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For the album, see Somebody's Watching Me (album).
"Somebody's Watching Me"
Side-A label of US 12-inch vinyl single
Single by Rockwell
from the album Somebody's Watching Me
B-side
"Somebody's Watching Me (Instrumental)"
Released
1984
Format
7" single
cassette single
Genre
Synth-funk[1]
Length
4:59 (Album version)
4:00 (Single version)
3:33 (Radio version)
Label
Motown M 1702
Songwriter(s)
Kennedy "Rockwell" Gordy
Producer(s)
Curtis Anthony Nolen
Rockwell
Rockwell singles chronology
"Somebody's Watching Me"
(1984) "Obscene Phone Caller"
(1984)
"Somebody's Watching Me"
(1984) "Obscene Phone Caller"
(1984)
Music video
"Somebody's Watching Me" on YouTube
"Somebody's Watching Me" is a song recorded by American singer Rockwell, released by the Motown label on January 14, 1984, as the lead single from his debut studio album of the same name. Rockwell's debut single release, the song features guest vocals by brothers Michael Jackson (in the chorus) and Jermaine Jackson (additional backing vocals).[2]
"Somebody's Watching Me" became a major commercial success internationally, topping the charts in Belgium, France and Spain, and reaching the Top 5 in Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States (peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100). The song reached No. 6 in the United Kingdom, Rockwell's only Top 40 hit there.[3]
Contents
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1 Background and composition
2 Music video
2.1 Plot
3 Charts and certifications
3.1 Weekly charts
3.2 Year-end charts
3.3 Sales and certifications
4 DJ BoBo version: "Somebody Dance with Me"
5 Beatfreakz version
5.1 Track listing
5.2 Chart performance
6 Other cover versions
7 Sampling
8 Appearances in other media
9 See also
10 References
11 External links
Background and composition[edit]
Rockwell is a son of Motown CEO Berry Gordy. At the time of the recording, Rockwell was estranged from his father and living with Ray Singleton, his father's ex-wife and the mother of his older half-brother, Kerry Gordy. Singleton served as executive producer on the project and would occasionally play some demo tracks to Berry. The elder Gordy was less than enthusiastic about Rockwell's music until he heard the single with a familiar voice featuring prominently on background vocals.[2][4]
"Somebody's Watching Me" was written in the key of C-sharp minor in 4
4 time with a tempo of 124 beats per minute. The vocals span from C4 to C5.[5]
Produced by Curtis Anthony Nolen, the song featured backing vocals by Michael and Jermaine Jackson, with Alan Murray on percussion.[2][6]
Music video[edit]
The music video to "Somebody's Watching Me" (which uses the radio edit instead of the album version) underscores the song's paranoid tone with a haunted house-inspired theme, including imagery of floating heads, ravens, graveyards, and shower scenes referencing Psycho.
Plot[edit]
The video opens with Rockwell coming home to discover that a newspaper in Chinese has been delivered to his doorstep. As he takes a quick shower, he begins to have strange visions (in a manner recalling The Dead Zone) of himself being pursued around his house by assorted ghoulish appartions, of the looming figure of a cadaverous-looking man, and of finding a tombstone engraved with his own name. His shower is interrupted when he hears something outside and goes out on his balcony to investigate. He is shocked to see the man from his visions standing at his gate, but as he struggles to get a better look in spite of the sun in his face he is greatly relieved to see that he is merely a mailman, coming to deliver the correct newspaper. As the mailman walks up the path towards the front porch, however, a brief close-up of his arm reveals that he is, in fact, a zombie. Rockwell emerges onto the porch to receive the paper, which the mailman genially hands over. As the mailman brings his other arm around to strike, Rockwell has just enough time to notice that he is not human.
Due in part to the popularity of the music video, the song is sometimes used for Halloween celebrations, with cover versions found in various collections of Halloween music.
