Songoftheday 2/6/18 - You know just how to hurt me and how to take all the pain away, girl you must be the devil in disguise...

"Keep Coming Back" - Richard Marx
from the album Rush Street (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #12 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 13

Today's song of the day comes from pop singer/songwriter Richard Marx, whose sophomore effort Repeat Offender had landed five songs in the American Top-40: "Children Of The Night", "Too Late For Goodbyes", "Angelia", and two #1 hits in "Satisfied" and "Right Here Waiting". In 1991, Marx released his third album Rush Street, which was much more diverse and willing to take artistic chances. It had elements of country, jazz and soul in the set, the last two evident in the lead single "Keep Coming Back". A slow, brooding track about not being able to shake off an addiction to a bad love, it featured Luther Vandross on backup vocals, on a base of keyboards from Greg Phillinganes that set the mood of what would be my favorite single of his...

"Keep Coming Back" became Marx's tenth top-20 pop hit in December of 1991. Despite the song not reaching the top ten there, it spent an entire month (four weeks) on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart. And probably because of Luther's involvement, the track even crossed over to their R&B format chart (his sole appearance there) at #71. Internationally, the single spent two weeks at #3 in Canada, and reached the top-40 in Switzerland (#22), New Zealand (#32), Australia (#34), Sweden (#37), and the Netherlands (#40). It was a minor hit in the UK (#55) and Germany (#52).

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The album version of the song stretched out for almost seven delicious minutes...