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. The song was the B-side to "You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else". ''Billboard'' named the song #58 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time.

Xscape version and samples

*A 1995

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by R&B group, Xscape, spent one week at number one on the U.S. R&B Singles chart and reached number eight on the pop chart. *A remix was also made, which sampled former labelmate

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's " Love T.K.O." *R&B artist

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sampled the Xscape version for his song "Might Be" from the album ''

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'' in 2014. This song would later be covered by DJ Luke Nasty in 2015, also sampling the Xscape version.

Other versions

*In 1996,

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and the New Generation Chorale released the album, ''Worked It Out''. It included a version of "Who Can I Run To?" that answered the question with "I need the Lord." *At the end of 2008, this song was reworked into a

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track with vocals from

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, released on Thick Recordings. * Juvenile sampled the original version of the song in 2007 for a song also called "Who Can I Run To?" featuring

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and

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. It was on an album entitled "Diary of a Soulja" that was never released.

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