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You Got It (The Right Stuff)

"You Got It (The Right Stuff)"
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Single by New Kids on the Block
from the album Hangin' Tough
B-side Remix
Released November 7, 1988
Format Cassette, 12" maxi, CD single
Recorded 1988
Genre R&B,synthpop, dance-pop
Length 4:13
Label Columbia
Writer(s) Maurice Starr
Producer(s) Maurice Starr
New Kids on the Block singles chronology
"Please Don't Go Girl"
(1988)
"You Got It (The Right Stuff)"
(1989)
"I'll Be Loving You (Forever)"
(1989)

"You Got It (The Right Stuff)" is a 1988 single from New Kids on the Block. The lead vocals were sung by Jordan Knight and Donnie Wahlberg. The second single from the group's second album Hangin' Tough, it peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart in early 1989, while topping the UK charts in November 1989. On the album, it was simply listed as "The Right Stuff." A Spanish version of the song was made ("Autentica") and peaked #11 in Spain Top 40 Radio.

The single appeared in the Top 40 for the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart the week of January 14, 1989, rising from #45 to #37. "You Got It" reached its peak of #3 the week of March 11, 1989. Altogether, "You Got It (The Right Stuff)" spent 5 weeks in the Top 10, 8 weeks in the Top 20, and 13 weeks in the Top 40. The song was number one in Australia in August 1989, and in the UK (on its second release) in November 1989. On March 29, 1989 the single was certified Gold. "You've Got It (The Right Stuff)" is commonly regarded as one of the band's signature songs. In the music video, Jordan Knight is seen wearing a Bauhaus T-shirt. The song ranked as #92 on VH1's 100 greatest songs of the 80's.

The song can be heard in the 1989 film The Wizard. In 1992, "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied the song on his Off the Deep End album as "The White Stuff," a loving ode to the white filling in Oreo cookies. It was also joked about in the episode "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" on Family Guy. In a King of the Hill episode, Boomhauer says about a boy band called 4Skore, "Talkin' about dang ol' boy band, man... talkin' 'bout prance around, goin' 'Oh oh oh oh...'". Kid Rock, on his album The Polyfuze Method, sampled the song on his "Killin' Brain Cells". This song is featured on the game Dance Dance Revolution X2. In the season 8 episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia "Charlie's Mom Has Cancer", Dr. Jinx (Sean Combs) plays the song on his electric bass to help Dennis have feelings again. In an after credits clip of a season 6 episode of Psych that Joey McIntyre co-starred in, Joey, James Roday and Dule Hill dance to the song.


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