Songoftheday 6/25/18 - When you trust someone and you know you're on their back, you ain't got no trusting about you...
from the album Bobby (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #3 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 17
Today's song of the day comes from R&B singer Bobby Brown, whose second solo album after leaving New Edition, Don't Be Cruel, spun off five top ten pop hits with "Rock Witcha", "Every Little Step", "Don't Be Cruel", "Roni", and the #1 "My Prerogative". He also went to #2 with his theme from the second Ghostbusters movie, "On My Own". After a mysteriously shelved second album and a collaboration with teen "good kid" Glenn Medeiros that resulted in a left-field #1 pop hit in "She Ain't Worth It", Brown returned in the summer of 1992 with the first single from his upcoming Bobby album. At that point, he had just married Whitney Houston, and his bad boy image had already raised a few eyebrows about the relationship. Brown came out of the gate, then, with the defiant "Humpin' Around", written by Brown with producers "Babyface" Edmonds, LA Reid, and Daryl Simmons, along with Thomas Keyes, and Stylz who provided the single mix rap bridge, Bobby tries his best to convince someone that he's faithful...
"Humpin' Around" returned Brown to the pop top ten, reaching the "show" mark (#3) in October of 1992. The song spent two weeks at #1 on Billboard's R&B chart, while the remixes on the 12" single helped it rise to #15 on their Dance Club Play list. Internationally, the single topped the chart in Australia for a week, and reached the top ten in New Zealand (#2), Sweden (#5), Canada (#6), Austria (#7), Norway (#7), the Netherlands (#8), Portugal (#8), Belgium (#10), and Denmark (#10). In the UK, the original mix of the song peaked at #19 in 1992, then returned in 1995 when it climbed all the way to #8. "Humpin' Around" won Brown a Grammy for Best Male R&B Performance in 1993.
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Bobby performed "Humpin' Around" at the MTV Music Video Awards in 1992...
In 1995, a smooth house remix of the song helped it climb to bigger heights in the UK, peaking at #8...
In Living Colour used "Humpin' Around" to parody Bill Clinton during the election in 1992 with Jim Carrey as Bill..
And finally, from a show in 2009...
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