Songoftheday 1/30/18 - Mama always used to say good things come to those who wait, just give it time...
from the album Nia Peeples (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #12 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10
Today's song of the day comes from actress and dance-pop singer Nia Peeples, who had landed her first top-40 hit in America in the summer of 1988 with "Trouble". Two more singles from her debut album Nothin' But Trouble also reached the dance chart, with "High Time" going to #10 and "I Know How (To Make You Love Me)" hitting #28. (That latter song is quite a forgotten jam.) She also starred in films like North Shore, and hosted television shows like the Party Machine and the American version of the British chart standard Top of the Pops. In 1991, Nia released her eponymous sophomore record, and from it the lite new-jack-swing single "Street Of Dreams". Written and produced by Evan Rogers and Carl Sturken (whose own band Rythm Syndicate were on the chart at the time with "Hey Donna"), it would become her greatest success...
"Street of Dreams" became Nia's second and final top-40 pop hit in November of 1991. The song also climbed to #73 on Billboard's R&B chart (her last showing there). Internationally, the record was a top-40 hit in Canada at #23, and was a minor success in Australia at #74.
A second single, "Kissing The Wind", made it to #76 on the pop chart in both the US and the UK. That was followed by "Faces Of Love", which features Shalamar singer Howard Hewett, which climbed to #88 in America and #59 in Britain, but it was her first to reach Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart at #33.
Since then she has been more visible in acting, with stints on The Young and the Restless soap opera and Pretty Little Liars.
Here's Nia on a European TV appearance to promote the single...
And finally, even though it failed to reach the dance chart, the CD single had remixes done from Shep Pettibone - here's the 12" club version...
Up tomorrow: British ravers tell some untruths.
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