"What You Don't Know" is a song recorded by American

Latin freestyle Freestyle music, also called Latin freestyle or Latin hip-hop ''(sic)'' is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in the New York metropolitan area and Philadelphia, primarily among Hispanic Americans and Italian Americans in the 1980s. I ...

vocal group

Exposé Expose, exposé, or exposed may refer to: News sources * Exposé (journalism), a form of investigative journalism * '' The Exposé'', a British conspiracist website Film and TV Film * ''Exposé'' (film), a 1976 thriller film * ''Exposed'' (1932 ...

for their 1989 second studio

album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...

of the same name. Written and produced by the group's founder Lewis A. Martineé, the lead vocals on "What You Don't Know" were performed by

Gioia Bruno Gioia Bruno (born Carmen Gioia Bruno June 11, 1963, sometimes professionally credited as just Gioia) is an Italian-born American popular music singing, singer, most noted as a member of the vocal group Exposé (band), Exposé. In September 2006, ...

. "What You Don't Know" was released as the

lead single A lead single (also known as a debut single) is the first single to be released from a studio album by an artist or a band, usually before the album itself is released and also occasionally on the same day of the album's release date. Release s ...

from the album on May 20, 1989, by

Arista Records Arista Records () is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. The label was previously handled by BMG Entertainmen ...

, and peaked at number eight on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in July 1989, extending the group's streak of consecutive top-ten US pop hits to five. Whitburn, Joel (2004). ''The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits'', 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 215. On the ''Billboard''

Dance Club Songs Dance Club Songs is a chart published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine in the United States. It is a national look over of club disc jockeys to determine the most popular songs being played in nightclubs across the country. It was launched as t ...

chart, it reached number two and number eight on the ''Billboard''

Dance/Electronic Singles Sales In the issue dated March 16, 1985, ''Billboard'' magazine debuted its first chart devoted exclusively to 12-inch Singles Sales. The 50-position weekly ranking joined ''Billboard''s established Club Songs chart, reduced to the same 50 positions, ...

chart. It was the first single by the group to be certified

Gold Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile met ...

by the

Recording Industry Association of America The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors that the RIAA says "create, manufacture, and/o ...

(RIAA). In the United Kingdom, the single peaked for two weeks at number 99 on the

UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-s ...

in September 1989.Official Charts Company info
OfficialCharts.com. Retrieved 18 May 2009.

Background and composition

"What You Don't Know" features a prominent

horn section A horn section is a group of musicians playing horns. In an orchestra or concert band, it refers to the musicians who play the "French" horn, and in a British-style brass band it is the tenor horn players. In many popular music genres, the te ...

accompanying the singers, and there is a

guitar solo A guitar solo is a melodic passage, instrumental section, or entire piece of music, pre-written (or improvised) to be played on a classical guitar, electric guitar or an acoustic guitar. In 20th and 21st century traditional music and popular m ...

between the second and third verses. Although the group continued to have success on the dance charts, this was one of the final Exposé pop hits featuring a

beat Beat, beats or beating may refer to: Common uses * Patrol, or beat, a group of personnel assigned to monitor a specific area ** Beat (police), the territory that a police officer patrols ** Gay beat, an area frequented by gay men * Battery (c ...

, with which they had become associated from most of the singles off their previous album, '' Exposure'' (1987). Many of the singles released by the group from this point on were mid-tempo or ballads.

Music video

The accompanying

music video A music video is a video of variable duration, that integrates a music song or a music album with imagery that is produced for promotion (marketing), promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a m ...

for "What You Don't Know" features the singers rehearsing with a band on stage, then near the end of the music video the girls rush back to be with their respective boyfriends.

Track listing

US 7" vinyl single (Arista Records AS1-9836) :A "What You Don't Know" – 3:58 :B "Walk Along with Me" – 3:49 US 12" vinyl single (Arista Records AD1-9837) :A1 "What You Don't Know (Atomic Mix)" – 6:35 :A2 "What You Don't Know (Might Hurt You Beats)" – 2:36 :A3 "What You Don't Know (Radio Mix)" – 4:10 :B1 "What You Don't Know (Bass Mix)" – 7:09 :B2 "What You Don't Know (Crossover Mix)" – 6:36

Credits and personnel

–

lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of t ...

Ann Curless Ann Curless (born Ann Katherine Curless; October 7, 1963, in Albany, New York) is an American popular music singer, most notable as part of Exposé. Education Curless was raised in Miami Beach, Florida and attended school there. During her ye ...

–

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are use ...

Jeanette Jurado Jeanette Livier Jurado (born November 14, 1965, East Los Angeles, California) is a member and a lead vocalist of the popular American girl group, Exposé, along with Ann Curless, Gioia Bruno and, in the group's later years, Kelly Moneymaker. ...

– backing vocals * Lewis A. Martineé –

writing Writing is a medium of human communication which involves the representation of a language through a system of physically Epigraphy, inscribed, Printing press, mechanically transferred, or Word processor, digitally represented Symbols (semiot ...

, producer, engineer, mixing *"Little" Cesar Sogbe – engineer (assistant engineer) *Mike Couzzi – engineer (brass recording engineer) *Ismael Garcia –

executive producer Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the making of a commercial entertainment product. Depending on the medium, the executive producer may be concerned with management accounting or associated with legal issues (like copyrights o ...

*Francisco J. Diaz – executive producer *Mike Fuller – mastering *Rique "Billy Bob" Alonso – mixing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

External links

U.S. 12" single info from discogs.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:What You Don't Know (Expose song) 1989 singles Exposé (group) songs Songs written by Lewis Martineé Arista Records singles 1989 songs