Whatcha Gonna Do?

Album

Original Soundtrack ( S'Express)

Label

A&M Records

Genre

Dance-pop

Composer(s)

Cory Lerios, David Jenkins

Entered Chart

Apr 16, 1977

Peak Date

Aug 20, 1977

Released

March 1977

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

A&M 1920

B-Side

Atlanta June

Pablo Cruise is a pop band from the San Francisco Bay area which hit big in the late 1970s. It was formed in 1973 by David Jenkins, Cory Lerios, and Steve Price, who had been members of the band Stoneground, and they were joined by bassist Bud Cockrell, who had previously played with a Bay Area band called It's A Beautiful Day. Cockrell left the band in 1977 before it hit big and was replaced by Bruce Day, who was the bassist when the band was at its peak, but he left in 1980. This single was their first major hit, and it reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song is about a man who has a good woman who loves him, but risks driving her away because he's acting like a jerk, asking what will he do when she inevitably gets fed up and walks out on him? >>

Whatcha gonna do when she says goodbye
Whatcha gonna do when she is gone
Whatcha gonna do when she says goodbye
Whatcha gonna do when she is gone

So you're having trouble with your romance
Well you better check it out before it goes
'Cause you may not be seein'
Things just the way you should
And you don't recognize what everybody knows

Whatcha gonna do when she says goodbye
Whatcha gonna do when she is gone
Whatcha gonna do when she says goodbye
Whatcha gonna do when she is gone

And all at once you're ready to hang it up
'Cause things didn't turn out the way you planned
And all your friends they're calling you a fool
'Cause you don't know a good thing
When you got it in your hands

Whatcha gonna do when she says goodbye
Whatcha gonna do when she is gone
Whatcha gonna do when she says goodbye
Whatcha gonna do when she is gone

And all at once you're ready to hang it up
'Cause things didn't turn out the way you planned
And all your friends they're calling you a fool
'Cause you don't know a good thing
When you got it in your hands

Whatcha gonna do when she says goodbye
Whatcha gonna do when she is gone
Whatcha gonna do when she says goodbye
Whatcha gonna do when she is gone