Songoftheday 5/6/16 - A shadow of a sax man...

"Silhouette" - Kenny G
from the album Silhouette (1988)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #13 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10

Today's song of the day comes from lite-jazz saxophone king Kenny G, who had accomplished the rare feat of crossing over to pop radio, selling millions of records and scoring two big hits in 1987 with the top-5 instrumental "Songbird" as well as the top-20 vocal follow-up "Don't Make Me Wait For Love". A year later, Kenny released his fifth album Silhouettes, and again took a chance releasing the instrumental title track as the first single. Hordes of people (including a lot of women who drew to his new-agey style) came back for it, and radio still was playing along...

"Silhouette" became Kenny's third top-20 pop hit in January of 1989. The song also climbed as high as #2 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary radio chart (matching the success of "Don't Make Me Wait"), and crossed over to their R&B list at #35. The Silhouettes album went top ten and has sold over four million copies.

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...and here's the audio from Kenny's multiplatinum Live album with his performance of "Silhouette"...

Up tomorrow: A young soul ingenue plays doctor.