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"Time and Tide" - Basia
from the album Time and Tide (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #26 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 7

Today's song of the day comes from jazz-pop singer Basia, who was born in Poland where she scuttled around in a few band before moving to London in her late twenties. She became the co-lead singer of the trio Matt Bianco, which had a pair of top-40 hits in the UK with her on board with the #15 "Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed" and "Half A Minute" (#30). She left after the first album, along with keyboardist Danny White, whom she would continue a romantic as well as professional relationship with. Dropping her clunky surname of Trzetrzelewska and recording under just "Basia", she along with White released her first album Time and Tide in 1987. Continuing the breezy lite-jazz pop with a touch of cosmopolitan European flair in her music, and in the UK her single "Promises" was her first minor hit at #48. In America, the song that broke her on mainstream radio was the title track, which sauntered in with a confident tone built around her amazing voice, which was multitracked to back herself up (like on the Matt Bianco records)...

"Time and Tide" became Basia's first top-40 pop hit in the U.S. in October of 1988. The single also crossed over to Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart at #19. Internationally, the record was surprisingly less well-recieved in her adopted home of England, stopping short at #61. The album, nonetheless, was a top-20 hit in France.

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Here's Basia performing the song live in Warsaw, Poland in 1994...

Up tomorrow: A seaside band grabs a Cocktail for a #1 hit.