Songoftheday 8/27/17 - Nothin' comes from dreamers but dreams, sittin' at night all in our bowl while everyone else is down the street...
from the albums Graffiti Bridge (Original Soundtrack) (1990) and T.E.V.I.N. (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #12 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 13
Today's song comes from R&B singer Tevin Campbell, who had grown up singing gospel in Texas before getting his big break with legendary producer Quincy Jones. Jones enlisted Campbell to sing a track on his 1989 album Back To The Block, and the result, "Tomorrow (A Better You, A Better Me)", gave Tevin a #1 R&B hit at the young age of 13 (it also crossed over to the pop chart at #75). The following year, Tevin appeared in Prince's movie Graffiti Bridge, and recorded a song for the soundtrack. That track, "Round and Round", was written and produced by Prince, his first major foray into the "new jack swing" movement. Released as a single, it was the second big hit from the film (after Prince's own "Thieves In The Temple") and first solo success...
"Round and Round" became Tevin's first top-40 pop hit in April of 1991. The song also spent a week at #3 on Billboard's R&B chart. Internationally, the record went to #14 in New Zealand. It would be nominated for a Grammy Award for R&B Male Vocal, which went that year to Luther Vandross' "Here And Now".
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Here's Tevin with an absolutely electric performance on the Arsenio Hall show to promote the single. It's actually triple the awesomeness of the recorded version...
Up tomorrow: Soul/pop singer wants it close.
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