Songoftheday 9/27/17 - Am I What you're missing? The kind of guy who gives you a dozen roses everyday...
from the album Ralph Tresvant (1990)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #34 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 3
Today's song of the day comes from New Edition member Ralph Tresvant, who during the vocal group's hiatus at the end of the 1980s pursued a solo side-career. The first single from his first solo album, "Sensitivity", became a top-5 pop hit in the winter of 1991. His follow-up would reunited Ralph with Bobby Brown, who had left New Edition back in 1984. "Stone Cold Gentleman", written by L.A. Reid, Daryl Simmons, and Kayo Roberson, was a lite new jack swing number not unlike L.A.'s partner Babyface's "Tender Lover"...
"Stone Cold Gentleman" became Ralph's second and so far last top-40 pop hit in April of 1991. The song climbed all the way to #3 on Billboard's R&B chart. Internationally, the record made the top-40 in New Zealand (#25), and was a minor hit in the UK (#78) and Australia (#83). A third single from Ralph Tresvant, the soft break-up ballad "Do What I Gotta Do", went all the way to #2 on the R&B chart, but missed the pop Hot 100 altogether. That was followed by "Rated R", which peaked at #69 on the R&B list. In 1992, Tresvant contributed the song "Money Can't Buy You Love" to the soundtrack to the Damon Wayans movie Mo' Money, and the track went to #2 R&B and #54 pop. Two years later, he released his second solo effort, It's Goin' Down, but only the lead single, "Who's The Mack?", got to the R&B top-40 at #35. He rejoined New Edition soon after, who he has performed with ever since, though he put out an indie album in 2006 and is scheduled for another next year.
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Here's Ralph and Bobby appearing on the Arsenio Hall show to promote the single...
Midwestern pop singer is banking on romance.
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