Songoftheday 9/30/18 - Well I begin the weekend with a groove, roll about eight deep now what's my next move...
from the album Close To You (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #37 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 1
Today's song of the day comes from rapper Father MC, who had landed one of the first hits for the up and coming Uptown label, promoted by Puff Daddy, with the Cheryl Lynn-sampling "I'll Do 4 U" which reached the pop top 40 in the spring of 1991. A year later, Timothy Brown released a sophomore album under the Father MC name, Close To You. The lead single, "One Nite Stand", which featured Mary J. Blige (who had also sung on "I'll Do 4 U), climbed to #22 on Billboard's R&B chart, but only "bubbled under" their pop Hot 100 at #111. With the second release, he went to sampling another classic disco anthem, this time Chic's "Good Times", which has already been rap's go-to for years since "Rapper's Delight" in the 1980s. The record, "Everything's Gonna Be Alright", featured R&B group Jodeci singing the chorus, which certainly helped exposure, since they also appeared in the video (as opposed to "One Nite Stand", where nameless models lipsynched Blige's parts)...
"Everything's Gonna Be Alright" became Father MC's second and final top-40 pop hit in February of 1993. The song climbed to #24 on Billboard's R&B chart as well. Internationally, the single was a minor hit in New Zealand at #43.
Later that year, Brown returned as just "Father" for his third album Sex Is Law. The first single from the set, "69", which climbed to #51 on the R&B chart and "bubbled under" the pop hot 100 at #102. That was followed by his most recent American chart success when "I Beeped You" slipped on to the R&B list at #91. In 1995, the rapper (back as Father MC) slipped on to the British chart at #97 with "Hey How Ya Doin'". Although he tried to get more exposure posing in Playgirl magazine, that would be his last big success - his most recent album, Fam Body, came out in 2010...
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Here's Father appearing on the Uptown Comedy Club TV show in 1992..
Up tomorrow: Saxy man is eternally romantic.
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