Stuff Like That

Album

Sounds...and Stuff Like That!!

Label

A&M Records

Genre

Disco

Duration

8:00

Composer(s)

Stephen Gadd;Richard Tee;Valerie Simpson;Nickolas Ashford;Quincy Jones;Ralph McDonald;Eric Gale

Entered Chart

Jun 10, 1978

Peak Date

Sep 2, 1978

Released

June 1978

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

A&M 2043 A

B-Side

There's A Train Leavin'

"Stuff Like That" is a hit song with music and lyrics written by Quincy Jones, Ashford & Simpson, Steve Gadd, Eric Gale, Ralph MacDonald and Richard Tee. The song was originally an instrumental rhythm track. Jones worked on the track with Ashford & Simpson, Chaka Khan and studio musicians Gadd, Gale, MacDonald and Tee to turn it into a single. Ashford & Simpson and Khan featured as vocalists while George Young was playing alto saxophone. The song was included on Jones' 1978 album Sounds...And Stuff Like That!. The single spent one week at number one on the R&B singles chart, for the week ending 1 July 1978, and peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.[1] For his 1995 album Q's Jook Joint Jones modernized the song. This time vocals were provided by Ashford & Simpson, Khan, Brandy, Charlie Wilson and Ray Charles while Greg Phillinganes was playing keyboards. In 2002 the song was featured in a Peter Lindbergh-directed Gap TV commercial starring Will Kemp, this time credited to QJ's Jook Joint and Brothers Johnson

I walked in the joint
They were lined up back to back
Anything you can name
But it ain't no shame
No, no, no, no, ain't no stuff like that
Let me hear you say do it (Do it, do it)
Oh yeah, say it again (Do it, do it)
Oh, Lord, la, la, la, la
(What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?)
I don't know, but it sure feels good
(What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?)
Oh, oh
Before my eyes
Was the promise of paradise
Is she real?
Can she feel?
She's a dream
You know what I mean
'Cause she was built out of a
(Stuff like that, do it, do it)
Oh, yes, she was now
(Stuff like that, do it, do it)
Oh, sweet baby
(Stuff like that, do it, do it)
(Stuff like that)
You know, I like it myself
I knew I was captured
By the rhythm of the magic flute
Pulling and urging me
To taste the forbidden fruit
Though I felt naive
I did not want to leave
Fever was in the air
All of a sudden
I didn't care
No reason why
I just had to testify
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
(What makes you feel?)
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
(Oh, baby)
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
(Do it, baby)
(Do it, do it)
Stuff like that
(Do it, do it)
Stuff like that
(Do it, do it)
Do it, do it, stuff like that
(Do it, do it)
Do it, stuff like that
I knew I was captured
By the rhythm of the magic flute
Pulling and urging me
To taste the forbidden fruit
Though I felt naive
I didn't want to leave
Fever was in the air
All of a sudden
I didn't care
No reason why
I just had to testify
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
(I ain't figured it out yet)
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
(Come on)
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
(I don't know, but it's got me moving, now)
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
I can't tell you what I saw
But it makes you wonder if it's the law
Wasn't my heart
But you know it cut it like that
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
(What makes you feel?)
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
All of a sudden
I didn't care
No reason why
I just had to testify
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
(I don't know, but it makes you feel good)
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
(Do it, do it)
Watch out, now
(Stuff like that)
Can you come a little stronger?
(Do it, do it)
Stuff like that, that's the good stuff, come on
(Do it, do it)
Makes you, hey, makes you move
(Do it, do it)
Stuff, stuff gonna get to me
(Stuff like that)
(What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?)
I ain't figured it out, but it sure tastes good
(What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?)