Hot! Wild! Unrestricted! Crazy Love

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"Hot! Wild! Unrestricted! Crazy Love"
Single by Millie Jackson
from the album An Imitation of Love [1] & Back to the Shit [2]
Released1986 [3]
Genre Electronic, Funk/Soul [3]
Length5:58 (album version) [3]
4:22 (1989 version) [2]
Label Jive Records
Songwriter(s) Millie Jackson, Timmy Allen [3]
Producer(s) Timmy Allen [3]

"Hot! Wild! Unrestricted! Crazy Love" is a 1986 song by Millie Jackson. It was one of three tracks to have appeared on her 1986 album An Imitation of Love and on her 1989 album Back to the Shit .

It made #99 on the UK Singles Chart [4] and achieved a #9 peak on the US Hot Black Singles chart. [5]

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References

  1. "An Imitation of Love". Discogs.
  2. 1 2 "Back to the Shit". Discogs.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Hot! Wild! Unrestricted! Crazy Love". Discogs.
  4. "The Official Charts Company - Hot! Wild! Unrestricted! Crazy Love". The Official Charts Company. 5 May 2013.
  5. "Millie Jackson". Billboard.com.