DESCRIPTION:
Janice McClain is an American R&B singer, who signed to MCA Records in the 1980s. She scored a chart hit on the US R&B chart with the single "Passion & Pain".

Internationally acclaimed, has travelled around the world as a professional vocalist and songwriter for over twenty years. At the age of 15, McClain was signed to Warner Bros. Records, which yielded a disco hit single entitled "Smack Dab in The Middle", that reached number 2 in the Billboard Club Play chart.

She is a native Philadelphian, who attended the High School for Creative and Performing Arts. Later on McClain went to Atlantic City to audition for a spot at Trump Plaza, and she was hired along with her band, Tapestry. Patti Labelle became her mentor, and arranged a recording contract for McClain with MCA Records. McClain has opened for the Commodores and James Brown.

McClain has since been a backing vocalist for Denise Williams, Hall and Oates, George Clinton and Linda Ronstadt. As the newest member of the Philly Party Band, McClain is one of the four lead vocalists.

When you're hot, you're hot
When you're not, you're not
You've got to give a little
To gain a lot
Boy I'm gonna give you all I've got
When you pick and choose
Sometimes you loose
But I choose you boy anyhow
Nothing's gonna stop me now

(So steep)
But I can go over it
(So wide)
But I'm gonna get around it
(Too deep)
Hey I can get under it
(Too high)
So high

Smack dab in the middle of loving you
Baby, baby, baby, baby

Run and hide when love is on my side
I give an inch boy to gain a mile
Loving you is so worth while

Playing hide and seek
Till your heart get's week
One, two, three, tag on you
No matter where you hide
I'm gonna get your

(So steep)
But I can go over it
(So wide)
But I'm gonna get around it
(Too deep)
Hey I can get under it
(Too high)
So high now boy

Smack dab in the middle of loving you
It's what I wanna do, it's what I wanna do

Hey well I can't get over it
But I'm gonna get around it
Hey I can get under it
So high

Smack dab in the middle of loving you

Can't get away, can't get away boy
You can't get away, you can't get away boy

You can run, you can hide
I've got love on my side
You can pick, you can choose
Sometimes you're about to loose

Give it up, give it up, give it on up
Is what I wanna do

Hey when you're hot, you're hot
Hey baby when you're not, you're not
You've got to pick and choose
But you're bout to lose
No matter what I'm coming thru the middle
I'm coming thru the middle

Give it up, give it up, give it on up
Smack dab in the middle, in the middle