Songoftheday 7/2/18 - Your love's so exciting boy i can't deny it, since you found a place in my heart...

"Give U My Heart" - Babyface featuring Toni Braxton
from the albums Boomerang (Original Soundtrack) (1992) and Toni Braxton (1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #29 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 6

Today's song of the day comes from big producer slash R&B singer Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. Babyface was not only was part of the most successful production teams of the 80s and 90s with working partner L.A. Reid, but was a verified music star in his own right, with his second album Tender Lover spinning off four top-40 pop hits with "It's No Crime", "Tender Lover", "Whip Appeal", and "My Kinda Girl". In the beginning of 1991, he also assisted dance-soul singer Pebbles (then L.A. Reid's wife) as a duet on her #1 R&B/top-20 pop hit "Love Makes Things Happen". Meanwhile, singer Toni Braxton, a preacher's daughter from the suburbs of Baltimore/DC in Maryland, was a part of a soul vocal group with her sisters the Braxtons, who were signed to Arista Records (where Edmonds' LaFace Records was an imprint) and had a minor R&B hit in 1990 with "Good Life" (#79 R&B). Babyface and Reid, seeing Toni's solo potential in the group, used her in recording demos for the upcoming Eddie Murphy film Boomerang, with one of those, "Love Shoulda Brought You Home", ended up hers after Anita Baker passed. Toni also sang on the movie track "Give U My Heart" with Babyface, with him getting top billing at the time as a way to "introduce" her to the public, even though she sings lead position. It was released as the second single from Boomerang's soundtrack, after the massive Boyz II Men hit "End Of The Road"...

"Give U My Heart" became the first top-40 pop hit (and second from Boomerang) in September of 1992. The song spent a week at #2 on Billboard's R&B chart as well. Internationally, the single just missed the top-40 in New Zealand at #41.

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And here's the pair performing live on Arsenio Hall to promote the single...

Up tomorrow: Romance leaves this Scandalous singer wanting.