robbed hit of the week 9/3/18 - Mary J. Blige's "Reminisce"...
from the album What's The 411? (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #57
This week's "robbed hit" comes from soul diva Mary J. Blige, who had scored two top-40 pop hits so far with her debut single "You Remind Me" followed by the top ten new jack swing classic "Real Love". The third release from the album was the minor-key masterpiece "Reminisce", written by producer Dave Hall and Kenny Greene, singer and member of the soul group Intro. With a sample lifted from female rapper MC Lyte, the single was the uptempo emotional peak of the album, as she sings about reconnecting with a ex-lover for a night of pleasure.
While "Reminisce" scaled all the way to #6 on Billboard's R&B chart, the single stalled in the lower half of the pop Hot 100 in December of 1992. It spent a full five months (20 weeks) on the pop chart, though, and was her first to reach the top-40 in the UK at #31. Sadly Greene, who also penned Blige's hit "Love No Limit" and came out as bisexual, passed away from AIDS in 2001.
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Here's Mary J. appearing live on In Living Color performing the song...
And lastly, her stellar take on the track on MTV Unplugged in 1993...
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