Songoftheday 12/2/18 - Just ask and I'll do I'll do it for you, there'll be no more games that we'll play...

"Girl U For Me"/"Lose Control" - Silk
from the album Lose Control (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #26 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 6

Today's song of the day, or rather songs of the day, come from the soul vocal group Silk, who had landed a massive hit with the second single from their debut album, "Freak Me". which topped Billboard magazine's pop chart for two weeks in the spring of 1993. The third single from the record would be "Girl U For Me", a ballad written by producer and artist in his own right Keith Sweat and Roy Murray, and was the polar opposite of the sexual and provocative last release, promising more fidelity than fellatio...

"Girl U For Me" climbed in to the American top-40 in July of 1993, but as it was doing so, the "B-side" of the single, the title track "Lose Control", was also getting major airplay on R&B and pop stations, so much so that it ended up charting as a "double-A Side" single, combining the airplay stats from both songs. "Lose Control" was also written by Sweat and Murray along with keyboardist Gary Jenkins, and found a middle ground between the sensuousness of "Freak Me" and the romance of "Girl U For Me", but this time their affection is towards a lady whose already taken. Personally, I think "Lose Control is the stronger song of the pair.

With "Lose Control" adding enough "airplay points" to place at #48 on Billboard's airplay chart on its own, the combined single became Silk's second top-40 pop hit in July of 1993. The song saw "Girl U For Me" climb to #6 on the R&B chart, and "Lose Control" going to #4. Internationally, the former song reached the top-40 in New Zealand at #30, and was a minor hit in the UK at #67.

A fourth release from the record, "It Had To Be You", missed the pop chart (it "bubbled under" the pop Hot 100 at #109), and even didn't make the R&B top-40, stalling at #45. Meanwhile, another track from Lose Control, the uptempo new jack swing of "Baby It's You", became the group's highest-charting success in the UK, peaking at #44.

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Here's the group performing the song live with just a piano for a TV appearance...