Songoftheday 11/2/18 - Heart breaks and promises I've had more than my share, I'm tired of giving my love and gettin' nowhere...
from the album Show Me Love (1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #5 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 22
Today's song of the day comes from Robin Stone, who hails from Long Island, New York. Signed by dance music label Big Beat in the early 1990's, using the moniker Robin S. she recorded her debut single, which would become the title track of her first album in 1993. "Show Me Love", written and produced by Allan George and Fred McFarlane, who both produced Jocelyn Brown's classic club hit "Somebody Else's Guy", originally was released in 1990 to no response. Two years later, after Swedish DJ/producer StoneBridge reworked the track into an uptempo house music jam that spotlighted Robin's almost gospel-like emotional delivery as she demanded her romantic props...
"Show Me Love" became Robin S.'s first and only top-40 pop hit, reaching the top 5 in June of 1993. The song went to #7 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart, while the remixes of the track helped it top their Dance Club Play chart for a week. Internationally the song reached the top ten in Spain (#2), the UK (#6), Switzerland (#9), Belgium (#9), Sweden (#10), and Italy (#10). The track also went to #11 in Germany, #13 in the Netherlands, #14 in France, and #15 in Austria. Robin's second single, "Luv 4 Luv", was a musical copy of the StoneBridge treatment of "Show Me Love", and also topped Billboard's Dance Club Play chart, while climbing to #53 on the American pop chart and #52 on the American R&B chart. It did much better overseas, reaching the top-10 in the Netherlands (#4) and Belgium (#7), and #11 in the UK. That was followed by the ballad "What I Do Best", which got a much colder reception, stopping at #52 R&B while only "bubbling under" the pop Hot 100 at #112, and reaching the top-40 in only the Netherlands (#23) and Belgium (#36) while missing the mark in Britain (#43). The next release from her debut, "I Want To Thank You", was a gospel-themed dance track that also "bubbled under" the pop chart in the US at #103, but it did get to #10 on the American dance chart, while going to #48 in the UK and becoming her fourth straight top-40 hit in Belgium at #39. Finally, the dance jam "Back It Up" again hit the top-40 in Belgium (#37) and the Netherlands (#40), while almost getting there in Britain at #43.
Despite having five hit singles internationally from Show Me Love, it took until 1997 for Robin to re-emerge, and that was first with a remake of "Show Me Love" that went to #9 in the UK. That would be followed by her second and so far most recent album, From Now On. Lead single "It Must Be Love" returned Robin to the #1 spot on the dance chart, and into the R&B top-40 at #35, but on the pop Hot 100 it stalled down at #91 (it did get to #37 in the UK). Follow-up "Midnight", a remake of an Alison Moyet song on Yaz's Upstair's At Eric album, missed the pop and R&B charts but did get to #3 on the Dance Club Play list in Billboard. Since then, she has seen different remixes of "Show Me Love" return her to the charts in the US and abroad. Most recently, she collaborated with DJ Escape on the track "Shout It Out Loud", which went to #1 on the American dance chart in 2016.
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Here's how the original version of "Show Me Love" sounded on its indie release in 1990 before StoneBridge transformed it into a house music classic...
and here's the extended club mix from StoneBridge that topped Billboard's Dance Club Play chart in 1993...
Robin appeared live on Top Of The Pops to promote the single...
In 1997, remixes from the likes of the Lisa Marie Vocal Experience helped the song return to the top ten in the UK...
StoneBridge revamped the song again in 1999, taking it to #15 on the American club chart...
Another set of remixes, like this house music excursion by DJ Tonka, was released in 2002, and was a minor hit in Germany (#55) and the UK (#61)...
Four years later, Kerri Chandler and Diesel contributed more mixes of the song, which returned to #72 on the British singles chart...
In 2008, Stonebridge yet again revisited "Show Me Love", with the result going to #1 in the Netherlands and #24 in Belgium...
That same year, German DJ Michael Mind had a top-40 hit in his country with a rework of the song that went to #38 in Germany and #17 in France...
A year later, DJ's Steve Angello and Laidback Luke transformed a original bootleg mashup of the song with their composition "Be" into an official single, which ended up going to #11 in the UK, and #25 in both Ireland and France...
In 2011, singer Jason Derulo interpolated the chorus melody for his single "Don't Wanna Go Home", which climbed to #14 in America and #1 in the UK....
Two years later, rapper Kid Ink and singer Chris Brown also cribbed the song for their single "Show Me", which peaked at #13 on the pop Hot 100 in America...
Neo-house act Clean Bandit covered the song for their stellar New Eyes deluxe edition in 2014...
The next year, Dutch DJ/producer Sam Feldt interpolated "Show Me Love" into a new tropical house composition featuring Kimberly Ann on vocals that went to #4 in the UK and top-40 all over Europe...
That same year singer Alex Newell from Glee sang on an interesting cover from DJ Matvey Emerson...
This year, French DJ David Guetta and Dutch spinner Showtek interpolated it yet again into the new "Your Love", which climbed to #14 in Belgium and #32 in Sweden...
Finally, back to Robin S. performing the song on Dutch television...
Up tomorrow: Soul trio gets a little flustered.
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