Songoftheday 5/14/18 - I will be walking one day down a street far away, and see a face in the crowd and smile...
from the album Hearts In Motion (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #20 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 12
Today's song of the day comes from Christian singer turned soft-pop star Amy Grant, whose big foray into secular music, Heart In Motion, had already produced four top ten pop hits with "Good For Me", "That's What Love Is For", "Every Heartbeat", and the #1 "Baby Baby". The fifth and final single sent to pop radio was the mid-tempo ballad "I Will Remember You". Written by Grant with then husband Gary Chapman along with Keith Thomas, the song tells of the loss of a loved one, though it's not totally clear whether by break-up or death, but the memory of the best times...
"I Will Remember You" became Amy's fifth top-40 pop hit from Hearts In Motion in June of 1992. The song also spent two weeks at #2 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart. In Canada, the single did even better, spending a pair of weeks at #9 on their singles chart.
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Here's Amy performing the song in 2012...
Up tomorrow: Another singer gets religious more quietly.
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