"Love's Comin' At Ya" is a dance-pop

Dance-pop

Dance-pop is dance-oriented pop music that originated in the early 1980s. Developing from post-disco, it is generally up-tempo music intended for clubs with the intention of being danceable or merely dancey...

, funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 and post-disco

Post-disco

Post-disco refers to a historically significant period in popular music history beginning with the commercial death of disco music in the late 1970s and ending with the mainstream appearance of house music in late 1980s.The stripped-down musical trends followed from the DJ- and producer-driven,...

 song recorded and released by singer Melba Moore

Melba Moore

Beatrice Melba Smith , known by her stage name, Melba Moore is an American disco, R&B singer and actress. She is the daughter of saxophonist Teddy Hill and R&B singer Bonnie Davis.-Early life:...

, in 1982. Originally released on EMI America

EMI America Records

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 initially, it was also the first single released off her Capitol Records debut album, The Other Side of the Rainbow

The Other Side of the Rainbow (album)

The Other Side of the Rainbow is the twelfth album by singer Melba Moore, released in 1982. This was released on Capitol Records proper. It also featured her hit "Love's Comin' At Ya".-Track listing:#"Love's Comin' At Ya"...

. The single was a follow-up to her Kashif

Kashif

Kashif is an Arabic word, commonly used as a male given name in the Muslim world. Its meaning is close to the English words 'revealer', 'discoverer', 'uncoverer' or 'pioneer'....

-produced hit, "Take My Love", which had peaked at number fifteen on the R&B chart in late 1981. "Love's Comin' At Ya" became an even bigger hit, produced by Kashif and Paul Lawrence Jones II, who also wrote the song, reaching number-five on the R&B chart, also reaching number-two on the Hot Dance Singles chart, and also became a hit overseas reaching number-fifteen in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, bringing the singer her best charted single in the country since "This Is It" seven years earlier. The song didn't chart on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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Credits

• Lead vocals by Melba Moore
• Background vocals by Melba Moore, Alyson Williams
  Alyson Williams
  -Career:The daughter of bandleader / trumpeter Bobby Booker, she began her career by singing background vocals for various artists including, Curtis Hairston, Melba Moore , B. B. & Q. Band, Cashflow, Unlimited Touch, Bobby Brown and Barbara Mitchell before joining the group High Fashion, which also...
  
  , B.J. Nelson, Fonzi Thornton, Lillo Thomas, Freddie Jackson
  Freddie Jackson
  Frederick Anthony "Freddie" Jackson is an American soul singer. He was an important figure in R&B during the 1980s and early 1990s...
  
  and Phillip Ballou
• Drums by Leslie Ming
• Guitar by Ira Siegel
• Other instrumentation by Paul Lawrence Jones II and Kashif