Initially, the song received heavy airplay on radio stations in California, particularly Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area, and in Southern states. "I Want to Be Your Man" was added to US urban contemporary radio playlists in September 1987 a commercial single was released the following month. personnel, but he agreed to the move once he learned he would be working with the same R&B promotion department. At first, Roger was hesitant because of his familiarity with the Warner Bros. Label president Lenny Waronker and chairman Mo Ostin wanted to relaunch Warner's sister label Reprise Records, which had been dormant for several years, and they told Roger that "I Want to Be Your Man" would be a "perfect opening act" to bring the label back. However, executives at his label, Warner Brothers, loved the song. Roger disliked "I Want to Be Your Man" when it was completed and thought it served as album filler, at best. It was so good, there was no need to take it out." Release and chart performance Roger recalled her being in the studio one day while he was recording his vocals: "There was a spot in the song where there was a hole and I asked her to do something. Larry Troutman recommended Nicole Cottom, a friend of his daughter, to help sing background vocals. After he finished layering tracks, if he didn't like the result he had to scrap everything and start over. To layer six-part harmonies, he spoke the lyric while playing a melody line then rewound the tape and repeated the process for the harmonizing part while playing together with the previously recorded one. According to Roger, he had never mixed his "human" voice with the talk box before, and recording the vocals was tedious because he could only play one note at a time on the vocoder. "I Want to Be Your Man" is a ballad featuring Roger's vocals filtered through a vocoder. I talked to him about what I was trying to say and one thing led to another.
We sat in the hotel room one day and wrote the song. "Women want us to admit that we don't want to commit." Troutman took the idea and began working on a track similar in style to " Computer Love," a 1986 hit for his band Zapp. "Guys have trouble committing and women want us to commit," he explained to authors Adam White and Fred Bronson. Roger Troutman developed "I Want to Be Your Man" around the theme of romantic commitment. "I Want to Be Your Man" was covered by Charlie Wilson and Fantasia in 2010.
The 2002 single " Down 4 U" by Irv Gotti featuring Ja Rule, Ashanti, Vita, and Charli Baltimore contains interpolations of the song. It has featured in films such as 2000's Love & Basketball and has been sampled by numerous R&B and hip hop artists. Internationally, the song reached number nine in the Netherlands, number 15 in Germany, number 18 in New Zealand, and number 27 in Canada. The song topped the Billboard Hot R&B Singles chart and peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100. "I Want to Be Your Man" features Roger singing in both his natural tenor and his trademark talk box. The song was co-written by Roger's brother, Larry Troutman, and produced by Roger, who conceived of the song as a statement on romantic commitment. It was released as the lead single from the album in September 1987 by Reprise Records.
" I Want to Be Your Man" is a song by American funk singer-songwriter Roger Troutman, from his third studio album Unlimited!. Troutman Recording Studios, Dayton, Ohio, 1986
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