Songoftheday 10/26/18 - I gave her money I gave her time, I gave her everything inside one heart could find...
from the album Dangerous (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #14 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10
Today's song of the day comes from the "King of Pop", Michael Jackson, whose Dangerous album had already spun off five top-40 pop hits in America with "Heal The World", "Jam", "In The Closet", "Remember The Time", and the #1 smash "Black Or White". In the spring of 1993 the next release internationally was the guitar-dominated ballad "Give In To Me", featuring Slash from the hard rock band Guns N' Roses (who also played on "Black and White"). That song went to #1 in New Zealand, and hit the top ten in the UK (#2), Australia (#4), the Netherlands (#4), Spain (#6), France (#7), Switzerland (#7), Norway (#7), and Germany (#10). Meanwhile at the time a song that had already been put out before "Heal The World" as the fifth release, "Who Is It", finally came out in the U.S. and Canada. With a broodingly distinctive and percussive beat like "Billie Jean" and "In The Closet" and hurtful lyrics that some have said reference Diana Ross, the paranoiac track about being cheated on reversed the momentum of the album here this late in the game...
"Who Is It" became the sixth top-40 pop hit from Dangerous in America in May of 1993. The song also climbed to #6 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart. The remixes of the track helped it top the Dance Club Play list for a week. Internationally, the single reached the top ten in Austria (#5), Canada (#6), Ireland (#6), France (#8), Germany (#9), Belgium (#9), Norway (#10), and the UK (#10).
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Here's the stellar house music remix from the Brothers In Rhythm, which I feel surpasses the original, and topped the dance chart...
And lastly, "Who Is It" never was performed at any of Michael's concerts, but here he sings a snippet for Oprah...
Up tomorrow: Not by the hair of these metal jokesters' chinny chin chin.
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