Songoftheday 9/19/18 - If I let you come inside tomorrow will you hide? will you be there for me? when I need someone to hold...
from the album Jade To The Max (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #4 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 27
Today's song of t eh day comes from the R&B vocal trio Jade, who had landed their first top-40 pop hit in the fall of 1992 with "I Wanna Love U" from the movie Class Act. Their second single, "Don't Walk Away", written by producers Vassal Benford III and Ronald Spearman, was a mid-tempo new jack swing jam that would end up becoming the act's biggest hit single...
"Don't Walk Away" climbed all the way to the pop top five in America in March of 1993. The song spent two weeks at #2 on Billboard's R&B chart as well. Internationally, the record reached #7 in the UK, and made the top-40 in the Netherlands (#15), Ireland (#16), Sweden (#23), Austria (#25), Germany (#26), and New Zealand (#28).
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Here's Jade performing the song live on Arsenio Hall to promote the single...
...and across the ocean for Top of the Pops...
In 2004, British soul singer Davine covered "Don't Walk Away" for the movie Garfield; the resulting track climbed to #16 on the British chart...
DJ/producers Diplo and Sleepy Tom interpolated the record for their single "Be Right There" in 2015, which went to #8 in the UK and #33 on the American Dance Chart...
Lastly, back to Jade in person on TV...
Up tomorrow: Ultra-smooth alternative hip-hop group finds a resurrection.
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