Songoftheday 12/4/17 - Wish on a rainbow is all I can do, dream of the good times that we never knew...
from the album Move To This (1990)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #8 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 13
Today's song of the day comes from pop/dance singer/songwriter Cathy Dennis, whose debut album Move To This had already landed her a trio of top ten pop hits in the U.S. with "Touch Me (All Night Long)", "Just Another Dream", and her collaboration with D-Mob, "C'mon and Get My Love". The fourth single from the album would slow the pace quite a bit, for the ballad "Too Many Walls". Written by Dennis with Anne Dudley, the electronica orchestral goddess who was a member of the Art Of Noise, the song is a lyrically obtuse reflection on a stormy relationship, it gave her props that she can write and perform more than dancefloor fodder...
"Too Many Walls" became Cathy's fourth (and so-far final) top ten pop hit as a singer in the U.S. in September of 1991. The single was her biggest success on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") format chart, spending two weeks at #1. Internationally, the record reached the top-40 in Canada (#10), Ireland (#17), and her native UK (#17).
A fifth single from the album, the light dance-pop track "Everybody Move", stopped at #90 on the American pop chart, but did manage to reach the top-40 in Britain (#25) and the Netherlands (#38), while the remixes made it to #25 on the U.S. Dance Club Play chart.
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Here's Cathy making a TV appearance in 1991 to promote the single...
Up tomorrow: Dance duo and their ensemble do some pondering.
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