"That's What Love Can Do" is a song by American female pop group Boy Krazy, written and produced by British hitmaking team
Stock Aitken Waterman
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, and first released in 1991 as Boy Krazy's debut single. Lead vocals were performed by group member Johnna Cummings. This was the only single in which group member Renée Veneziale would be involved, leaving the band in 1991 soon after its release. The song did not become a hit, peaking at number 86 in the UK; however, it reached number 18 in US.
Background and covers
The B-side on both releases was a cover of "One Thing Leads to Another", originally by the SAW-produced boyband Yell!. The lyrics were slightly rewritten on Boy Krazy's version to reflect the gender change. The original 1991 release featured Renée Veneziale singing the second verse; this was re-recorded by Josselyne Jones in the 1993 version, which can be found on the 1993 single and the '' Boy Krazy'' album. "That's What Love Can Do" was also recorded by
Samantha Fox
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, who recorded the song for her '' Just One Night'' album from 1991; however, the song was not completed in 1991, left unfinished and was eventually released with an additional 2012 production on the ''Just One Night Deluxe Edition'' in June 2012. In 1993, the Japanese female group Giri Giri Girls released a
Japanese-language
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cover of the song, entitled "Your Cool Shore" (あなたの事ですずしい渚 ''Anata no koto de suzushii nagisa'').
In 1999
Pete Waterman
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produced a remake of "That's What Love Can Do" performed by session singers Cheryl (aka Sheryl) Jay (lead), Vicky Dowdall (later in
Girls@Play
Girls@Play were a British five-piece girl group, consisting of Vicky Dowdall, Lisa-Jay White, Rita Simons, Lynsey Shaw and Shelley Nash.Toutes Les Filles. The track was issued in August 1999 and, promoted by a video mostly shot on the Spanish seaside and also by numerous television spots, "That's What Love Can Do" by Toutes Les Filles charted higher in the UK than the Boy Krazy original while still failing to become a major hit peaking at number 44. The television promo for the single included an appearance by Toutes Les Filles on a program hosted by
Jonathan Wilkes
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Early life and career
Jonathan Wilkes was born in Baddeley Green, Stoke-on-Trent, to Eileen Wilkes and Graham Wilkes, and spent most of his childhood in ...
who maintained contact with group member Nikki Wheeler with the couple eventually marrying.
Critical reception
Retrospectively, in 2021, British magazine ''
Classic Pop
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'' ranked the song number 35 in their list of 'Top 40 Stock Aitken Waterman songs', adding that "it remains a firm fan favourite", and considered Fox's version as being "inferior".
Chart performance
At the end of 1992, "That's What Love Can Do" became successful in North American nightclubs, and radio airplay soon followed, prompting a re-release in early 1993. For this reissue, the song was remixed (the radio edit being an edit of the Hot Tracks remix, which was popular at nightclubs). The song was a success this time round, becoming the group's signature song, and peaking at number 18 in the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. It also reached number one in Pop airplay on the '' Radio & Records'' CHR/Pop chart, and number two on the
Top 40 Mainstream
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chart. Excluding songs that charted after the Hot 100 rule changed to allow airplay-only songs to be eligible to chart, "That's What Love Can Do" is the lowest-peaking song on the Hot 100 that went number one in Pop airplay on the Radio and Records chart. In the UK it was still not a big hit, peaking at number 80.
Music video
Three videos were filmed: the 1991 video has the girls in a revolving scenario, the five girls sitting in swivel chairs, radiators, and also holding an electric fan or on a phone booth, among other things. Then, the 1993 American video shows the girls in a bar, intercut with some scenes of the girls choreographing the song. Last, the 1993 British video mixed both previous video clips (with Renée Veneziale edited out of the parts containing the original video), with additional footage from the 1993 American video in it.