Songoftheday 4/12/18 - Baby let's feel the love that'll last forever and ever and ever, baby baby let's feel the love that never dies this time...
from the album Stacy Earl (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #27 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 8
Today's song of the day comes from dance-pop singer Stacy Earl, who had cracked the American top-40 pop chart for the first time with the lush lite-house ditty "Love Me All Up" in the beginning of 1992. Her second single would pair her with an act who went all the way to #1 though most of us would have forgotten it. "Romeo & Juliet", written and produced by Oliver Lieber, featured "The Wild Pair", two former members of the Prince-adjacent funk band Mazarati (Bruce DeShazer and Marv Gunn) that played and sang on multiple tracks of Paula Abdul's Forever Your Girl album. That included her chart-topping single "Opposites Attract", which they were credited on the charts for (I mean, it's a "duet" even though on the video she's singing with "MC Skat Kat"). On "Romeo & Juliet", which does sound a lot like "Opposites Attract", the Pair are given facetime in the music video (albeit just a smidge at the end) this time as well....
"Romeo & Juliet" became Stacy's (and the Wild Pair's) second and final top-40 pop hit in April of 1992. The single also climbed to #33 up in Canada. A third single from her debut, the ballad "Slowly", stalled down at #52 on the pop Hot 100, but was her most successful song on the Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") format, peaking at #32.
Up tomorrow: Explosive rock band from New Jersey has an abundance of love.
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