SATURDAY'S SINGLES : JOSE FELICIANO and JANET JACKSON

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Good morning gang and welcome back to the return of Saturday's Singles. First up under our needle is the song "Everybody Loves Me" by Puerto Rican musician, singer and composer, José Feliciano (José Monserrate Feliciano García). Today just so happens to be his 77th Birthday, so we are wishing him well and serenading him with song.  "Everybody Loves Me", hailing from his 1981 Motown album, José Feliciano, reached #44 on the Billboard Brasil charts. Our copy is a 12" maxi promotional single with the following track list :

Side 1

1.  "Everybody Loves Me" 

Written-By – D. Pomus, K. Hirsch

2.  "I Wanna Be Where You Are"

Written By - T-Boy Ross, L. Ware

Side 2

1. "I Second That Emotion"

Written by - W. Robinson, Jr., A. Cleveland

2. "Ain't That Peculiar"

Written by - W. Robinson, Jr., M. Tarplin, R. Rogers, W. Moore

Producers - Berry Gordy & Suzee Ikeda, Hal Davis 

Arranged by -  Eddie Klunis Summers

Guitar, cuatro, vocals - Jose Feliciano 

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Our second single comes to us via Janet Jackson and the year 2000. "Doesn't Really Matter" was released May 23, 2000 on the Def Jam labels and produced by Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis and Janet Jackson. The song was part of the soundtrack album for the Eddie Murphy film, the Nutty Professor II: The Klumps Soundtrack. "Doesn't Really Matter" peaked at  #1 on this day in 2000. In addition to it's top spot on the Billboard chart it as reached #9 in Denmark, Poland, Spain, and on the Dance Singles Sales chart, #5 in the UK, #3 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and  Mainstream Top 40 charts, and #2 on the Rhythmic chart. Our copy is a maxi cassette single with the following track list :

1. "Doesn't Really Matter" (Album Version) 4:55
2. "Doesn't Really Matter" (Dance All Day Extended Mix) 5:04
3. "Doesn't Really Matter" (Jonathan Peters Club Mix) 8:49
4. "Doesn't Really Matter" (Spensane Get Up Extended Mix) 6:30

Written and produced by - Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis and Janet Jackson

Vocals- Janet Jackson

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