Talk:You Got the Right One, Baby/Archives/2012

Prince did NOT write this song
This forum post from 1999: http://prince.org/msg/5001/551 refers to an article on MSNBC's website: http://msnbc.com/news/283136.asp

Diet Pepsi had been changing its somewhat limp advertising slogans frequently. "The right one" was conceived in 1989, but William Katz, now BBDO president and then head of the Pepsi account, said it "felt a bit stilted and marketingese." Creative director Alfred Merrin and jingle writer Peter Cofield tried to tailor "the right one" to Charles' jivey delivery and threw in "baby." They had two syllables left over for the Raylettes: Merrin said they played with the idea of doo-woo but ultimately went to uh-huh, "a two syllable grunt that embodies affirmativess."

Within a week, the spot had achieved cult status as people latched onto the new jingle. The "uh-huh" catch phrase popped up on the top-rated "Cosby Show" and George Bush used it in a famous debate to deride Michael Dukakis. Pepsi began selling out its proffered assortment of T-shirts, hats, jackets, night shirts, and boxer shorts emblazoned with the "you got the right one" jingle and even tried to make April "National Uh Huh Month." And the company filled supermarkets with life-sized cutouts of Charles and the Raylettes and let customers record their own version of the jingle at promotional karaoke booths.

Prince later wrote a song that sampled a bit of the commercial, but he did NOT write the song

78.23.67.187 (talk) 18:32, 24 February 2010 (UTC) B

Prince did write this song ?
In the article (http://prince.org/msg/5001/551) it states :

"His song" refers to a bootlegged Prince track that uses the "Uh Huh" jingle as its chorus.

This is a bit off, the chorus are indeed the same, but besides that the music is identical as is the whole intro. see below. After the intro the text is indeed different, because the text of Ray Charles is altered to fit the commercial.

Intro text Ray Carles : You know when it's right. You know when you feel it baby. You hold it, you hear it. You taste it it's right.

Intro text Prince : You know when it's right. You know when you feel it baby. You hold it, you hear it. You thought it it's right.

So stating Prince uses the Uh Huh of the song. Is just a bit off. If He did not write the song, he did a full cover. And a specially in that time Prince never covered anything apart from some performances on stage in a after concert.

And for as far as the stated date of the outtake of Prince (1991). You tend to think his version is newer, so therefore not the original. But if you take a song like ‘Nothing compares 2 U’ recorded by Sinead O’Conner in 1989. Where Prince recorded the song in 1992/1993. Are we then suggesting that Prince did not write that song. Or like Uh Huh, he just gave the song to someone else to sing it, before he recorded it him self.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.27.228.186 (talk) 09:55, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Speculation. No reliable source says Prince wrote it.    68.13.247.167 (talk) 03:44, 18 October 2012 (UTC)