Songoftheday 11/7/18 - I hear you're taking the town again, havin' a good time with all your good-time friends...
from the album Exposé (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #8 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 21
Today's song of the day comes from the freestyle dance music trio Exposé, whose first single after the replacement of Gioia Bruno by Kelly Moneymaker, "I Wish The Phone Would Ring", granted them their ninth top-40 pop hit at the end of 1992. Their follow-up single would be the soft ballad "I'll Never Get Over You (Getting Over Me)". Written by song doctor supreme Diane Warren, and produced by Guy Roche (who helmed some of Celine Dion's earlier work), the track featured Jeannette Jurado on lead vocals and hired the same saxophonist, Steven Grove, that played on their biggest pop hit "Seasons Change" (Sorry, the original music video so far hasn't made it to YouTube yet)...
"I'll Never Get Over You" became Expose's tenth and so far final top-40 pop hit in America in July of 1993. The song also spent a week at #1 on Billboard magazine's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart. Internationally, the record peaked at #16 in Canada and was a minor hit in the UK at #75. The third single from the record was "As Long As I Can Dream", another ballad and the first hit single release with member Ann Curless on lead vocals; it went to #55 in the U.S. (it climbed to #21 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart) and almost made the top-40 in Canada at #41. A fourth and final single from the album, "In Walked Love", a midtempo number also sung by Curless, stopped at #84 on the American pop chart, #17 on the AC chart, and #49 in Canada.
In 1995, the group issued a Greatest Hits album to close the chapter of their time on Arista Records. New track "I'll Say Goodbye For The Two Of Us", from the Free Willy movie, "bubbled under" the American pop Hot 100 in the beginning of the following year, while a remake of the club classic "I Specialize In Love" was a moderately successful hit on the Dance chart at #6. Since then, the three continue to perform in various "freestyle retro" shows, with Bruno rejoining the group after recovering from the illness that sidelined her voice for a while.
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Here's the group performing the song live for TV in 1993...
And finally, Bruno, Curless, and Jurado in concert in 2015...
Up tomorrow: R&B group saying you're pretty much unwanted.
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