Robbed hit of the week 2/18/19 - Taylor Dayne's "Send Me A Lover"...
from the album Soul Dancing (1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #50
This week's "robbed hit" comes from dance-pop singer Taylor Dayne, whose third album Soul Dancing had landed what would turn out to be her last pop top-40 hit in the summer of 1993 with a cover of Barry White's "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love". The second single from the record would be the "power-ballad" from the record, "Send Me A Lover". Even though it may be my favorite of her ballads, she just couldn't make up from the momentum of the lead single, which maybe would've been better if it was original choice "I'll Wait"...
While "Send Me A Lover" did respectably on "easy listening" radio, climbing to #19 on the Adult Contemporary chart in Billboard magazine, the single stopped at the halfway mark on the pop Hot 100 tally in November of 1993. Internationally, the song did hit the top-40 up in Canada at #24, while just missing it in Australia at #42.
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Originally Celine Dion was going to release "Send Me A Lover" from her self-titled 1992 album, which was cut from the final tracklist. Instead, years later Dion donated the song for the Women 4 Women 2 AIDS charity benefit album, and her version made it to #23 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart...
Lastly, here's Taylor performing "Send Me A Lover" live on a TV appearance...
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