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In the United States, "Smooth Operator" was released in February 1985, serving as the album's second US single. The song became Sade's first top-10 entry in the US, peaking at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in May 1985.
From 1985's jazzy 'Smooth Operator' to tracks from last year's excellent Soldier of Love, it's all state-of-the-art slow-jams all the time, driven by Sade Adu's touch-me-now contralto." [4] Lloyd Bradley of BBC Music commented, "The best thing about this set is it'll allow anybody who didn't quite get the band first time around to catch up."
"Smooth Operator" is the lead single released from Big Daddy Kane's second album, It's a Big Daddy Thing. Arguably one of Big Daddy Kane's most popular songs, the song topped the newly formed Billboard Hot Rap Singles chart and was a hit on the R&B and dance charts, peaking at number 11 and 17 on the charts respectively.
Smooth Operator" is a 1984 song by Sade. Smooth operator or smoothing operator may also refer to: "Smooth Operator" (Big Daddy Kane song), 1989 "Smooth Operator", a song by Sarah Vaughan released in 1959 "Smooth Operator", a song by Dorothy Dandridge recorded in 1958 but not released until 1999; A smoothing operator, used to remove noise from data
Stuart Colin Matthewman (born 18 August 1960), also known as Cottonbelly, is an English songwriter, record producer and musician. [1] He is best known as the guitarist and saxophonist of the band Sade.
"Smooth" is a song performed by American rock band Santana and Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty, who sings the lead vocals. It was released to radio on June 15, 1999, as the lead single from Santana's 1999 studio album, Supernatural .
Cash Box described the lyrics saying that "in James Taylor fashion, Jim Croce tries to track down his long lost lover with the help of the operator." [3] The song relates one side of a conversation with a telephone operator. The speaker is trying to find the phone number of his former lover, who has moved to Los Angeles with his former best friend.
What evidence is there linking Sade's "Smooth Operator" with the Iran-Contra affair? It is a fascinating claim, but I would like to see some sources. cojoco 11:10, 1 February 2007 (UTC) [ reply ]