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The title is a reference to the phrase "doin' the wild thing," a euphemism for sex. According to producer Mario Caldato Jr., who engineered and mixed the song, producer Michael Ross was inspired by an utterance of Fab 5 Freddy "Come on baby let's do the wild thing" in Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It, and asked Young MC to write the lyrics. [2]
Tone Lōc's debut album, Lōc-ed After Dark, was released in January 1989. The video for the first single, "Wild Thing," became a staple on MTV in the US. The song rose to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the top twenty in Australia. The second single, "Funky Cold Medina," also became a hit. It reached the top 5 in the US, peaking at No. 3 ...
It was the second single from Tone Lōc's debut album, Lōc-ed After Dark (1989). The single was released on March 18, 1989, and rose to number three on the Billboard Hot 100 the following month where it went platinum, selling over one million copies and becoming the second ever platinum-certified rap single (after " Wild Thing " from the same ...
Lōc-ed After Dark is the debut studio album by American rapper Tone Lōc. [2] [3] It was released on January 23, 1989, via Delicious Vinyl. [4]The album was produced by Matt Dike, Michael Ross, and the Dust Brothers.
The album was released in January 1989. However, the single was released earlier and made Billboard's Hot 100 chart December 3, 1988. So, a November release at the latest. The copyright registration for the "Wild Thing" record lists October 11 as the publication date, which is usually a little before it is actually released to the public.
The name ToneLoc was short for "Tone Locator" and was a word play on the name of the rap artist known as Tone Lōc. ToneLoc took advantage of the extended return codes available on US Robotics modems (e.g., ATX6 [ 1 ] ) to detect dial tones upon dialing a number and to detect when a human answered the phone in addition to scanning for other modems.
Prior to helming Wild Things, McNaughton had made a name for himself as the director of acclaimed but little-seen films like 1986's Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and 1993's Mad Dog and Glory ...
Tone-Lok Effects are guitar effects pedals from a (now discontinued) product line, introduced by Ibanez in 1999. [ 1 ] [ when? ] In contrast with other guitar pedals, they included a "Lok" feature, engaged for each adjustment by pressing down on its corresponding potentiometer 's control knob.