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The first two ABC singles were "Let's Break Up for a While" and "Thank You for Loving Me", but the group did not return to the charts until 1965's "Gotta Have Your Love", peaking at #33 on the R&B Singles chart and #77 on the Hot 100. [2] The single's backing vocalists were Valerie Simpson, Nick Ashford, and Melba Moore. [3] [4]
The accompanying music video for "Gotcha" was directed by Samuel Leighton-Dore and shot mainly in black-and-white. [18] [19] It premiered on Vevo on 16 July 2012. [19] The video features Mauboy inside a recording studio performing with a band playing instruments to the song. Scenes from The Sapphires are intercut throughout the video. [19]
The Sapphires – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack peaked at number one on the ARIA Album Chart and was certified double platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). It also reached number 15 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. A deluxe edition, featuring an additional five songs, was released on 16 November 2012.
The Sapphires is a 2012 Australian musical comedy-drama film based on the 2004 stage play The Sapphires by Tony Briggs, which is loosely based on a real-life 1960s girl group that included Briggs' mother and aunt. [4] The film is directed by Wayne Blair and written by Keith Thompson and Briggs.
"Got to Have Your Love" is a song by American hip hop and electro funk group Mantronix, featuring vocals from American recording artist Wondress. It was released by Capitol Records in December 1989 as the lead single from Mantronix's fourth studio album, This Should Move Ya (1990).
"I Can't Help Myself" was recorded by American singer La Toya Jackson for her ninth studio album Stop in the Name of Love, which consists of Motown covers. [19] "I Can't Help Myself" was released as the album's only single in April 1995. The single's B-side, a cover of the Supremes' "Baby Love", is also from the album.
In a review of the album, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that "While the keyboard funk of 'Chemical Love,' 'Gotta Have You,' and 'Queen in the Black' doesn't sound new, it does sound alive, which is better than Wonder has sounded in years." [3] A review in Musician was less favorable, calling it "generic, repetitive 70s-style funk". [4]
Cash Box described "Without the One You Love (Life's Not Worth While)" as "a feelingful jump'er" which is done "in very commercial fashion" and which it expected to repeat the success of "Baby, I Need Your Loving." [4] Allmusic critic William Ruhlmann attributes its relative lack of chart success to a number of factors.