Songoftheday 1/4/18 - I remember moments looking in your eyes, could have sworn I saw the spark of love babe flickering inside...
From the album The Fire Inside (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #24 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 5
Today's song of the day comes from the classic rock band from Detroit Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, whose leader had landed his first and only #1 pop hit in the summer of 1987 with "Shakedown" from the movie Beverly Hills Cop II. He also had a minor rock radio hit with a cover of Fats Domino's "Blue Monday" from the movie Road House in 1989 (#40). It wouldn't be until 1991, five years after the release of their last album American Storm, that Seger and the band put out their sixth album together, The Fire Inside. The first single from the record, "The Real Love", was a soft and easy rock ballad that was written by Seger...
"The Real Love" became Seger's nineteenth and so far most recent top-40 pop hit in October of 1991. The single also climbed to #4 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock as well as their Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio format charts. Internationally, the record spent two weeks at #1 in Canada, and was a minor hit in Germany at #51. Two other tracks from The Fire Inside reached the top ten on the Mainstream Rock chart: the title track (#6) and "Take A Chance" (#10), with the former sneaking on to the AC list at #45.
Another four years would pass before the release of Seger's sixth and so-far last album with the Silver Bullet Band, It's A Mystery. The record scored a couple of minor rock hits, with "Lock And Load" hitting #22 on that tally in 1996, but nothing reached the pop Hot 100. In 1998, Bob's duet with country singer Martina McBride on the love ballad "Chances Are", from the movie Hope Floats, was a moderate Adult Contemporary success at #23. He would take an extended break from the business for almost a decade, during which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He returned to the scene in 2006 with a solo album, Face The Promise. The lead single from the set, "Wait For Me", climbed to #17 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary radio format chart. His most recent hit on that format, "You Take Me In", climbed to #29 in 2014. Bob release the album I Knew You When in 2017, and reached #25 on the albums chart.
Up tomorrow: A British band with thrice the authenticity.
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