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Personnel
- Linda PerryLinda PerryLinda Perry is an American rock musician, songwriter, and record producer. Once best known as the lead singer and primary songwriter of 4 Non Blondes, Perry has founded two record labels and has become a major songwriter and producer...
- acoustic guitar, electric guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
, vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments... - Roger RochaRoger RochaRoger Rocha is an American songwriter, guitarist and vocalist of italian origin.He is perhaps best known as the guitarist for the group 4 Non Blondes. He is the grandson of the famous abstract expressionist artist, Clyfford Still....
- guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with... - Christa Hillhouse - bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, vocals - Dawn Richardson - drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
Additional personnel
- Shaunna HallShaunna HallShaunna Elizabeth Hall, an American composer and musician, was born July 28, 1963 in Modesto, California to musically inclined parents. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, soaking up the diverse music culture there...
- guitar - Rory Kaplan - mellotronMellotronThe Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin Music Master, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard intended for music...
- Suzie Katayama - celloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
- Louis Metoyer - guitar
- Dave Rickets - keyboardKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
Production
- Producer: David Tickle
- Engineers: Paul Dieter, Mark Hensley, Jesse Kanner, Kent Matcke
- Mixing: David Tickle
- Mastering: Stephen Marcussen
- Project coordinator: Leslie Gerard-Smith
- Design: Eric Altenburger
- Cover illustration: Mark RydenMark Ryden-Early life:Ryden is the son of Barbara and Keith Ryden, born in Medford, Oregon but raised in Southern California. He has two sisters and two brothers, one a fellow artist named Keyth Ryden....
Charts
- Billboard (North America)
Year | Chart | Pos. |
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1993 | Heatseekers | 1 |
The Billboard 200 | 13 | |
Year | Single | Chart | Pos. |
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1993 | "Spaceman" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 39 |
"What's Up?" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 16 | |
"What's Up?" | Modern Rock Tracks | 29 | |
"What's Up?" | The Billboard Hot 100 | 14 | |
"What's Up?" | Top 40 Mainstream | 15 | |