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"Automatic" is a song by the Pointer Sisters, released on the Planet label in January 1984 as the second single from their multi-platinum landmark album ''Break Out.'' "Automatic" reached the Top 5 of Billboard's pop chart and became one of the Pointers' signature tunes. Eventually, three other singles from ''Break Out'' reached the Top 10 consecutively. ==The Pointer Sisters version== According to Ruth Pointer of the Pointer Sisters, "Automatic" was a late addition to the ''Break Out'' album: "We’d almost finished () album and were looking for another tune. We were sitting in a little tiny office on a break and, being the snoops that we are, decided to snoop around this person's office because we knew that he was the one who was hoarding all the material. We heard this song" - the demo for "Automatic" had been recorded by its composers Brock Walsh and Mark Goldenberg - "and went: 'Whoa, this is a really cool song!'" 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Still So Excited: an interview with Ruth Pointer )〕 "We took it to (Richard Perry ) and said 'Why is this not one of the songs we're recording?' He replied 'Well, it sounds like a guy should be doing it. Who is going to sing that part?' Of course, my sisters looked at me immediately and said 'She can do that!'." 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Soul Deep with natural-born singer Ruth Pointer )〕 Although ''Break Out'' largely comprised dance tracks, its lead single was the ballad "I Need You" chosen by producer Richard Perry in hopes of reinforcing the Pointer Sisters presence at R&B radio: the dance track "Jump (for My Love)" was intended as the second single but the heavy airplay afforded "Automatic" as an album cut by both dance clubs and radio stations caused the substitution of "Automatic" for "Jump..." as the second single release from ''Break Out'', although "Jump..." would become the most successful US single off ''Break Out'' when it became the album's third single.〔''Billboard'' vol 96 No. 46 (17 November 1984) p. 78〕 The first Top 40 hit to feature Ruth Pointer's distinctive contralto on lead, "Automatic" reached #5 on the Hot 100 in ''Billboard'' in April 1984, also charting on the magazine's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Dance Club Play rankings, its #2 R&B chart peak making "Automatic" the highest charting R&B hit by the Pointer Sisters as a trio (in their original four-woman format the Pointer Sisters did score an R&B #1 hit with "How Long (Betcha' Got a Chick on the Side)"). In the British Isles "Automatic" would afford the Pointer Sisters their alltime biggest hit spending two weeks at #2 on the UK chart in May 1984 when it also reached #1 in Ireland. "Automatic" also afforded the Pointer Sisters Top Ten success in Belgium (#5 on the Flemish chart), the Netherlands (#9), and New Zealand (#8): in Australia "Automatic" reached a chart peak of #15. The B-side of "Automatic" was "Nightline" featuring June Pointer on lead: "Nightline was also originally feature on ''Break Out'' but was dropped from later pressings of the album to allow for the inclusion of the remix of "I'm So Excited". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Automatic (Pointer Sisters song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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