"Love's Gonna Get You" is a 1985 dance single by Jocelyn Brown, a singer who had sung with the groups

Salsoul Orchestra The Salsoul Orchestra was the backing band of session musicians for many acts on the New York City label Salsoul Records and, under its own name, recorded several hit singles and albums between 1975 and 1982. History The orchestra was formed i ...

and

Inner Life Inner Life was an American club-oriented soul studio project formed in 1979 that enjoyed success with "I'm Caught Up (In a One Night Love Affair)" (1979), "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" (1981), and "Moment of My Life" (1982). Tracks featured th ...

. The single was the first of four that Brown took to number one on the US dance chart. It also reached number thirty-eight on the R&B singles chart, and was her second R&B top 40 hit as a solo artist.

Samples

Love's Gonna Get You has been sampled in 80+ songs. It also interpolates a lyric from Ain't No Mountain High Enough by Inner Life which Jocelyn was featured on. One particular line in the song, "I've got the power!" became particularly prominent in the mainstream when it was sampled (without permission) by the hip hop/ dance group,

Snap! Snap! is a German Eurodance group formed in 1989 by producers Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti. The act has been through a number of line-up changes over the years, including American singers, songwriters and rappers Thea Austin, Turbo B ...

on their smash hit, " The Power". In 1991, Moby sampled the "yeah" vocal of the song for his hit single " Go". Boogie Down Productions' Love's Gonna Get'cha (Material Love) sampled the vocals as well.

Technotronic Technotronic was a Belgian electronic music project formed in 1987 by Jo Bogaert, who originally gained popularity in Europe as a solo artist with various new beat projects, including Acts of Madmen and Nux Nemo. Together with rapper Manuela ...

also used the "yeah" vocal on their 1991 song Money Makes The World Go Round. In addition, two lines from the song, "Why waste your time, you know you're gonna be mine" and "I'm gonna get you, baby (I'm gonna get you, yes I am)" were resung by UK soul singer

Angie Brown Angie Brown (born 13 June 1963) is a British singer and songwriter from Brixton, South London. She is a co-artist on the hit single " I'm Gonna Get You" (1992) by Bizarre Inc and performed on a number of recordings with them as lead vocalist in ...

to create the 1993 hit " I'm Gonna Get You" by

Bizarre Inc Bizarre Inc were an English techno group. Formed in 1989 as a duo between English DJs Dean Meredith and Mark "Aaron" Archer (not to be confused with the film producer of the same name), they later re-formed as a trio consisting of Meredith, ...

, which was a number-one dance hit that year, and was frequently played on dance radio through the 1990s.

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