Songoftheday 8/8/18 - We could be discrete nobody have to know, we don't need no sheets we can just close the door my baby...
from the album Bobby (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #7 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 21
Today's song of the day comes from R&B "bad boy" Bobby Brown, whose third solo album apart from New Edition, Bobby, had already scored him a top-5 pop hit in the fall of 1992 with "Humpin' Around". That same time, album track "Something In Common", a duet with wife Whitney Houston, had started to appear on the R&B chart, where it would stay for 42 weeks and eventually reach the pop airplay top-40 (it'll be a future SOTD). It wasn't released as a single; that honor was given to the mid-tempo new jack swing jam "Good Enough". Written and produced by the "LaFace" team of L.A. Reid, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, and Daryl Simmons, the easy-going pledge to do better was meant as a counterpoint to the aggressive denials of "Humpin' Around"...
"Good Enough" became the second top ten hit from Bobby in December of 1992. The song climbed to #5 on Billboard's R&B chart as well. Internationally, the single reached the top-40 in New Zealand (#13), Canada (#21), the Netherlands (#36), Sweden (#38), and Australia (#39), and just missed by a hair in the UK at #41.
Up tomorrow: Acapella crooners speculate on romance.
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