Songotheday 11/25/18 - Silence takes over sayin' all we need to say, there's endless possibilities...
from the album Breathless (1992 Kenny G) and Through The Fire (1994 Peabo Bryson)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #25 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 7
Today's song of the day comes from soft jazz saxophonist Kenny G, whose Breathless album had already scored a top-40 pop hit in the spring of 1993 with the instrumental "Forever In Love". The second release from the record featured vocals from soul veteran Peabo Bryson, who had just come off a #1 pop hit that same spring with his song from Aladdin, "A Whole New World". "By The Time This Night Is Over", a midtempo love ballad written by Michael Bolton with song doctors Diane Warren and Andy Goldmark, put the pair back on mainstream radio...
"By The Time This Night Is Over" reached the American Top-40 in July of 1993. The song spent two weeks at #1 on Billboard magazine's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart, while scaling to #37 on their R&B genre list. Internationally, the song took two weeks at #6 in Canada, while it was a minor hit in the UK at #56. A third release from Breathless, the instrumental "Sentimental", managed to get to #72 on the pop chart yet #27 Adult Contemporary. Finally, "Even If My Heart Would Break" with singer Aaron Neville, which also appeared on the massively popular Bodyguard soundtrack, made it to #28 on that list. As for Bryson, this would be his final top-40 pop hit to speak off; he "Bubbled Under" the R&B chart in 1994 with "Why Goodbye".
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And here's Peabo live in concert with the song...
And finally, cover done by the great Johnny Mathis...
Up tomorrow: Black-ish rock-rappers are maxing up the volume!.
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