I Gotcha (Joe Tex song)#Jimmy Barnes version

{{short description|Single by Joe Tex}}

{{Infobox song

| name = I Gotcha

| cover =

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Joe Tex

| album = I Gotcha

| A-side = A Mother's Prayer

| released = December 1971{{cite magazine |title=Top 60 Pop Spotlight |magazine=Billboard |date=December 18, 1971 |page=62 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ng8EAAAAMBAJ&dq=Joe+tex+I+gotcha&pg=PA62}}

| recorded = 1971

| studio = American (Memphis, Tennessee)

| venue =

| genre =

• Soul{{cite web|first= Tom |last= Breihan |title= The Number Ones: Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"|website= Stereogum |date= February 25, 2019 |url= https://www.stereogum.com/2033247/the-number-ones-roberta-flacks-the-first-time-ever-i-saw-your-face/columns/the-number-ones/|quote= Joe Tex’s raw and horny soul stomper “I Gotcha” peaked at #2 behind “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face".|accessdate= June 18, 2023}}{{cite book|title= Precious and Few - Pop Music in the Early '70s|first1=Don|last1=Breithaupt|first2= Jeff|last2= Breithaupt|date= October 15, 1999|chapter= Shafts: Macho Soul|page= 98|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin|isbn=031214704X|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RMPCAwAAQBAJ}}
• funk

| length = 2:18

| label = Dial Records

| writer = Joe Tex

| producer = Buddy Killen

| prev_title = Give the Baby Anything the Baby Wants

| prev_year = 1971

| next_title = A Mother's Prayer

| next_year = 1972

}}

"I Gotcha" is a song by Joe Tex. Originally intended for King Floyd, instead Tex recorded it himself in the late 1960s, but did not release it at that time. He decided to re-record it in late 1971 and released it as the B-side of "A Mother's Prayer", the first single from his 1972 album "I Gotcha". Mostly spoken in the form of an early rap song, with few singing passages, "I Gotcha" has the singer admonishing a woman for playing with his affections: "You never shouldn't have promised if you weren't gonna do it".

Radio DJs ended up playing this B-side song more than the A-side. This would result in Tex having his first major hit in five years as "I Gotcha" eventually peaked at Number 1 on the R&B chart and Number 2 on the Pop chart for two weeks, behind "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack{{cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=574}} and would sell around three million copies. Billboard ranked it as the Number 6 song of 1972.Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1972 In Canada, the song reached Number 22.{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.7724.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Singles - May 13, 1972}} Tex would later re-record "I Gotcha" in a ballad-style for his 1978 album Rub Down.

Like other Tex songs, "I Gotcha" has been sampled in various hip hop and R&B songs over the years.{{according to whom?|date=August 2022}} Liza Minnelli performed the number for her 1972 television concert Liza with a Z. It is also featured on the soundtrack to the 1992 Quentin Tarantino film Reservoir Dogs. A shorter version of the song appears in trailers for Kermit's Swamp Years.