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Automatic (Pointer Sisters song)

"Automatic"
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Single by The Pointer Sisters
from the album Break Out
B-side "Nightline"
Released January 13, 1984
Format
Recorded 1983 (Los Angeles, California)
Genre
Length 4:48 (album version)
3:59 (radio version)
6:06 (extended version)
Label Planet
Writer(s)
  • Brock Walsh
  • Mark Goldenberg
Producer(s) Richard Perry
The Pointer Sisters singles chronology
"I Need You"
(1983)
"Automatic"
(1984)
"Jump (For My Love)"
(1984)
"Automatic"
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Single by Ultra Naté
from the album Grime, Silk, & Thunder
Released 2007
Length 4:58
Label Tommy Boy Entertainment
Writer(s) Brock Walsh, Mark Goldenberg
Ultra Naté singles chronology
"Love's the Only Drug"
(2006)
"Automatic"
(2007)
"Give It All You Got"
(2007)
Music video
"Automatic" on YouTube

"Automatic" is a song by American vocal group The Pointer Sisters, released by the Planet label in January 13, 1984 as the second single from their tenth studio album Break Out (1983).

"Automatic" reached position number five on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and became one of the Pointers' signature songs. Eventually, three other singles from Break Out reached the top-ten on the Hot 100 consecutively.

According to Ruth Pointer, "Automatic" was the final song chosen for Breakout: "We were taking a break from recording in the office of Jim Tract, who was Richard Perry's right-hand man, and Jim mentioned that he had a stash of tapes we might want to listen to [while on] a breather...We all sat up straight when we first heard ['Automatic'] and told Richard we wanted to include it on the album. 'Okay', he said 'But who would sing the low part?' 'Are you kidding me?' I said, 'I'll do the low part!'"

Although Break Out largely comprised dance tracks, its lead single was the ballad "I Need You", chosen by producer Richard Perry in hopes of reinforcing the Pointer Sisters presence at R&B radio: the dance track "Jump (for My Love)" was intended as the second single but the heavy airplay afforded "Automatic" as an album cut by both dance clubs and radio stations caused the substitution of "Automatic" for "Jump..." as the second single release from Break Out, although "Jump..." would become the most successful US single off Break Out when it became the album's third single. The first Top 40 hit to feature Ruth Pointer's distinctive contralto on lead, "Automatic" reached #5 on the Hot 100 in Billboard in April 1984, also charting on the magazine's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Dance Club Play rankings, its #2 R&B chart peak making "Automatic" the highest charting R&B hit by the Pointer Sisters as a trio (in their original four-woman format the Pointer Sisters did score an R&B #1 hit with "How Long (Betcha' Got a Chick on the Side)").


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