You Have Been Single for a Long Time

Early last month as part of this blog's "Soul Train Saturdays" we featured The SOS Band with arguably their biggest hit "Take Your Time (Do It Right)", and today here's another S.O.S. Band hit a few years later. Though not as successful, the yellow outfits they're wearing are still pretty sweet and the video is pure 80's. From Atlanta, Georgia, here is The S.O.S. (Sounds of Success) Band with "Just the Way You Like It"...




Lyrics | S.O.S Band lyrics - Just The Way You Like It lyrics

"Just the Way You Like It"

by The S.O.S. Band
from the album: Just the Way You Like It
released: 1984

U.S. Billboard Hot 100 peak: #64
U.S. R&B charts peak: #6

Take The Time Do It Right

Anytime I can get a video of some lip-synching R&B band or solo act on Soul Train on here, that's never a bad thing. So, beginning today and running every Saturday through the month of October, The Excellent 80's brings "Soul Train Saturdays." Today's kickoff is a little dance number from The S.O.S. Band. With Mary Davis on lead and a whole lot of captains who've obviously come directly from their yachts, here is one of the last big hits of the Disco era, from 1980 it's "Take Your Time (Do It Right)" Oh, and if I didn't say that the dude in the green jacket on bass wasn't my favorite member, I'd be lying.




Lyrics | S.O.S Band lyrics - Take Your Time (Do It Right) lyrics

"Take Your Time (Do It Right)"
Single by The S.O.S. Band
from the album S.O.S.
A-side "Take Your Time (Do It Right)" Part 1
B-side "Take Your Time (Do It Right)" Part 2
Released March 18, 1980
Format 7" single
Genre Disco, pop, R&B
Length 3:51 (radio edit)
7:44 (full version)
Label Tabu
Writer(s) Sigidi Abdallah
Harold Clayton
Producer Sigidi Abdallah
Certification Platinum

U.S. Billboard Hot 100 peak: #3
U.S. R&B charts peak: #1