Songoftheday 11/14/18 - Come here tell me what you're thinking of is he real have you found another love? How long must we play this masquerade?
from the album 12 Inches Of Snow (1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #19 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 9
Today's song of the day comes from the Canadian reggae-rapper Snow, who had landed a massive left-field hit with the jailbird track "Informer", which spent seven weeks at #1 in the spring of 1993. For his follow-up the man born Darrin O'Brien released a more subdued (and more satisfying) song. "Girl I've Been Hurt", written by Snow with Edmond Leary and Shawn Moltke, was a minor-key gem about breaking up that was a good counterpart to his earlier hit, substituted his toasting with all singing...
"Girl I've Been Hurt" became Snow's second and so far last top-40 pop hit in the U.S. in June of 1993. The song also climbed to #78 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart. Internationally, the single hit #10 in Portugal, while reaching the top 40 in New Zealand (#17), Ireland (#20), Iceland (#24), Australia (#26), Canada (#28), the Netherlands (#28), Belgium (#30), and Sweden (#37). It was a minor hit in the UK, peaking at #48. A third release from 12 Inches of Snow, "Uhh In You", did manage to break to British chart at #67.
In 1995, Snow released his sophomore effort, Murder Love; while the set was ignored by pop radio, it actually grew his fanbase in the reggae community. Topping Billboard's Reggae Albums chart, it's sole charting single in Canada, "Sexy Girl", only made it to #80. Two years later, his third set, Justuss, became his third and last album to made the Reggae Albums chart at #12. But in 2000, he returned with a song, the acoustic rock of "Everybody Wants To Be Like You", that would be his highest-charting his in his Canadian home, getting to #2. He had his last hit there a couple years later with "Legal" from his Two Hands Clapping record in 2002, which scaled to #13.
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And here's the alternate cut of the video with the "boggle mix"...
Up tomorrow: teen idol needs a woman.
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