Songoftheday 3/16/18 - Give me one last look as you walk away, I don't know what to say I start callin' out your name...
from the album Right Here (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #21 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10
Today's song of the day comes from rock singer Eddie Money, who closed out the 1980s, his most successful years, with a greatest hits record including a new top-40 pop hit in "Peace In Our Time" in the winter of 1990. The following year, Eddie recorded his eighth studio album Right Here. The first single from the record, the nostalgic rock of "Heaven In The Back Seat", climbed to #6 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart, but even with Richard "Mutt" Lange (Bryan Adams, Def Leppard, pre-Shania) wrote and produced the track, it stalled out at #58 on their pop Hot 100. That was followed by "She Takes My Breath Away", which did one notch better at #5 on the rock list, but missed the pop chart altogether, even though it was a bit more radio-friendly. For the third try, Eddie brought out his first "power-ballad" single offering, "I'll Get By". Written by Money with Antonina Armato (who wrote Brenda K Starr's "I Still Believe") and Andy Hill, it has Eddie at a much more reflective moment, as he turns in his most emotive vocal performance to date. The music video was dedicated to his longtime producer/promoter Bill Graham, who passed earlier in 1991 and whose picture opens the clip...
"I'll Get By" became Eddie's eleventh and most recent top-40 pop hit in March of 1992. The song climbed to #7 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart, his best showing. In Canada, the single did a little better, peaking at #15. A fourth single, the back-to-basics unplugged sound of "Fall In Love Again", also did well on the Adult Contemporary chart, climbing to #16, and stopping on the American pop Hot 100 at #54 (and #52 in Canada).
Later in 1992, Money released an acoustic set, Unplug It In, which revised some of his earlier songs. A remake of his earlier album track "Save A Little Room In Your Heart For Me" almost reached the pop chart, "bubbling under" at #102. Leaving his longtime home of Columbia Records, he has since released a few independent albums, and continues to tour.
Up tomorrow: the Pharaoh of Pop, perhaps?
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