S. by the RIAA. Since its release the song has become regarded as a mid eighties dance classic, and one of Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam's signature and most recognizable songs.

Its chorus has been interpolated in The Black Eyed Peas

The Black Eyed Peas

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 2005

2005 in music

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 hit song, "Don't Phunk With My Heart

Don't Phunk with My Heart

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", Fabolous

Fabolous

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's song with Lil' Mo

Lil' Mo

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 entitled "Take You Home" & in the Angie Martinez

Angie Martinez

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 single "Take You Home" featuring Kelis. The song has also been sampled

Sampling (music)

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 by Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue

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 (in her song "Secret (Take You Home)

Secret (Take You Home)

"Secret " is a pop song written by a collection of songwriters for Kylie Minogue's ninth studio album Body Language . The song had a limited release in the beginning of 2004 to Taiwan. The song features an interpolation of the chorus to the 1985 song "I Wonder If I Take You Home" by Lisa Lisa and...

"), Pitbull

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 (in his song "I Wonder", featuring Oobie), R&B singer Paula Campbell

Paula Campbell

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 in her single "Take You Home," which garnered much airplay on urban radio-stations around the Baltimore-DC area, and in the Junior Mafia featuring Aaliyah

Aaliyah

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 single, "I Need You Tonight". In 2010, singer Adrienne Bailon

Adrienne Bailon

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 and rapper Ghostface Killah

Ghostface Killah

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covered the song as, "Take You Home". which is the lead single off her yet-untitled debut album .