Who Can I Run To

"Who Can I Run To"
Single by Xscape
from the album Off the Hook
Released October 3, 1995
Format CD single, Cassette single, 7" vinyl
Recorded 1995
Genre Soul, R&B
Length 3:34
Label Columbia
Writer(s) Alstin, Roebuck, Simmons
Producer(s) Jermaine Dupri
Certification Gold (RIAA)
Xscape singles chronology
"Feels So Good"
(1995)		 "Who Can I Run To"
(1995)		 "Do You Want To"
(1996)

"Who Can I Run To" is a song originally recorded by The Jones Girls in 1979. A 1995 cover version by R&B group, Xscape, spent one week at number one on the U.S. R&B Singles chart and reached number eight on the pop chart.[1] A remix was also made which sampled from Teddy Pendergrass's Love T.K.O.

Juvenile sampled the Xscape version of the song in 2007 for a song also called "Who Can I Run To?" featuring Mannie Fresh and Soulja Slim. It was on an album entitled "Diary of a Soulja" that was never released.[2] In 1996, Ricky Dillard and the New Generation Chorale released the album, "Worked It Out." It included a version of "Who Can I Run To?" that answered the question with "I need the Lord." [3]

At the end of 2008, this song was reworked into a house music track with vocals from Dawn Tallman, released on Thick Recordings.

Chart positions

Chart (1995) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 8
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs 1
UK Singles Charts 31

References

  1. ↑ "Chart Archive". AllMusic. Retrieved 2007-06-23.
  2. ↑ (http://cmdegreez.blogspot.com/2011/01/juvenile-diary-of-soulja-unreleased.html)
  3. ↑ (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003GGMM2O/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp).

See also