Songoftheday 11/14/17 - Don't be afraid oh my love, I'll be watching you from above...
from the album Dollars & Sex (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #8 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 14
Today's song of the day comes from the British new wave band the Escape Club, whose second album Wild Wild West had landed them a #1 pop hit in America with the title track "Wild Wild West" and a top-40 follow-up with "Shake For The Sheik". In 1991 the four-piece released their third effort, Dollars & Sex. The first single from the set, "Call It Poison", was pretty catchy, but it stalled right under the top-40 at #44. However, they struck (literal) gold (records) with the left-turn second release, "I'll Be There". A soft, passive ballad written by the group (lead singer Trevor Steel, guitarist John Holliday, bass player Johnny Christo, and drummer Milan Zekavica) and produced by Peter Wolf (not the guy from the J. Geils Band, but the one that produced Starship and Heart), the love song became their last big hurrah...
"I'll Be There" became the Escape Club's second and final top ten pop hit in August of 1991. The song climbed to #27 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart. After failing to have any further success from the record, the band split by the next year. In 2005, they released an independently promoted album, Cloud 10, and four years later Steel and Holliday got together for their most recent set Celebrity.
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Here's the band performing live in 2012...
Up tomorrow: Swedish duo have some dying posies.
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