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"I Can't Wait" is a song by American group Nu Shooz, originally recorded in late 1984 and featured on the band's second album Tha's Right the following year. The song was remixed by Dutch DJ and producer Peter Slaghuis: this remixed version is the one that appears on the 1986 album Poolside.

"I Can't Wait"
Front cover of 1986 US reissue (Atlantic)
Single by Nu Shooz
from the album Poolside
(original version on Tha's Right[1])
ReleasedFebruary 1986
Recorded1984
GenreFreestyle[2]
Length5:25 (album version)
3:40 (single version)
LabelAtlantic
Songwriter(s)John Smith
Producer(s)John Smith, Rick Waritz
Nu Shooz singles chronology
"I Can't Wait"
(1986)		 "Point of No Return"
(1986)
Music video
"I Can't Wait" on YouTube
Back cover
Back cover of 1986 US reissue (Atlantic)

In the United States, the remixed version of the song reached No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart in late March 1986, remaining atop the chart for two weeks. Soon afterwards, the song appeared on the Hot 100 chart, where it climbed to No. 3 in mid-June of that year, and remained in the top 40 for 15 weeks and it reached #2 on the R&B/Soul singles chart. In the United Kingdom, the song reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart. The single returned to the U.S. charts in 2015, where it peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Digital Songs chart.[3]

The song's American chart run coincided with that of a Stevie Nicks song also titled "I Can't Wait".


Background


Instrumentalist John Smith would try to write songs in batches of ten, and have two a week ready for rehearsals back in the early 1980s in Portland, Oregon. He bought a new Teac-3440 4-track recorder in 1983, and "I Can't Wait" was one of the first songs he recorded on it. He scribbled out the lyrics in fifteen minutes as the band was loading up gear to go to rehearse it, and his wife, singer Valerie Day, approved.[4]


Critical reception


John Leland's writeup in a Spin magazine column wrote about the single, saying: "You can listen to this record as many times as you want and still not have any strong impressions that human beings actually made it. In other words, it's the perfect disco record."[5]


Music video


The music video was directed by Jim Blashfield. It contains animations and has a hint of the very surreal. The plot has Valerie Day singing the song sitting at a desk, repairing a coffeepot, while tools and other oddities pass into the frame and out again. Her dog sits nearby, wearing sunglasses.


Chart performance



Cover versions and samples



See also



References


  1. Nu Shooz- Tha's Right @ the band's website Archived 2011-11-08 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 12-3-2011.
  2. "Nu Shooz 'Can't Wait' for Super Freestyle Explosion in Ontario". dailybulletin.com. June 20, 2014. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
  3. Dance/Electronic Digital Songs (October 24, 2015) from Billboard (October 14, 2015)
  4. "Interview with Valerie Day and John Smith of Nu Shooz". Kickin' it Old School. June 22, 2011. Retrieved August 16, 2021.
  5. John Leland (May 1986). Singles - Nu Shooz "I Can't Wait". Spin.
  6. "The Hot 100 (week ending June 14, 1986)". Billboard. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
  7. "Top Hip-Hop Songs / R&B Songs Chart - Billboard". Billboard. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
  8. "Dance Songs: Top Dance Music Chart - Billboard". Billboard. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
  9. Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 177.
  10. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 220. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and June 12, 1988.
  11. Hung, Steffen. "Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait". Lescharts.com. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  12. "German Singles Chart at charts-surfer.de". Archived from the original on January 8, 2009.
  13. "The Irish Charts - All there is to know". irishcharts.ie. Archived from the original on June 2, 2009. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
  14. "Italian Hit Parade". Italia.it. Retrieved October 7, 2018.[permanent dead link]
  15. "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  16. "Kent Music Report No 650 – 29 December 1986 > National Top 100 Singles for 1986". Kent Music Report, via Imgur.com. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  17. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 21, 2012. Retrieved October 1, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  18. "The Official New Zealand Music Chart". THE OFFICIAL NZ MUSIC CHART. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  19. "Top 100 Singles". Music Week. London, England: Spotlight Publications. January 24, 1987. p. 24.
  20. Nielsen Business Media, Inc (December 27, 1986). "1986 The Year in Music & Video: Top Pop Singles". Billboard. Vol. 98, no. 52. p. Y-21.
  21. "Offizielle deutsche Charts". Offizielle deutsche Charts. Retrieved March 6, 2022.

На других языках

[de] I Can’t Wait

I Can’t Wait ist ein Lied von den Nu Shooz aus dem Jahr 1986, das von John Smith geschrieben wurde und auf dem Album Poolside erschien.
- [en] I Can't Wait (Nu Shooz song)


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