Songoftheday 1/14/19 - There was a time when I was so broken hearted, love wasn't much of a friend of mine...
from the album Get A Grip (1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #12 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 20
Today's song of the day comes from the blues-rock band Aerosmith, who had led off their multi-platinum album Get A Grip with the first single "Livin' On The Edge" which reached the pop top twenty in the summer of 1993. Soon after, the album cut "Eat The Rich" hit the Mainstream Rock radio format chart, eventually climbing to #5 (it was a single in the UK, peaking at #34). The second true physical single released from Get A Grip would be the power-ballad "Cryin'". Written by lead singer Steven Tyler with lead guitarist Joe Perry and song doctor Taylor Rhodes, the track sported their first video to star Alicia Silverstone, who would be identified with the band as much as anything else during that period, though I'm not sure how much the suicide plot in this would fly these days...
"Cryin'" became the second top-40 pop hit from Get A Grip in October of 1993. The song was the band's fifth song to top Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart, spending six weeks on top. Internationally, the single topped the chart in Norway, and reached the top ten in Sweden (#3), Switzerland (#4), the Netherlands (#5), Austria (#5), France (#6), Germany (#7), Canada (#8), and Belgium (#8). It also went to #17 in the UK. "Cryin'" was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1994 for Best Rock Song, losing out to "Runaway Train" from Soul Asylum.
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Aerosmith appeared on Letterman to promote the single...
Here's the band in concert in the Netherlands performing the song...
And lastly, at Rock In Rio in 2017..
Up tomorrow: Two singers are sleepless in Seattle over this golden oldie.
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