Robbed hit of the week 11/27/17 - Sandée's "Love Desire"...
from the album Only Time Will Tell (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #49
This week's "robbed hit" comes from the dance music artist Sandée, who was one of the original member of what would become the massive freestyle act Exposé. With the original lineup they had two club hits with the first version of "Point Of No Return" and "Exposed To Love", the former topping the Dance Club Play chart in Billboard for two weeks in 1985. After the trio was dismissed by producer Lewis Martinee, Sandée began a solo career, and in 1987 her single "You're The One" made it to #40 on the Dance Club Play chart. Two years later, she hooked up with the production team of Robert Clivilles and David Cole, the future leaders of the C + C Music Factory. The resulting single, "Notice Me", was a big club hit, reaching #9 on the dance chart and crossing over to #62 on the R&B genre chart in Billboard. However, it took three long years and a variety of producers for her debut album Only Time Will Tell to arrive in 1991. It did along with the new single "Love Desire", which had Sandée depart from freestyle and with writer/producer Ellis Pacheco adopt a sound like the recent goth-chant-dance hit "Sadeness, Pt. 1" by Enigma and the Art Of Noise's "Moments In Love"...
"Love Desire" became her first and biggest pop success, climbing to just above the halfway mark on Billboard's pop Hot 100 chart in July of 1991. The single also crossed over to their R&B chart at #83, while the remixes peaked at #21 on their Dance Club Play chart. It would be her final charting hit. Sadly, Sandee died from a seizre in 2008.
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