Dare Me

Here, lead vocalist June Pointer tells a love interest to come closer, touch her, and dare her to make a move. If he does this, she believes the night will end on fire.

The first release from the Pointers Sisters' Contact album, "Dare Me" became a worldwide hit, narrowly missing the Top 10 of the US Hot 100 and also reaching the Top 20 on the UK singles chart and the Top 10 in Australia. In addition, it topped the Billboard Dance chart, the group's only #1 hit on that tally.

The song was written by Nashville songwriters Dave Innis (pianist of the group Restless Heart) and Sam Lorber (who later penned Wynonna's 1992 Country #1 "No One Else on Earth"). Dave Innis told Songfacts that he was a writer at Warner Brothers when he penned the song. He explained: "I was a staff writer at Warner's before I was a band member of Restless Heart. And I had been doing quite a bit of session work in Nashville as a keyboard player, writing with different writers. One thing led to another, and I ended up getting signed over to Warner's as a staff writer. So typically we would look at who's cutting now and what kind of material are they looking for, and we would tailor a song for a particular artist and pitch it. And that song, 'Dare Me,' was picked up by the Pointer Sisters."