Songoftheday 5/12/18 - Like children rarely seen and never heard, emotion bare your soul you'll never learn...
from the album Another Minute (originally 1990, re-released 1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #38 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 2
Today's song of the day comes from the new wave duo Cause & Effect, who hailed from Sacramento, California. Led by singer Rob Rowe, who was a dead ringer for Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan, and Sean Rowley, they released their self-title indie debut album in 1990, and the first single from the record, "What Do You See?", reached #8 on Billboard's Dance Club Play chart. While the record got local buzz, it didn't have the promotion to go anywhere. That changed when they were bought up by RCA spinoff Zoo Entertainment, who re-released the album with some mixing help. It included a song that also hit the top ten on the dance chart, the frenetic dance-pop of "You Think You Know Her". Originally reaching #9 on the Club Play chart in 1991, with a new remix, was promoted nationally to radio, and finally stations caught on...
"You Think You Know Her" became Cause & Effect's first and only top-40 pop hit in May of 1992. A third single from their album, the title track "Another Minute", climbed to #75 on the pop chart and #31 on the Dance Club Play list. However, by the end of the year, Rowley died suddenly from an asthma attack, leaving Rowe to initially drop the act, but reconsidering and carrying on with new members Keith Milo and Richard Shepherd. The trio's next album, Trip, arrived in 1994, giving them their first rock radio hit with "It's Over Now" (#12 Modern Rock), which also got to #40 on the Dance chart. After Zoo Records folded, they re-emerged with their Innermost Station in 1997, losing Shepherd in its making. Six years later, Rowe and Milo scored their most recent club hit, "Into The Light" (#20). The duo's most recent work, Artificial Construct, was put out in two EPs in 2010 and 2011.
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Here's the original single version from 1990...
...and the 1992 radio hit remix by Tony Garcia....
Finally, here's Rowe performing on a New Years TV program after the death of Rowley...
Up tomorrow: Prog-pop hitmakers' vital organ needs special handling.
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