Robbed Hit of the Week 6/13/16 - Tommy Conwell & the Young Rumblers' "If We Never Meet Again"...

"If We Never Meet Again" - Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers
from the album Rumble (1988)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #48

This week's "robbed hit" comes from the bar-rock band from Philadelphia, Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers, who came together in the mid-80s and released their independent debut album in 1986. With the local success of that, they were picked up by label juggernaut Columbia Records, who put out Rumble two years later, which included re-recorded versions of some of those earlier tracks. One of them, "I'm Not Your Man", went to #1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart, and slipped in at #74 on the pop Hot 100. The second single from the record, "If We Never Meet Again", also did well at that format, reaching #9 on the rock list, but gained much more ground on pop radio...

"If We Never Meet Again" made it to just above the halfway mark on the American pop chart in February of 1989. A year later, the band released their third album Guitar Trouble. From it, "I'm Seventeen" climbed to #15 on the rock chart, and "Let Me Love You Too" hit #21, but pop radio had moved on from the workingman-styled rock to druggy grunge and shoegazing emo by that point. The band still continues to perform, understandably in the tri-state area where they began.

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...and here's the band performing live on MTV...