Robbed hit of the week 10/28/18 - Gloria Estefan's "I See Your Smile"...

"I See You Smile" - Gloria Estefan
from the album Greatest Hits (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #48

This week's "robbed hit" comes from Cuban-American pop star Gloria Estefan, who had come off of her triumph return from her bus accident injuries with her Into The Light album in 1990, which scored her a #1 single with "Coming Out Of The Dark" and bubbly top-40 follow-up "Live For Loving You".  Two years later, she celebrated fifteen years in the business (and seven since her pop breakthrough with "Conga") with her first Greatest Hits album. With ten of her big songs added to four new recordings, it earned her another top-20 album. The first release of the new set was another inspirational ballad, "Always Tomorrow". Although that song climbed to #5 on the Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio format chart in Billboard magazine, it stalled way down at #81 on the pop Hot 100 in America. She tried again with yet another ballad, "I See Your Smile", written by friend, backup singer, and newly pop star Jon Secada ("Just Another Day") along with Miguel Morejon. This one did a bit better, justifiably, for being such a stronger song...

While "I See Your Smile" spent one week at #3 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart, it stopped just above the halfway mark on the pop Hot 100 in April of 1993. Internationally, the song did reach the top-40 in Canada at #31, while in the UK it peaked at #48, coming off a release of a "Megamix" that climbed to #8 there, one of her best showings. A third single from the Hits set in America, the house music-influenced club track "Go Away", "bubbled under" the pop chart at #103, but climbed to #4 on Billboard's Dance Club Play chart, and returned her to the British top-40 at #13 and Ireland at #22.

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Here's Gloria performing the song on Dutch TV in 1993...

In 2007, Gloria revisited "I See Your Smile" for her iTunes Originals exclusive...