Songoftheday 5/22/18 - One chance intervention see what it can signify, the slightest misapprehension baby and we'd have passed each other by...

"Not The Only One" - Bonnie Raitt
from the album Luck Of The Draw (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #34 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 4

Today's song of the day comes from blues-rock master Bonnie Raitt, whose Grammy-nominated album Luck Of The Draw had scored two big pop hits with "I Can't Make You Love Me" and the top-5 "Something To Talk About". Also, album track "Slow Ride" made it to #28 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart. The third physical single from the record was the midtempo adult rock of "Not The Only One". Written by Northern Irish songwriter Paul Brady, and produced by Raitt with Don Was, the song sounded like a worthy sequel to Fleetwood Mac's "Gypsy" as Bonnie finds love at the point where she's just about given up. Her husband Michael O'Keefe again makes an appearance in the music video; see if you can also catch the obviously same-sex couple briefly in the beginning as well...

"Not The Only One" became the third top-40 pop hit from Luck Of The Draw in June of 1992. The song was the most popular of the tracks from the album on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") format chart, spending a week at #2. Internationally, the single peaked at #13 in Canada. Another album track, "Come To Me", followed it quickly up the Adult Contemporary chart landing at #10 (and #36 in Canada). The final physical single from the set, "All At Once", climbed to #17 on the AC list. At the 1992 Grammy Awards, besides "Something To Talk About"'s win, Raitt grabbed two more awards, with "Good Man, Good Woman" with Delbert McClinton winning Best Rock Duo/Group Performance, and title track "Luck Of The Draw" nabbing the Female Rock Solo Performance trophy.

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Here's audio of Bonnie in concert in 2009...

and finally, another audio of the track's songwriter Paul Brady with Raitt from 2015...

Up tomorrow: Life is deceivingly ordinary for this protege of Gloria.