Songoftheday 11/27/18 - Talkin' 'bout them times when I was by myself, I would always be lookin' for somebody else...

"If I Had No Loot" - Tony, Toni, Toné
from the album Sons Of Soul (1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #7 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 17

Today's song of the day comes from the R&B group Tony, Toni, Toné, whose second album The Revival knocked a chart "grand slam" with four #1 hits on Billboard magazine's R&B chart, with two of them reaching the pop top-40: "It Never Rains (In Southern California)" and the top ten "Feels Good". In 1993, the trio of Rafael Saadiq, D'Wayne Wiggins, and Timothy Riley returned with their third disc, Sons Of Soul. Alluding to their soul roots based on other acts before them, the disc was meant to sound more organic and less polished, like a lot of the overproduced new jack swing records that were out at the time. The first single from the set was the midtempo loose flow of "If I Had No Loot". Not aping the usual canned new jack beat prevalent at the time, the band used samples of West Coaster Ice Cube and East Coasters Boogie Down Production to set a rocking type of groove...

"If I Had No Loot" became Tony, Toni, Toné's second top ten pop hit and the highest-charting single of their career in August of 1993. The climbed to #8 on Billboard's R&B chart as well. Internationally, the track made it to #8 in New Zealand, and reached the top 40 in Australia (#12), Canada (#17), and the Netherlands (#19), while just missing the mark in the UK (#44), France (#47), and Germany (#51).

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Here's the band appearing on Robert Townsend's talk show in 1993...

And from another TV appearance to promote the single..

Up tomorrow: These Scottish lads come from "quite a bit" away.