Songs I Want to Share: "Crush on You" by The Jets

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It's Flashback Friday on the hits station, and "Crush on You" by the Jets came on. What a song! I love the bump up to falsetto for the chorus, very precarious, about to fall off key but never quite does.

― Mark, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Other Jets songs to look out for?

― Mark, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is this the 1960s British band the Jets, or the other Jets, who until recently I'd never heard of, but were apparently more famous?

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Most of the other Jets songs I remember are slow and sappy, but "Crush on You" is undeniably great.

― Nicole, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Their first album is EXCELLENT! Almost all of their singles are fantastic; search out "Curiosity", "You Got It All", "Cross My Broken Heart" and "Make It Real". ESPECIALLY "Curiosity"; it's like the lost Nu Shooz single.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not the 60s band; this is an 80s outfit.

― Mark, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"You Got It All", "Cross My Broken Heart" and "Make It Real" = sappy

― Nicole, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Cross My Broken Heart" is uptempo, though. It's hard to be sappy when you're shakin' what your mama gave ya.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh... this is the one Aaron Carter covered, yes?

― Mr Swygart, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nicole, that's what makes them GOOOD!

"Make It Real", in particular, slays me.

― Daver, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thing is, I remember "You Got It All," but I can't remember *anything* else by them. And this was when I was heavily immersed in Top 40 and their songs were on all the time. Strange.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How did you know
Cuz I never told
You found out
I Got a CRUSH ON YOU
No masquerade
My heart's been displayed
You found out
I got a CRUSH ON YOU

You must have heard it
From my best friend
She's always talkin'
When she should be listenin'
Can't keep a secret
To save her life
But still I trusted her
With all I felt inside
I never knew
A rumor could spread so fast
But the way you moved
Was so self-assured
You knew I would surrender!

(Go go gadget trivia!)

― Dan Perry, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember liking that one way back when. I never heard anything else by them, I think it's their only song that got 'big' in the UK. The only things I think know is that they were one of those ridiculous 20-piece badnds, and were all Mormons.

― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 9 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

TS: The Jets vs. The Angry Samoans?

― Kris, Sunday, 9 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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