Songoftheday 5/5/16 - Time will never lose memories we choose, choices that we've made for love...

"I Remember Holding You" - Boys Club
from the album Boys Club (1988)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #8 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 12

Today's song of the day comes from the pop duo Boys Club, who came together in the late 80s when Eugene Wolfgramm left his family band the Jets ("You Got It All", "Rocket 2 U"), changed his recording moniker to Gene Hunt, and hooked up with singer Joe Pasquale. They released their self-titled debut (and only) album in 1988, sounding very much like a reincarnation of George Michael and Wham!. Their debut single, "I Remember Holding You", in fact, sounded so much like a Latin-flavored "Careless Whisper" that many were fooled initially believing it was an old Wham! track come back to light, even though it was written by Pasquale, who pulls off a convincing Michael-esque vocal...

"I Remember Holding You" became the Boys Club's first and only pop hit, reaching the top ten on the American pop chart in January of 1989. The song also climbed to #4 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart. A second single from the album, "The Loneliest Heart", slipped on to that latter chart at #39. The pair didn't last for a second album, and Gene returned to the Jets by the end of the decade. But for a "one-hit wonder", this single ages much better than most from the era.


Up tomorrow: A shadow of a saxman.