Garcia also appeared in the video she played herself in the doctor's office, confirming she is pregnant and revealing this to Prince when he walks into the room. The song was released on Mayte Garcia's (Prince's then-wife) 23rd birthday. The track was released as a promotional single in the US a music video was also produced. All versions of the single had "Right Back Here in My Arms" as the B-side. The CD single was released in two formats in the UK, one with a picture sleeve and one with an orange cardboard sleeve that included a picture disc and a mini-poster. Prince had stated that he always wanted to release his own version but his record company, Warner Bros. There are two mixes of the song the 3:17 version released as a single is the one most familiar to listeners, while the 3:48 album version has an instrumental break prior to the song's finale.Īnother version of " Betcha by Golly, Wow!" was released by American musician Prince (his stage name at that time being a symbol with no known pronunciation, see cover art) on his 20th album, Emancipation (1996). The single sold over one million copies globally, earning the band a gold disc The award was presented by the RIAA on April 17, 1972. 2 on the Billboard R&B chart, and reached No. It was the third track from the Stylistics' 1971 debut self-titled album released as a single in 1972, it reached No. One year after Stevens' original version was released, the Stylistics recorded a more successful cover version as an R&B ballad under the name the song is best known, "Betcha by Golly, Wow". The composition later became a hit when it was released by the Philadelphia soul group the Stylistics in 1972 under its better known title, "Betcha by Golly, Wow". Stevens' recording runs two minutes and thirty seconds. " Betcha by Golly, Wow" is a song written by Thom Bell and Linda Creed, originally titled " Keep Growing Strong" and recorded by Connie Stevens under the Bell label in 1970.
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