"Rub You The Right Way" | ||||
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Single by Johnny Gill | ||||
from the album Johnny Gill | ||||
Released | March 13, 1990 | |||
Format | CD single CD maxi |
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Recorded | September 1989 Flyte Tyme Studios (Edina, MN) |
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Genre | R&B/New Jack Swing | |||
Length | 5:32 | |||
Writer(s) | James Harris III, Terry Lewis | |||
Producer | Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis | |||
Johnny Gill singles chronology | ||||
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"Rub You the Right Way" is the title of an R&B single by Johnny Gill. Taken as the first single from the artist's debut album under Motown, the hit song spent one week in May 1990 at number-one on the US R&B chart, and made it to number three on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in August of that year.[1] The single also peaked at number sixteen on the dance charts [2] and was Gill's first single upon the breakup of New Edition and his biggest hit to date.
The song appeared in popular videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, playing on fictional New Jack Swing radio station CSR 103.9.
End of year chart (1990) | Position |
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U.S. Billboard Hot 100[3] | 23 |