Songoftheday 5/31/18 - It's hard to realize we said our last goodbyes where could the dream have gone to, now I know there's no way that I can make you stay no matter how I want to...
from the album The Comfort Zone (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #26 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 9
Today's song of the day comes from actress/singer/former Miss America Vanessa Williams, whose second album The Comfort Zone had already scored her a pair of top-40 pop hits with "Running Back To You" and her #1 benchmark single "Save The Best For Last". (She also had a big R&B single with "The Comfort Zone" as well.) The fourth release from the record was another ballad, this time the lush "Just For Tonight". Written by producer Keith Thomas with veteran Cynthia Weil, the song has Williams asking for one more roll in the hay before they call it quits...
"Just For Tonight" became the third top-40 pop hit from The Comfort Zone in July of 1992. The song spent a week at #2 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart, and stopped right under the top ten at #11 on their R&B genre tally. Internationally, the single made it to #10 in Canada.
A fifth and final single from the album was a cover of the Isley Brothers by way of the Average White Band's proto-disco nugget "Work To Do". A funky reading that in my mind even surpasses the original, it climbed to #3 for a week on the R&B chart (helped by a remix featuring rap duo Black Sheep), and reached #8 on the Dance Club Play list, while on the pop Hot 100 is stalled right under the halfway mark at #52.
Up tomorrow: British popster has an overabundance of groove.
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