Songoftheday 8/6/15 - Tell me why you came here was it just to sit and stare? Won't you come go with me take out some time?

"Jam Tonight" - Freddie Jackson
from the album Just Like The First Time (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #32 (one week)
Weeks in the top-40: 3

(I had broken my hand, so sorry this one's a day late but not a dollar short...)

Today's SOTD comes from soul crooner Freddie Jackson, whose Vandross-esque debut Rock Me Tonight earned him a pair of top-20 pop hits in 1985 with the title track and "You Are My Lady". The following year he released the aptly-named Just Like The First Time, which was an immediate success on R&B radio, with three consecutive #1 singles, but unlike his first album none were able to repeat the success with mainstream pop audiences (the booty-call anthem "Tasty Love" just missed the top-40 by a notch). But with release number five from the set, "Jam Tonight" (wirrten by Jackson with producer Paul Laurence), a change in pace got him notice enough to again pop in at pop radio...

"Jam Tonight" became Freddie's fourth and so-far last pop top-40 hit in August of 1987, while nabbing him his sixth R&B chart-topping song. A year later, his lead-off track from his next disc, "Nice and Slow", was a minor pop hit at #61, his most recent Hot 100 appearance. His fortunes in the 90s were more modest, though he claimed two more #1 R&B singles with "Love Me Down" and "Do It Again". He continues to perform on the oldies circuit.

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Here's Jackson appearing on  Soul Train promoting the single...

...and performing live on tour...