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"I Love You Period" - Dan Baird
from the album Love Songs For The Hearing Impaired (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #26 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 5

Today's song of the day comes from southern rocker Dan Baird, who had led the band Georgia Satellites to greatness in the beginning of 1987 with their roots rock of "Keep Your Hands To Yourself", which peaked at #2 on the American pop chart. Unable to recreate that success with two more subsequent albums, Baird departed for a solo career in the early 1990s. His debut solo album, Love Songs For The Hearing Impaired, held on to the same bluesy-hipster rock of the Satellites. The first single from the set, just like "Keep Your Hands...", was a sing-a-long story song about a student in love with his teacher, but being turned down grammatically. "I Love You Period", written by Terry Anderson, became his biggest solo success...

"I Love You Period" became Dan's first and only solo top-40 pop hit in America in January of 1993. The song went all the way to #5 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart. Internationally, the single hit the top-40 in the Netherlands at #17, and spent two weeks at #47 in Canada. A second single from the Love Songs album, "The One I Am", got to #13 on the Mainstream Rock list.

Four years later, Baird released Buffalo Nickel, a criminally overlooked record that remains one of my all-time favorite rock albums. After that came a set billed with his band the Sofa Kings, Redneck Savant, followed by a series of records since from Baird and Homemade Sin. His most recent solo work was in 2017, where along with a Homemade Sin album he also released his own SoLow set independently.

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Here's Dan appearing on the Letterman Show to perform the song...

And another gig on Dutch television that has much better sound...

And finally, in concert in Sweden in 2009...

Up tomorrow: The former Fab Five found the middle of the road.