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"It Takes Two" is a song by New York City hip hop duo Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock that became a top-40 single and was later certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Since it was released in 1988 by Profile Records, the song has been covered and sampled by several recording artists. [1]
The first Profile release was "It Takes Two". [4] It used multiple samples from the James Brown and Lyn Collins 1972 song "Think (About It)". [4] The track first became a regional hit and then slowly climbed the Billboard Hot 100, picking up a multi-platinum single certification. The song also peaked at No. 3 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.
In 1989 a Children In Need charity single was released (retitled "It Takes Two, Baby") featuring BBC Radio 1 DJs Liz Kershaw and Bruno Brookes with Jive Bunny and Londonbeat. It charted at #53 in the UK Singles chart. [35] [36] The song charted on the Canadian Adult Contemporary charts in 1982 on a single by Susan Jacks. [37] [failed verification]
It Takes Two is the debut studio album by American hip hop duo Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock. [3] It was released on August 9, 1988, through Profile Records. [4] The recording sessions took place at Hillside Sound Studio in Englewood, New Jersey. The album was produced by William Hamilton, Donald Dee Bowden, Thomas Dean, Rob Base, and DJ E-Z Rock.
Take Two is a duet album by Motown label mates Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston, released August 25, 1966 on the Motown's Tamla label. The album was titled after its most successful selection, the Top 5 R&B/Top 20 Pop hit " It Takes Two ", which was to this point Gaye's most successful duet with another singer.
The song contains five breaks which have been sampled widely in hip-hop and drum and bass, most famously, the "Yeah! Woo!" and "It takes two to make a thing go right" loops in Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock's "It Takes Two" [1] which is composed almost completely from samples of Think, including a few lines of Collins' vocals. [5]
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It Takes Two (American TV series), a 1982 sitcom starring Richard Crenna and Patty Duke; It Takes Two (Australian TV series), a 2006 version of the UK celebrity singing series Just the Two of Us; It Takes Two (Singaporean TV series), a 2012 Chinese-language drama; It Takes Two, a 1969 American game show