Charts and certifications[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (1984)
Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[7] 12
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[8] 14
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[9] 1
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[10] 2
France (IFOP)[11] 1
Germany (Official German Charts)[12] 2
Ireland (IRMA)[13] 6
Italy (FIMI)[14] 14
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[15] 2
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[16] 4
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[17] 5
Norway (VG-lista)[18] 7
South Africa (Springbok Radio)[19] 5
Spain (AFYVE)[20] 1
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[21] 4
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[22] 3
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[3] 6
US Billboard Hot 100[23] 2
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[24] 1
US Cash Box[25] 2
US Dance/Disco Top 80 (Billboard)[26] 3
US Top Tracks (Billboard)[26] 31
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (1984)
Position
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[27] 13
Canada (RPM Top 100 Singles)[28] 28
France (IFOP)[29] 46
Germany (Official German Charts)[30] 46
Italy (FIMI)[14] 84
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[31] 16
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[32] 46
US Billboard Hot 100[33] 26
US Cash Box[34] 21
US Top Black Singles (Billboard)[33] 12
Sales and certifications[edit]
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales
Canada (Music Canada)[35]
Gold 5,000^
France
354,000[36]
United States (RIAA)[37]
Gold 1,000,000^
United States (RIAA)[37]
Gold 500,000^
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
DJ BoBo version: "Somebody Dance with Me"[edit]
Main article: Somebody Dance with Me
DJ BoBo based his 1992 single "Somebody Dance with Me" on "Somebody's Watching Me" with new lyrics and rap. The DJ BoBo single reached No. 1 in Sweden and Switzerland, and the Top 5 in Austria, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway. In 2012, a remix of the hit was made by Remady titled "Somebody Dance With Me (Remady 2013 Mix)" by DJ BoBo featuring Manu-L. Released early in 2013, it charted on the Swiss Hitparade, reaching No. 4. The mix was made on the 20th anniversary of the initial hit by DJ BoBo in November 1992.
Beatfreakz version[edit]
"Somebody's Watching Me"
Single by Beatfreakz
Released
2006
Format
CD single
Length
2:48
Songwriter(s)
Kennedy "Rockwell" Gordy
Producer(s)
Beatfreakz
Beatfreakz singles chronology
"Somebody's Watching Me"
(2006) "Superfreak"
(2006)
"Somebody's Watching Me"
(2006) "Superfreak"
(2006)
Music video
"Somebody's Watching Me" on YouTube
In 2006, Dutch dance group Beatfreakz recorded a pseudo-cover of the song which sampled the chorus but omitted the verses. This version was a Top 10 hit in Belgium, Finland, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Track listing[edit]
CD single
Somebody's Watching Me [Hi Tack Edit]
Somebody's Watching Me [Hi Tack Club Mix]
Somebody's Watching Me [E-Craig's 2006 Remix]
Somebody's Watching Me [DeNnis Christopher Remix]
Somebody's Watching Me [Ian Carey Club Mix]
Chart performance[edit]
Chart (2006)
Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[38] 38
Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)[39] 6
Belgium (Ultratip Wallonia)[40] 4
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Dance Flanders)[41] 17
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Dance Wallonia)[42] 17
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[43] 28
France (SNEP)[44] 18
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[45] 7
Germany (Official German Charts)[46] 41
Ireland (IRMA)[47] 5
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[48] 12
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[49] 21
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[50] 7
Romania (Romanian Top 100)[51] 28
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[52] 65
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[53] 3
Other cover versions[edit]
Electro/hip hop artist/DJ/producers, Mysto & Pizzi, recorded a cover of the song for a series of GEICO television commercials.[54]
Sampling[edit]
TRU incorporated the lyrics and main melody of the chorus into their 1997 single "I Always Feel Like (Somebody's Watching Me)".[55]
In 2001, French hip hop group Fonky Family sampled the song in "Art de Rue".[56]
Canadian artist Virginia to Vegas sampled the chorus for his single "Lights Out".[57]
Appearances in other media[edit]
The Mysto & Pizzi cover version was featured in a series of commercials for GEICO that began airing in December 2008 and throughout 2009. The campaign, created by The Martin Agency,[58] consisted of various advertisements in which people would happen upon Kash, a stack of money with googly eyes, while the song is played in the background.
See also[edit]
List of number-one R&B singles of 1984 (U.S.)
Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1984
List of number-one singles of 1984 (France)
List of number-one singles of 1984 (Spain)
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Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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I'm a Man (The Spencer Davis Group song)
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"I'm a Man"
Single by The Spencer Davis Group
B-side
"I Can't Get Enough of It"
Released
January 1967
Format
7" vinyl
Genre
Rock, blues rock
Length
2:58
Label
Fontana TF785 (UK)
United Artists UA50144 (US)
Songwriter(s)
Steve Winwood, Jimmy Miller
Producer(s)
Jimmy Miller
The Spencer Davis Group singles chronology
"Gimme Some Lovin'"
(1966) "I'm a Man"
(1967) "Time Seller"
(1967)
"Gimme Some Lovin'"
(1966) "I'm a Man"
(1967) "Time Seller"
(1967)
"I'm a Man"
Single by Chicago Transit Authority
from the album The Chicago Transit Authority
A-side
"Questions 67 and 68"
Released
1970
Format
7" vinyl
Recorded
27/30 January 1969
Genre
Hard rock
Length
7:43 (Album version)
3:27 (Single version)
Label
Columbia 4-45467
Songwriter(s)
Steve Winwood, Jimmy Miller
Producer(s)
James William Guercio
Chicago Transit Authority singles chronology
"Beginnings/Colour My World"
(1971) "I'm a Man"
(1970) "Saturday in the Park"
(1972)
"Beginnings/Colour My World"
(1971) "Questions 67 and 68/I'm a Man"
(1971) "Saturday in the Park"
(1972)
"I'm a Man" is a song written by The Spencer Davis Group singer-songwriter Steve Winwood and record producer Jimmy Miller.
Contents
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1 Original version by the Spencer Davis Group
2 Chicago version
3 Other cover versions
4 VW Polo advert
5 In other media
6 References
7 External links
Original version by the Spencer Davis Group[edit]
The original recording was a fast, Hammond organ-driven blues rock track released as a single by the Spencer Davis Group in early 1967, reaching number nine in the UK Singles Chart[1][2] and number 10 in the U.S. (the US edition was slightly edited) Billboard Hot 100. It was the last hit single by the band before the brothers Steve and Muff Winwood left to pursue their own separate careers.
"I'm a Man" was included on the band's summer 1967 album, I'm a Man, as well as being featured on the 2005 Spencer Davis Group DVD Gimme Some Lovin' Live 1966. Although the recording is said to be late 1966, this date is in fact controversial. In an article and an interview on the "Living Archives" (Elävä arkisto) website of YLE, the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation, the producer of the original live recording, Mr. Tapani Karhu, clearly states that the date of the show was 19 March 1967.
Chicago version[edit]
Chicago Transit Authority (now known as Chicago) recorded a cover version of "I'm a Man" for their 1969 debut album, The Chicago Transit Authority. When the band's popularity surged after their second album, "I'm a Man" was released as the B-side to a re-release of "Questions 67 and 68". Radio stations ended up playing both sides, and "I'm a Man" reached #49 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1971 and got as high as the top ten in the UK, reached #8. The song reached #13 in Ireland.[3]
Chicago's cover arrangement features an extended percussion and drum section with a total run time of 7 minutes and 40 seconds, and is based around the distortion-heavy blues-rock guitar of Terry Kath, the drumming of Danny Seraphine, the bass of Peter Cetera, the soaring Hammond organ of Robert Lamm and the horn players periodically switching over to auxiliary percussion instruments, such as claves, cowbell, maracas, and tambourine. Kath, Cetera and Lamm each sing a verse apiece (not singing the lyrics as they were originally written, but as they misheard and/or revised them), preluding Seraphine's extended drum solo before a return to the second and third verses with the horn section and choruses that bring the song to a climactic drum roll, and finally leading into a guitar solo to bring the song to a dramatic close. This version is featured on the 1971 four record live album Chicago at Carnegie Hall and Chicago Live in Japan and has remained a fan favorite and concert staple throughout Chicago's career. Santana has also used a small part of this song in the track "Waiting" which appears on their self titled 1969 debut album.
