Songoftheday 10/23/18 - We were 2gether just the other day, taking life 4 granted passing time away...

"So Alone" - Men At Large
from the album Men At Large (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #31 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 4

Today's song of the day comes from the R&B duo Men At Large, who came together in Cleveland in the early 1990s. David Tolliver and Jason Champion's act's name was a play on their size, and they released their self-titled debut album in 1992. Lead single "Use Me", a midtempo new jack swing jam, was a respectable R&B hit out of the gate, peaking at #9 in the spring of that year. Their follow-up release, "You Me", went to #29 on that list. But it would be the third song put out from the album that would go on to be the duo's biggest hit of their career. "So Alone", a ballad co-written by Gerald Levert, who helped discover the pair, would climb the soul list, then make it into the pop top-40...

"So Alone" became Men At Large's first and only charting hit on the Hot 100, reaching the top-40 in April of 1993. The song made it to #5 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart, spending almost nine months on the list. A fourth single from Men At Large, the booty-call ballad of "Um Um Good", got to #30 on the R&B list, followed by "Would You Like To Dance (With Me)", the final release from the album, which popped on to that chart at #87.

In 1994, David and Jason put out their second album, One Size Fits All. The first single from the set, "Let's Talk About It", went to #16 on the R&B chart and "bubbled under" the pop Hot 100 at #122. Their final charting hit, "Holiday" followed, peaking at #62. After a pair of unnoticed independent-release albums, Champion left for a career in gospel music, leaving Tolliver to recruit Edgar Porter.

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Here's Men At Large with mentor Gerald Levert on the Arsenio Hall show...

Up tomorrow: Dance act overrates their romance.