Songoftheday 8/26/18 - Don't cry baby kiss me and say farewell, nothing's going to break the spell...
from the album Indian Summer (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #14 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 13
Today's song of the day comes from the British pop duo Go West, who had landed the biggest hit of their career in the summer of 1990 when their "King Of Wishful Thinking" from the soundtrack to the Richard Gere/Julia Roberts film Pretty Woman hit the American pop top ten. That song would also eventually find its way onto Peter Cox and Richard Drummie's third studio album Indian Summer two years later. Released in the fall of 1992, it was promoted by the second single from the set, the brassy upbeat pop of "Faithful". Written by the pair with writer Martin Page (co-writer of Starship's "We Built This City"), the track would almost match the success of the previous hit...
"Faithful" became Go West's third and final top-40 pop hit in the U.S. in January of 1993. The song spent two weeks at #3 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart, lasting over eight months on that list. Internationally, the single took a week at #2 in Canada, and reached the top-40 in the UK (#13) and New Zealand (#17), and just missed the mark in Australia (#42).
The next release from Indian Summer was a cover of the blue-eyed soul classic "What You Won't Do For Love", which in America spent a week at #3 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and peaked at #55 on the pop Hot 100, while in their native UK it scored another top-20 hit at #15. Lastly, the midtempo track "Still In Love" stalled under the British top-40 at #43. A greatest hits set, Kings and Queens, recapped their career up to 1993, with a cover of Smokey Robinson's "Tracks Of My Tears" reaching #16 in Britain, followed by a remix of the duo's earlier single "We Close Our Eyes" which nicked the top-40 at #40 in the UK. The pair split shortly after, with Cox pursuing a solo career. His self-titled solo album Peter Cox in 1997 spun off three top-40 singles in the UK, with "If You Walk Away" doing the best, cresting at #24. Drummie and Cox reunited as Go West for a tour in 2005, which led to their latest full-length album futurenow in 2008. Most recently they released a series of EPs, while touring in many throwback shows in the UK.
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Here's Peter and Richard live in 2004...
and again in 2017...
Up tomorrow: Country crossover group notes her tears.
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