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"The Way I Feel About You" - Karyn White
from the album Ritual Of Love (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #12 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 13

Today's song of the day comes from Karyn White, whose second album Ritual Of Love scored the singer her biggest pop hit with the #1 "Romantic" in the fall of 1991. The second single from the record would be another that reminds me of Rhythm Nation-era Janet Jackson, even though Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (the latter would become her husband in 1992) didn't write or produce like the previous hit. "The Way I Feel About You", produced by Christopher Troy and Zachary Harmon, who wrote the song with Karyn and Bruce Sterling, is a breezy but meaty dance-pop nugget that is like a sequel to Janet's "Alright"...

"The Way I Feel About You" became Karyn's sixth and so far last top-40 pop hit in February of 1992. The single also climbed to #5 on Billboard's R&B chart, and crossed over to #35 on their Adult Contemporary (or "Easy listening") radio format tally. Internationally, the track made it to #13 in Canada, and was a minor hit in the UK (#65) and New Zealand (#47). The third release from Ritual Of Love, the new jack swing-ish track "Walkin' The Dog", climbed to #34 on the R&B list, followed by the ballad "Do Unto Me", which peaked at #24, but neither reached the pop Hot 100.

In 1994, Karyn released her third and final album for Warner Brothers, Make Him Do Right. Lead single "Hungah" hit the top ten on the Dance Club Play chart at #10, and peaked at #18 on the R&B list, but stalled down at #78 on the American pop Hot 100. Then came the ballad "Can I Stay With You", which returned her to the R&B top ten at #10, but only made it to #81 on the pop list. Lastly, another slow track, "I'd Rather Be Alone", bubbled under the Hot 100 while going to #50 on R&B.

She retired for a while to start a family, but returned in 2012 with the independently-released Carpe Diem album. The title track "Carpe Diem (Seize The Day)" climbed to #27 on the Adult R&B radio format chart.

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Here's Karyn appearing on Soul Train to promote the single...

Up tomorrow: Dance-pop newcomer wants to be saturated in romance...