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“I'll Tumble 4 Ya” by Culture Club
From the album Kissing to Be Clever (1982)
“I'll Tumble 4 Ya” by Culture Club appears on 6 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 1983 and 2021. It was first released in 1982 on the album Kissing to Be Clever. Its best result is #16 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1983. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #54 alternative song of 1983 and #3,818 alternative song of all time.
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"I'll Tumble 4 Ya" is Culture Club at their most giddy, a bouncing, sun-struck dance track from their 1982 debut Kissing to Be Clever that finally got its own single in 1983, the fifth and last from the record. All four members wrote it, Boy George sings lead, and Steve Levine produced, then mixed it with Jon Moss.
The credits read like a party: Roy Hay on guitar, piano, keyboards and even electric sitar, Mikey Craig on bass, Moss on drums and percussion, Terry Bailey on trumpet and Nick Payne blowing sax, flute and harmonica. Cash Box singled out the horns. North America got the seven-inch, and it went top 10 in the US, making Culture Club the first band since the Beatles to pull three top-10 singles off a debut album there.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 16 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1983 | 107 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 458 | Q101 | Q101 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (1996) | 500 |
| 1999 | 601 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
| 2002 | 1972 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 646 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
| 2021 | 691 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '80s | 909 |
Also listed as: I'll Tumble For Ya; I'll Tumble 4 ya.
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