Songoftheday 6/28/15 - He doesn't love you the way that I love you, 'cause if he did he wouldn't go and break your heart....

"Kiss Him Goodbye" - The Nylons
from the album Happy Together (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #12 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10

Today's SOTD comes from the Nylons, an acappella quartet who came together in the late 70s in Toronto, Canada. With moderate success with jazz and kids music audiences, it wasn't until 1987 that they got their big break in America, covering a song that went to #1 in 1969. "Kiss Him Goodbye". Released under the act Steam, songwriters Paul Leka, Gary Decarlo, and Dale Frashuer were the true "one-hit-wonders" of the year with a song originally meant as a toss-off B-side....

Fast forward to the early 80s, when the song was still in peoples minds, especially after Bananarama's 1983 cover of the song made the top-5 on the British chart and #17 on the American dance chart (it came one notch away from making the US Hot 100)...

But it was The Nylons that brought the song back to the charts with their doo-wop revival....

The Nylons' cover of "Kiss Him Goodbye" reached the American top-20 in August of 1987, while scaling to #10 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary radio chart. They would follow it up with another cover from the late sixties, "Happy Together", that went to #75 pop and #16 Adult Contemporary. They wouldn't return to the American pop chart since, but continue to perform as an act, though sadly three of the four members that recorded "Kiss Him Goodbye" have since died, with tenor Marc Connors succumbing to AIDS in 1992, and lead singer Paul Cooper and Denis Simpson passing away in the 2010's, leaving only Claude Morrison who still tours with a new lineup.

Up tomorrow: Cuban-American collective warn that percussion is coming.