Count Me Out (song)

"Count Me Out"
Single by New Edition
from the album All for Love
B-side	"Good Boys"
Released	October 14, 1985
Format	Cassette single, CD single, Vinyl single
Recorded	1985
Genre	R&B/Pop
Length	4:09 (radio edit) 5:37 (album version) 6:25 (Instrumental) 6:25 (A Cappella)
Label	MCA
Writer(s)	Vincent Brantley, Rick Timas
Producer	Vincent Brantley, Rick Timas
Certification	—
New Edition singles chronology
"Kind of Girls We Like" (1985) "Count Me Out" (1985) "A Little Bit of Love (Is All It Takes)" (1986)

"Count Me Out" is a dance-pop/R&B song released as a single by R&B/pop group New Edition from their All for Love album, released in September 1985 on the MCA label.

Much like the group's earliest single, "Cool It Now", again, lead singer Ralph Tresvant is warned by his friends (co-members Bobby Brown, Ronnie DeVoe, Ricky Bell and Michael Bivins) to not fall for a girl after he told them to "count him out" of any activities that they had planned to do much to his friends' dismay.

The song's music video was notable for Brown's absence as he had broken from the group around the time of the video. Only Tresvant, DeVoe, Bell and Bivins were in the video and parts of the song that belonged to Brown were sung by Bell. Despite a modest showing at number fifty-one on the pop singles chart, the song reached number two on the Billboard R&B singles chart.

Personnel

• Ronnie DeVoe background vocals
• Bobby Brown lead vocals & background vocals
• Ricky Bell background vocals
• Michael Bivins background vocals
• Ralph Tresvant lead vocals & background vocals