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"Trouble" - Nia Peeples
from the album Nothin' But Trouble (1988)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #35 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 3

Today's song of the day comes from actress and singer Nia Peeples, who was raised in Hollywood, where she got her first big break with a part on the TV adaptation series of Fame in 1984. Landing a record deal, Nia released her debut album Nothin' But Trouble in 1987. The "title" track, "Trouble", was a bubbly dance-pop number, the kind that Paula Abdul would later make millions with. Written and produced by Steve Harvey, the single let dance stations veer away from the endless stream of freestyle into more funkier territory...

"Trouble" became Nia's first top-40 pop hit in July of 1988, while sneaking in to #71 on Billboard's R&B chart. But it's biggest success was in the clubs, where the extended remix went all the way to #1 on the Dance Club Play chart for a week in April of that year.

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Here's the Shep Pettibone remix (which sounds really like his treatment of Janet Jackson's "Pleasure Principle") that topped the dance chart in the summer of 1988..

And finally, Nia's appearance on Soul Train...

Up tomorrow: Overweight rappers in the house, going back to the sixties...