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"Sign Your Name"
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Single by Terence Trent D'Arby
from the album Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby
B-side"Greasy Chicken"
ReleasedDecember 28, 1987 (1987-12-28)
GenreSoul
Length4:37
LabelColumbia
SongwriterTerence Trent D'Arby
ProducersMartyn Ware, Terence Trent D'Arby, Howard Gray
Terence Trent D'Arby singles chronology
"Dance Little Sister"
(1987) 		"Sign Your Name"
(1987) 		"Rain"
(1988)
Music video
"Sign Your Name" on YouTube
Professional ratings
Review scores
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"Sign Your Name" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Terence Trent D'Arby (now known as Sananda Maitreya), released as the fourth single (third in the US) from his debut album, Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby (1987). The song was an international success, reaching number one on the Irish Singles Chart, number two on the UK Singles Chart, and number four on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was remixed by Lee "Scratch" Perry for some European releases. The music video was directed by Vaughan Arnell and was premiered in January 1988.[2] The music video features model Kelly Brennan.[3]

Critical reception

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Max Bell from Number One noted that the song finds D'Arby "in his quiet, sensitive, loving disguise, as opposed to his crafty, naughty, whoopsadaisy ma'am alter ego." He also felt that "Sign Your Name" "testifies at least to a knowledge of soul", and concluded, "From a Heaven 17 influenced beginning a fair single starts to brood but this could be a sucker punch rather than a knockout."[1] Roger Morton from Record Mirror commented, "'Bop shoo wop wop/Bop shoo wap wap'. Terence has joined Showaddywaddy? Sadly not. This is the fourth single from the Hardline album, a crooner not a rasper, with some fine quavering from Tel's tonsils and a rhythm closely related to that of Scritti Politti's 'The Sweetest Girl'."[4] Another editor, James Hamilton, wrote in his dance column, "Moodily shuffling sad 109/54+1⁄2-0bpm lament, not really for floors".[5]

Track listings

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  • 7-inch single
  1. "Sign Your Name" – 4:45
  2. "Greasy Chicken" – 4:40

Charts

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Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[38] Silver 200,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

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Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
United Kingdom December 28, 1987
  • 7-inchy vinyl
  • 12-inch vinyl
 CBS [39]
January 11, 1988 CD [40]
Japan June 22, 1988 Mini-CD Epic [41]

Sheryl Crow version

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"Sign Your Name"
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Single by Sheryl Crow
from the album 100 Miles from Memphis
ReleasedSeptember 15, 2010
Length5:38
LabelA&M
SongwriterTerence Trent D'Arby
ProducersSheryl Crow, Doyle Bramhall II, Justin Stanley
Sheryl Crow singles chronology
"Summer Day"
(2010) 		"Sign Your Name"
(2010) 		"Coal Miner's Daughter"
(2010)
Music video
"Sheryl Crow - Sign Your Name (Official Music Video)" on YouTube

Sheryl Crow released her rendition of the song in 2010 as the second single from her eighth studio album, 100 Miles from Memphis. It features Justin Timberlake on background vocals.[42] The music video, directed by Wayne Isham, was released on September 16, 2010, through Crow's VEVO account.[43]

Charts

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Chart (2010) Peak
position
US Adult Alternative Airplay (Billboard)[44] 18

References

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  43. ^ Sign Your Name Music Video Interscope Retrieved October 14, 2010
  44. ^ "Sheryl Crow Chart History (Adult Alternative Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved April 25, 2025.

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