Chicago Personnel:
Terry Kath - lead vocals (first verse), backing vocals, guitar
Peter Cetera - lead vocals (second verse), backing vocals, bass
Robert Lamm - lead vocals (third verse), backing vocals, keyboards
Danny Seraphine - drums,maracas
Jimmy Pankow - cowbell, trombone
Lee Loughnane - claves, trumpet
Walt Parazaider - tambourine, tenor saxophone
Other cover versions[edit]
The Serfs album The Early Bird Cafe, Capitol, 1968, featured a percussion-heavy intro (pre-dating Chicago's) and Mike Finnigan's lead vocal. Their arrangement segued into Bo Diddley's song of the same name.
Hungarian progressive band Syrius often played the song - combined with Brian Auger song Black Cat - in their concerts between 1970 and 1973. The studio version of the song has been recorded in 1971 in Australia, but it has been released more than twenty years later in 1994 on album Most, Mult, Lesz.
Former Chicago drummer Danny Seraphine's current band, California Transit Authority (CTA), performed "I'm a Man" at their appearance at the 2006 Modern Drummer Festival in New Jersey. The performance featured extensive drumset and percussion solos. The tune also appears on CTA's first album, Full Circle, released in 2007.
Marzio Vincenzi (lead and background vocalist originally from Bologna, Italy) and Mauro Malavasi produced in 1978 a version of "I'm a Man" under the name Macho which is a classic of disco music, or as some[who?] have classified it, "rosco music", a hybrid between rock and disco genres.
A further disco-flavored version is the one released by keyboardist Keith Emerson in his soundtrack album of the 1981 film Nighthawks, featuring him providing unlikely lead vocals. The song underpins a key scene in the movie in a slightly different version which features a longer instrumental coda not included in the original record.
In 1987 the Italian producer Gianfranco Bortolotti edited as Club House the maxi-single "I'm a man/Yéké Yéké" remixing both tracks.
Guitarist Roy Z's band, Tribe of Gypsies, included a cover of "I'm a Man" on their 1997 (Japanese import only) mini-album, Nothing Lasts Forever, adding a strong Latin rock flavor to the song.
A remix of the original was featured on Gravy: Remixes & Rarities in 2007 released by Acid Jazz Records.
Los Lonely Boys recorded a version on their 2008 album Forgiven.
VW Polo advert[edit]
Volkswagen aired a UK television commercial titled "Dog" in late winter 2008, which featured a dog miming singing "I'm a Man". The version used in the advert for the Polo was a cover version by a young British singer-songwriter, Charlie Winston. The Noam Murro-directed[4] advert was banned after complaints from the RSPCA and over 750 viewers.[5][6]
In other media[edit]
An instrumental disco version of the song is occasionally featured in the game show The Price Is Right mostly for reveals of new cars.
The Live365 Internet radio service Radio Vietnam uses excerpts from "I'm a Man" as one of their station IDs.
The song was used in the Mad Men Season 7 premiere episode, "Time Zones".
The song was featured in the 2014 film Pawn Sacrifice.
The 2015 film Minions featured the song and is also on the film's soundtrack.
In 2016, the original Spencer Davis Group version of "I'm A Man" was used in an advert for Amazon Prime in the UK and Germany.
In 2017, the original Spencer Davis Group version of "I'm A Man" was used in Episode 5 of The Vietnam War, a documentary by Ken Burns.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ [1][dead link]
Jump up ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 103. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
Jump up ^ Jaclyn Ward. "The Irish Charts - All there is to know". Irishcharts.ie. Archived from the original on 2009-06-03. Retrieved 2017-07-12.
Jump up ^ "VW Polo Dog". Glossyinc.com. Retrieved 2016-10-01.
Jump up ^ O'Meara, Ryan (2008-03-29). "RSCPA Complain About 'Abused' Dog in Volkswagen TV Advert - Let's Get Our Priorities Right Shall We?". K9 Magazine. K9 Media Ltd. Archived from the original on 2008-09-20. Retrieved 2008-10-31.
Jump up ^ Judd, Terri (2008-06-25). "Kiss goodbye to your sales, Stonewall tells 'homophobic' Heinz after advert is pulled". The Independent. Independent News & Media. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
External links[edit]
Review of "I'm a Man" by Richie Unterberger at Allmusic
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