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''Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em'' is the third album (and second major-label release) by MC Hammer, released on February 12, 1990〔(【引用サイトリンク】MSN Music entry for Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em )〕 by Capitol Records. The album was produced, recorded, and mixed by Felton Pilate and James Earley. The album ranked number one for 21 weeks on the ''Billboard'' 200, due primarily to the success of the single "U Can't Touch This". The song has been and continues to be used in many movies and television shows to date, and appears on soundtrack/compilation albums as well. Likewise, the album saw longevity on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart at number one because it peaked there for 28 weeks.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em )〕 Hammer, being good friends with Arsenio Hall, was invited to first perform "U Can't Touch This" prior to its release, on ''The Arsenio Hall Show'' in late 1989.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=article )〕 He also performed "Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em", a song that didn't make it on this album, but did appear in his movie by the same name. The album singles released all proved to be successful on radio and video television, with "U Can't Touch This", "Pray", "Have You Seen Her", "Here Comes the Hammer" and "Yo!! Sweetness" (UK only) all charting. The album raised rap music to a new level of popularity. It was the first hip-hop album certified diamond by the RIAA for sales of over ten million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=article )〕 It remains one of the genre's all-time best-selling albums.〔 To date, the album has sold as many as 22 million units.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=article )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=article )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=article )〕 ==Album details== Notorious for dissing rappers in his previous recordings, Hammer appropriately titled his third album (and second major-label release) ''Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em'', which was released February 12, 1990.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em )〕 It included the successful single "U Can't Touch This" (which sampled Rick James' 1981 "Super Freak"). It was produced, recorded, and mixed by Felton Pilate and James Earley on a modified tour bus (while on tour) in 1989. Despite heavy airplay and a #27 chart debut, "U Can't Touch This" stopped at #8 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart because it was released only as a twelve-inch single. However, the album was a #1 success for 21 weeks, due primarily to this single, the first time ever for a rap recording on the pop charts. The song has been and continues to be used in many movies and television shows to date, and appears on soundtrack and compilation albums as well. Follow-up successes included "Have You Seen Her" (a cover of the Chi-Lites) and "Pray" (a beat sampled from Prince's "When Doves Cry" and Faith No More's "We Care a Lot"),〔 which was his biggest hit in the US, peaking at #2. "Pray" was also a major UK success, peaking at #8. The album was notable for sampling other high-profile artists and gave some of these artists a new fanbase. "Dancin' Machine" sampled The Jackson 5, "Help the Children" (also the name of an outreach foundation Hammer started) interpolates Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)", and "She's Soft and Wet" also sampled Prince's "Soft and Wet". All of these songs proved to be successful on radio and video television, with "U Can't Touch This," "Pray" (most successful), "Have You Seen Her," "Here Comes the Hammer," and "Yo!! Sweetness" (UK only) all charting. During 1990, Hammer toured extensively in Europe which included a sold-out concert at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. With the sponsorship of PepsiCo International, Pepsi-Cola CEO Christopher A. Sinclair went on tour with him during 1991. By June 1991, the album sold 14.5 million copies worldwide.〔(【引用サイトリンク】The Los Angeles Times">date=1991-06-06 )〕 It would go on to become the first hip-hop album to earn diamond status, selling more than 18 million units to date.〔 The album increased the popularity of hip-hop music. It remains the genre's all-time best-selling album.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=sing365.com )〕 According to Guinness World Records of hit singles, the album cost just $10,000 to produce.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Music Feats )〕 The video for "Here Comes the Hammer" proved to be the most expensive video on this album, Hammer's second most expensive behind "Too Legit to Quit".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=article )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=article )〕 The album's liner notes contains a "Special dedication to the victims of the California Earthquake of 1989 and the victims of Hurricane Hugo". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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