Songoftheday 9/16/19 - Everytime I hold you I begin to understand, everything about you tells me your my man...
from the album Boys On The Side (Original Soundtrack) (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #33
Weeks in the Top-40: 6
Today's song of the day comes from veteran blues-rock artist Bonnie Raitt, who had released her third album of her renaissance period in the spring of 1994 with the top-20 pop hit "Love Sneakin' Up On You". The album Longing In Their Hearts also won a Grammy Award for Pop Vocal Album and was nominated for Album of the Year. The following year, Bonnie recorded a song for the mostly female-packed soundtrack to the movie Boys On The Side, which starred Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Barrymore, and Mary-Louise Parker. It would be a remake of the final hit record for rock and roll legend Roy Orbison, who passed away just before "You Got It" became a top ten hit in the spring of 1989...
Raitt's version doesn't stray far from Roy's, with the same guitar-based easy-listening arrangement meant for adult pop radio...
Bonnie's take on "You Got It" became her fifth and most recent top-40 pop hit in March of 1995. The song also climbed all the way to #6 on Billboard magazine's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart. Internationally, the single peaked at #11 in Canada, while in the UK it spent a solitary week at #89. At the Grammy Awards in 1996, Bonnie got another nomination this time for Pop Female Vocal Performance, which went to Annie Lennox for her cover of "No More I Love You's".
During this break in studio albums between Longing In Their Hearts and 1998's Fundamental, she ended her production partnership with Don Was with the live double album Road Tested. The concert set included an original of Bryan Adams', "Rock Steady", which went to #73 on the pop Hot 100 and #30 on the Adult Contemporary radio chart in Billboard. In Canada, the live single did much better at #17, and in the UK it peaked at #50. The album was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Album, losing to Sheryl Crow's self-titled sophomore record.
Bonnie returned to the studio for 1998's Fundamental album, which scored a pair of moderately successful Adult Contemporary hits, like "One Belief Away" (#15 AC). Two year later in 2000 Raitt was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. After that, Bonnie released her Silver Lining piece in 2002, which got three hits on to the Adult Contemproary list, with "I Can't Help You Now" (#15 AC). 2005's Souls Alike got her back on easy listening radio with "I Will Not Be Broken" going to #27 at AC. Her most recent album, Dig In Deep, was a return to the blues that went to #11 on the sales charts.
Up tomorrow: R&B trio are having a lascivious sale perhaps?
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