Billboard Top 40 Hits 1971: #181: ‘You’ve Got To Crawl [Before You Can Walk]’- The 8th Day. September 18, 1971.
- Single: ‘ You’ve Got To Crawl [Before You Can Walk]- The 8th Day.
- Record Company- Invictus
- Genre: R&B
- Written by Angelo Bond, General Johnson and Greg Perry
- Time: 2:40
- B-side:’It’s Instrumental To Be Free’
- Album- The 8th Day
- Grade: B+
- Peaked at #28 11 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.
The 8th Day- were an R&B group out of Detroit City. They had 3 Hot 100 singles from 1971-72 with 2 cracking the Top 40. Their biggest hit was a #11 ‘She’s Not Just Another Woman’ 1971.
Want that record!
Probably did quite well on the R&B stations in Chicago, but WLS and WCFL didn’t play it, at least not that I remember. Too bad: it’s a great song…