Jump   written by   Marti Sharron,   Stephen Mitchell,   Gary Skardina
©2000 gtslade	Anita June Ruth & Bonnie

Your eyes tell me how you want me
Can feel it in your heart beat
I know you like what you see
Hold me, I'll give you all that you need
Wrap your love around me
You're so excited, I can feel you getting hotter, oh baby
I'll take you down, I'll take you down
Where no one's ever gone before
And if you want more, if you want more, more, more then

Chorus
Jump for my love
Jump in and feel my touch
Jump, you want to taste my kisses in the night then
Jump, jump, for my love

Jump, I know my heart can make you happy
Jump in, you know these arms can fill you up
Jump, you want to taste my kisses in the night then
Jump, jump, for my love

You told me, I'm the only woman for you
Nobody does it like I do
Then make a move before you try and go much farther, oh baby
You are the one, you are the one
And heaven waits here at my door
And if you want more, if you want more, more, more then

Chorus

When you are next to me, oh I come alive
Your love burns inside
Feels so right
Come to me if you want me tonight
Jump
Jump in, you want to taste my kisses in the night then
Jump, jump, jump
Jump, you know my heart can make you happy
Jump, you know these arms can fill you up
Jump in, you want to taste my kisses in the night then
Jump, jump, for my love

© 1983 Welbeck Music/Stephen Mitchell Music/Anidraks Music/Porchester Music (ASCAP)

When Break Out was released on vinyl, in 1983, the cuts were:

Jump Automatic Baby Come and Get It I Need You Telegraph Your Love   Easy Persuasion Dance Electric Neutron Dance Nightline Operator

Released on Richard Perry's Planet label, BXL1-4705.

Subsequently, "I'm So Excited," from their previous So Excited! album became a major dance hit, so RCA replaced "Nightline" with "I'm So Excited," boosting the album's sales. Even though a compact disc would easily hold both songs, "Nightline" (available by Randy Crawford on her album of the same name) remains a lost rarity. A 2-CD British set includes both albums, using the original and extended version of "I'm So Excited," omitting "Nightline," too.

That's show biz.  

     

	Disc Treasure Leave it to the Europeans to release the best Pointer Sisters compilation, Retrospect [MCA, 1981; 10, 45:39]. No sooner did I bemoan the absence of their Duke Ellington tribute on an album than I found it on this EU release. There are four additional new-to-CD selections, four from the great Steppin' and "Salt Peanuts" from That's A Plenty. Listening to this album, with one amazing classic after another, it's easy to understand why everyone agrees that the Pointer Sisters are the best female vocal group of the century, maybe even of the millennium. There's the great ballad, "Easy Days," written by the sisters and Isaac Hayes, the funky "Chainey Do." Nine damned dandy songs, plus the amazing medley, one of the slickest six minutes of recording I've ever heard. And I've heard lots of music in fifty years. Fantastic album! But I still wish they would reissue the originals. Okay. They have reissued the first four Pointer Sister albums in Japan. If you can get them ("The Pointer Sisters," "That's A Plenty," "Steppin'" and "Live At The Opera House"), spare no expense. Remember: it's only money.
	Last time I saw them live, June, Anita and Ruth were featured in "Ain't Misbehavin'." I'd seen it years before with Nell Carter and the dynamic Charlayne Woodard. The revival was great, giving the sisters a chance to display their comic and musical talents. June made the Charlayne role her own. Great fun and their best recent album.
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