"Oh Sheila" is a 1985 single by Ready for the World

Ready for the World

Ready for the World is an American R&B band from Flint, Michigan who scored several moderate pop, soul, and dance hits in the mid to late 1980s...

. The song went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

, the Hot Black Singles

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...

 and the Hot Dance Club Play

Hot Dance Club Play

The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...

 charts

Record chart

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. It was the first of two chart toppers for the band on the Billboard R&B chart, preceding their 1986 number-one R&B hit, "Love You Down

Love You Down

"Love You Down" is the title of an R&B song written by Melvin Riley Jr. Riley's former band, Ready for the World, originally recorded the song in 1986 and released it as the lead single from their second album, Long Time Coming produced by Gary Spaniola...

". The song's introduction has a brief spoken word

Spoken word

Spoken word is a form of poetry that often uses alliterated prose or verse and occasionally uses metered verse to express social commentary. Traditionally it is in the first person, is from the poet’s point of view and is themed in current events....

 section, done in a pseudo-Australian accent, possibly a reference to the fact that Sheila

Sheila

Sheila is a common given name for a female, derived from the Gaelic name Síle/Sìle, which is believed to be a Gaelic form of Julia or Cecilia. Like "Cecil" or "Cecilia", the name means "blind", from the Latin word caecus...

 is a slang

Slang

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 term in that country for a woman

Woman

A woman , pl: women is a female human. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent...

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Track listing

7" vinyl version

1. "Oh Sheila" (3:36)
2. "I'm the One Who Loves You" (3:20)

12" vinyl version

1. "Oh Sheila" (6:48)
2. "Oh Sheila (Dubstramental)" (4:00)
3. "Oh Sheila (A capella)" (3:54)

Chart performance

Chart (1985)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	11
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	1
U.S. Billboard Hot Black Singles	1
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play	1

Angel City version: Love Me Right (Oh Sheila)

The song was covered in 2003 by Eurodance

Eurodance

Eurodance is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s or early 1990s primarily in Europe. It combines many elements from House, Techno, Hi-NRG and especially Italo-Disco...

 band Angel City. The single, renamed "Love Me Right" with the original title as a subtitle, featured vocals by Lara McAllen

Lara McAllen

Lara Jennifer McAllen is a chart vocalist, singer/songwriter, and vocal producer.-Biography:Lara McAllen is the singer for the pop/dance music project Angel City. McAllen began dancing at age 5, and briefly pursued a modelling career before becoming a backing dancer for the pop singer Shakira at...

. The song was the lead single for the band's 2005 album, Love Me Right

Love Me Right

Love Me Right was the first album from the electronic music group Angel City, also known as Zentveld & Oomen.Featuring the vocals of Lara McAllen, the album was released in 2005...

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Chart Performance

The song reached No. 11 in the U.K charts and No. 1 in the U.K dance charts. The song also reached No. 1 on the U.S dance charts, and this track became their first to enter the US billboard chart.