Betcha by Golly Wow!

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"Betcha By Golly Wow"

Single by The Stylistics
from the album The Stylistics
Released	1971
Genre	R&B
Label	Amherst Records
Chart positions
Number 3 U.S.; Number 13 UK

"Betcha by Golly Wow!"

UK CD single
Single by Prince
from the album Emancipation
B-side(s)	"Right Back Here In My Arms"
Released	13 November 1996
Format	Cassette single CD single
Recorded	Paisley Park Studios, 1995
Genre	Pop, Ballad
Length	3:30
Label	NPG Records/EMI
Writer(s)	Linda Creed, Thom Bell
Producer(s)	Prince
Chart positions
#10 R&B Airplay #32 US Hot 100 Airplay #11 UK
Prince singles chronology
"Gold" (1995)	…	"NYC Live" (1997)
Prince (UK) chronology
"Dinner with Delores" (1996)	"Betcha by Golly Wow!" (1996)	"The Holy River" (1997)

"Betcha by Golly Wow!" is a song written by Linda Creed and Thom Bell in 1970. It was one of the biggest hits by The Stylistics and released one year after. It made number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and on the UK Singles Chart in 1972 and number thirteen that same year.

At first, the song was recoverd in 1970 by the trumpeter Freddie Hubbard's album The Best of Freddie Hubbard. But the composition scored a hit when it was released by The Stylistics in 1971, in their first album (The Stylistics) of this Philadelphia soul group.

Norman Connors, Errol Dunkley, Dionne Warwick, Phyllis Hyman and Aaron Neville have also covered the song.

The song was also sampled on the Mariah Carey track "Stay The Night" from her 2005 The Emancipation of Mimi album.

[edit] Prince version

Another version was released from Prince's (then known as ) 1996 album Emancipation. had stated that he always wanted to release a cover version but his record company, Warner Bros. had not permitted it. The CD single was released in two formats in the UK, one with a picture sleeve and one with an orange cardboard sleeve that included a picture disc and a mini-poster. The song was also issued on cassette. All versions of the single had "Right Back Here In My Arms" as the B-side. Both tracks were the album version. The track was not released as a single in the U.S. yet a music video was produced. It charted fairly well in the U.S., based on airplay figures and almost made the top ten in the UK.

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