Songoftheday 3/24/18 - No direction as you fly through the wind you stop to ponder on a pink chateau, the theme from "Mohogany" still transcends but quote unqoute that's the way it goes...
from the album Of The Heart, of the Soul, and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #28 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 6
Today's song of the day comes from the alternative hip-hop duo P.M. Dawn, who had taken their breakthrough single "Set Adrift On Memory Bliss" all the way to #1 on the American pop chart in the fall of 1991. The follow-up from the Cordes brothers would be the lush rhythmic single "Paper Doll". Written by leader Prince Be (Attell Cordes), it sounds like he's rapping over a Sade' record, but rather its a sample of an obscure jazz-funk record; "Angola, Louisiana" from Gil-Schott Heron and Brian Jackson. Nevertheless, it continued their American success...
"Paper Doll" became the second top-40 hit for P.M. Dawn in America in February of 1992. The song also climbed to #35 on Billboard's R&B chart, while the remixes on the CD single helped it go to #37 on their Dance Club Play list. Internationally, the record reaches the top-40 in Canada (#31) and Switzerland (#33), while peaking just under the mark in Germany (#42), Belgium (#43), France (#45), and the UK (#49).
As an aside, acts like this one make me sad about the seeming forced suicide of anything "non-streaming". To the millenials and the non-physical shut-outs, classic songs like PM Dawn's "Set Adrift On Memory Bliss" they're content with not even existing in its true form (for either rights or legacy issues, the original album or single version is not available on Amazon, iTunes, or even Spotify, forcing you to obtain a shitty version stolen by the brother's band after Prince Be was incapacitated.) Even on Amazon only a live version of "Paper Doll" is offered for sale, let alone streaming.
Up tomorow: Latino rap group are chillin' for the weekend.
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